Malenin, Greater Poland Voivodeship Explained

See also: Malenin, Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Malenin
Settlement Type:Village
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Greater Poland
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Gniezno
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Witkowo
Pushpin Map:Poland
Coordinates:52.4167°N 61°W
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Malenin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Witkowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) south-west of Witkowo, 160NaN0 south-east of Gniezno, and 560NaN0 east of the regional capital Poznań.

Malenin was a private church village within the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, Germans expelled Polish inhabitants of Malenin to the General Government, and their farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  2. Maria Wardzyńska, Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945, IPN, Warsaw, 2017, pp. 244–245 (in Polish)