Strzałkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship
History
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Strzałkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was owned by the Strzałkowski, Węsierski and Korytowski families. In the late 19th century, it had a population of 462.
During World War I, it was the location of a German prisoner-of-war camp for tens of thousands of Allied POWs of various nationalities.
During the World War II German occupation, in November 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles from Strzałkowo. Expelled Poles were deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in German-occupied southern Poland, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.
Cuisine
The officially protected traditional food originating from Strzałkowo is local butter (Masło ze Strzałkowa), as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.
Sports
The local football team is Polanin Strzałkowo. It competes in the lower leagues.
Notable people
- Jerzy Młokosiewicz (1923–1995), Home Army soldier and participant of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, Polish deputy minister of finance
- Leon Michalski (1915–1979), officer of the Polish Army and the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II
- Łukasz Kuropaczewski (born 1981), Polish guitarist
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI (in Polish). Warsaw. 1890. p. 449.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.
- ^ "I wojna światowa". slupca.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 209. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
- ^ "Masło ze Strzałkowa". Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "KS Polanin Strzałkowo - Strona oficjalna" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.