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Modliszewo

Coordinates: 52°36′16″N 17°35′58″E / 52.60444°N 17.59944°E / 52.60444; 17.59944
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Modliszewo
Village
Volunteer fire department in Modliszewo
Volunteer fire department in Modliszewo
Modliszewo is located in Poland
Modliszewo
Modliszewo
Coordinates: 52°36′16″N 17°35′58″E / 52.60444°N 17.59944°E / 52.60444; 17.59944
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyGniezno
GminaGniezno
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPGN
Highways
Voivodeship roads

Modliszewo [mɔdlʲiˈʂɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniezno, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Gniezno and 52 km (32 mi) north-east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

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As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Modliszewo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in nearby Gniezno, and afterwards deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]

Transport

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The Polish S5 highway runs nearby, east of the village.

References

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  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: Instytut Historii Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 172. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.