Białośliwie Explained

Białośliwie
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Greater Poland
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Piła
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Białośliwie
Established Title2:First mentioned
Established Date2:1216
Coordinates:53.1°N 25°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Population Total:2600

Białośliwie is a village in Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Białośliwie.[1] It lies approximately 28km (17miles) east of Piła and 800NaN0 north of the regional capital Poznań.

The oldest known mention of Białośliwie comes from 1216, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, dozens of local Polish inhabitants were murdered by the Germans in mass executions carried out in Świerkówiec, Paterek and in the woods on the Noteć river.[2]

The village has a pre-war Catholic church and two historic railway stations: regular and narrow-gauge.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  2. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, pp. 92, 163–164 (in Polish)