| Kadłub | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Wieluń |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Wieluń |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Coordinates: | 51.1672°N 18.5522°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | EWI |
| Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
Kadłub is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wieluń, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) south of Wieluń and 940NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. By the 14th century, there was a Catholic parish in the village.[2] The parish covered Kadłub along with two nearby villages Popowice and Grębień.[2] Kadłub was a private church village of the Archdiocese of Gniezno until 1555, and of the Gniezno Archcathedral Chapter afterwards,[2] administratively located in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. In 1827, Kadłub had a population of 251.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[3] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] The village was renamed to Rumfeck in attempt to erase traces of Polish origin.