Bojanowo Explained

Bojanowo
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Greater Poland
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Rawicz
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Bojanowo
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Maciej Dubiel
Established Title:Established
Established Date:14th century
Established Title3:Town rights
Established Date3:1638
Area Total Km2:2.34
Population As Of:30 June 2021[1]
Population Total:2895
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Coordinates:51.7°N 61°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:63-940
Area Code:+48 65
Registration Plate:PRA
Blank Name Sec2:Highways
Blank1 Name Sec2:Voivodeship roads
Website:bojanowo.pl

Bojanowo is a town in Rawicz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the seat of Gmina Bojanowo (commune). As of June 2021, it has a population of 2,895.

History

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. Bojanowo was granted town rights in 1638. It was administratively located in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. It was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After its dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia, within which it was located in the Kreis Rawitsch of Provinz Posen. Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the town.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in December 1939, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, mostly craftsmen, postal workers and intelligentsia with entire families, as well as several local Jews.[2] [3] Houses and workshops of the expellees were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[2] The Polish resistance movement was present in Bojanowo. In June 1944, the Gestapo arrested both the commander and deputy commander of the local unit of the Home Army, who were then subjected to brutal interrogations, and eventually sent to concentration camps and killed there.[4]

Sports

The local football club is Ruch Bojanowo.[5] It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable residents

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Local Data Bank. 2022-05-29. Statistics Poland. Data for territorial unit 3022014.
  2. Book: Wardzyńska, Maria. 2017. Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945. pl. Warszawa. IPN. 162. 978-83-8098-174-4.
  3. Web site: History - Jewish community before 1989 - Bojanowo - Virtual Shtetl . 2016-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160602222253/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/bojanowo/5,history/?action=view&page=1 . 2016-06-02 . dead .
  4. Book: . Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945. 1998. Poznań. pl. Instytut Zachodni. 154–155, 425–426. 83-85003-97-5.
  5. Web site: Ruch Bojanowo - strona klubu. 7 January 2023. pl.