| Leszno | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kutno |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Kutno |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Coordinates: | 52.1831°N 19.3233°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | EKU |
| Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
Leszno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kutno, within Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) south-west of Kutno and 460NaN0 north of the regional capital Łódź.
The village was granted by Archbishop of Gniezno Bogumilus to the Cistercians in the 12th century.[2] In 1827, the village had a population of 287, which by the 1880s grew to 306.[3]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1941, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] Expelled Poles were enslaved as forced labour of new German colonists in the region.[4]