Koźle, Greater Poland Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Koźle (disambiguation).
Koźle
Village
Koźle is located in Poland
Koźle
Koźle
Coordinates: 52°35′N 16°24′E / 52.583°N 16.400°E / 52.583; 16.400
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountySzamotuły
GminaSzamotuły
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPSZ

Koźle [ˈkɔʑlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szamotuły, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Szamotuły and 41 km (25 mi) north-west of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Koźle was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), inhabitants of Koźle were among Poles massacred by the Germans on November 9, 1939, in Mędzisko and on December 8, 1939, in Bukowiec, as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] In 1939 and 1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to ethnic Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] Poles expelled in 1939 were briefly held in a transit camp in Wronki, where they were stripped of any valuables, and then deported to the Radom District of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while those expelled in 1942 were enslaved as forced labour and sent either to Germany or to new German colonists in the county.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ 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. 1a.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 199, 211–212.
  4. ^ a b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 161, 351. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.


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