Goślinowo

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

52°35′N 17°38′E / 52.583°N 17.633°E / 52.583; 17.633Country

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Voivodeship roads

Goślinowo [ɡɔɕliˈnɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniezno, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Gniezno and 53 km (33 mi) north-east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

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.^[2]

Transport

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

Notable people

Ksawery Zakrzewski (1876–1915), Polish physician, independence activist, co-founder of Polish scouting in Greater Poland, director of the "Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society in Poznań
Eugeniusz Czajka (1927–2011), Polish Olympic field hockey player

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ 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.