Kolno | |
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: | Chełmno |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 53.4°N 48°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | CCH |
Kolno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) north-east of Chełmno, 420NaN0 north of Toruń, and 460NaN0 north-east of Bydgoszcz. It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Kolno was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2]