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Place in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Nowy Tomyśl
Nowy Tomyśl town hallNowy Tomyśl town hall
Flag of Nowy TomyślFlagCoat of arms of Nowy TomyślCoat of arms
Nowy Tomyśl is located in PolandNowy TomyślNowy Tomyśl
Coordinates: 52°19′0″N 16°8′0″E / 52.31667°N 16.13333°E / 52.31667; 16.13333
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyNowy Tomyśl
GminaNowy Tomyśl
Area
 • Total5.2 km (2.0 sq mi)
Elevation70 m (230 ft)
Population
 • Total15,225
 • Density2,900/km (7,600/sq mi)
Postal code64-300, 64-301
Vehicle registrationPNT
Voivodeship roads
Websitehttp://www.nowytomysl.pl

Nowy Tomyśl is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nowy Tomyśl County. The population is 15,627 (2004).

History

Museum of Basketry in Nowy Tomyśl

The town has a long tradition of wickerwork. In the main town square stands a wicker basket woven in 2006, measuring 17 metres (56 ft) long, 9 m wide and 7.7 m high, entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest basket. The town also has a Museum of Basketry and Hop Growing, which is one of the branches of the National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa. Next to the museum is a small zoo.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. In December 1939, the German gendarmerie carried out the first expulsions of Poles, including families of intelligentsia, activists and owners of workshops, bakeries and restaurants, which were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. Expelled Poles were deported to a transit camp in Młyniewo, and then to the Radom District in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland. In January 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of various nationalities from the dissolved camp in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp passed through the town.

Since 2012, Nowy Tomyśl has been the site of one of the tallest wind turbines in the world.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
  2. "Ewakuacja piesza". Muzeum Martyrologiczne w Żabikowie (in Polish). Retrieved 9 December 2023.

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