Winiary, Kalisz

For other places with the same name, see Winiary.
Winiary
District of Kalisz
Blessed Michał Kozal church
Blessed Michał Kozal church
Winiary is located in Poland
Winiary
Winiary
Coordinates: 51°45′N 18°08′E / 51.750°N 18.133°E / 51.750; 18.133
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
County/CityKalisz
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPK, PA
National roads

Winiary [viˈɲarɨ] is a district of Kalisz, Poland,[1] located in the eastern part of the city.

The Winiary food company is based in the district.

History

Memorial at the site of a massacre of 150 Poles

The oldest known mention of Winiary dates back to 1294. Within the Kingdom of Poland, it was administratively located in the Kalisz County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

An ancient pagan cemetery was discovered in Winiary in 1890.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939–1940, Winiary was the site of German massacres of several hundreds of Poles (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). Among the victims were defenders of Kalisz, people from Winiary, Kalisz, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Ostrzeszów and other nearby settlements arrested during the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign, former insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising, merchants, entrepreneurs, teachers, school principals, doctors, railwaymen, lawyers, farmers and mayors of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Odolanów.[3][4] In 1940, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[5] In 1940, Polish spy and resistance member Alfred Nowacki, officially classified as a German, settled in Winiary, and soon founded a food processing company.[6] The factory became a focal point of the Kalisz unit of the Home Army, and Nowacki fictitiously employed his Polish underground associates there.[6] In March 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo, then subjected to brutal investigation in Łódź, and eventually sentenced to death and executed in nearby Skarszew in 1945.[6]

Transport

The Kalisz Winiary railway station is located in the district.

References

  1. ^ Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części, Dz. U., 2013, No. 200
  2. ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIII (in Polish). Warszawa. 1893. p. 548.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 92, 205–206.
  4. ^ Graf, Władysław (1992). "Ostrzeszów: obozy jenieckie okresu 1939–1940. Część 2". Zeszyty Ostrzeszowskie (in Polish). No. 16. Ostrzeszowskie Centrum Kultury. p. 30.
  5. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 261. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
  6. ^ a b c Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945 (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. 1998. pp. 385–386. ISBN 83-85003-97-5.