Brzozowo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Chełmno |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Kijewo Królewskie |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 53.3167°N 44°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | CCH |
Brzozowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kijewo Królewskie, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north of Kijewo Królewskie, 60NaN0 south of Chełmno, 340NaN0 north of Toruń, and 370NaN0 north-east of Bydgoszcz. It is located in the Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania.
During the German occupation (World War II), in 1939, local Polish teachers were murdered by the Germans in a massacre of Poles committed in nearby Klamry as part of the Intelligenzaktion, while the sołtys of Brzozowo (head of local administration) Władysław Kroning was among Poles massacred by the Germans on October 5–6, 1939 in the Barbarka forest within today's city limits of Toruń.[2]