Kowanówko
Kowanówko [kɔvaˈnufkɔ] (German: Rundhausen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oborniki, within Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Oborniki and 31 km (19 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań.
Kowanówko | |
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Village | |
 Hospital administration building in Kowanówko | |
  Kowanówko  Kowanówko | |
| Coordinates: 52°40′N 16°50′E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Oborniki |
| Gmina | Oborniki |
| First mentioned | 1356 |
| Population | 1,358 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | POB |
The village has a population of 1,358.
History
The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1356, when it was part of the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland. Kowanówko, in the past also known as Chowanówko, was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2] In 1857, Józef Żelazko established a psychiatric hospital in the village.[3]
After the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. A transit camp for Poles expelled from the county in 1939 was operated by Germany in the village.[4] The expellees were held in the camp for several days, where they were robbed of money and valuables, and then they were deported in freight trains to Sokołów Podlaski in the General Government (German-occupied central Poland).[4]
References
- "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
- Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IV (in Polish). Warszawa. 1883. p. 516.
- Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 154. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
