Niemieczkowo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Oborniki |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Oborniki |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1361 |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 52.6497°N 16.6994°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | POB |
Niemieczkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oborniki, within Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) west of Oborniki and 320NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Poznań.
The oldest known mention of Niemieczkowo comes from 1361, when it was owned by local nobleman Jarota Niemieczkowski of Przosna coat of arms.[2] Niemieczkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[3] It was owned by the Niemieczkowski and Raczyński families.[2] There is a historic manor house of local nobility in the village.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), inhabitants of Niemieczkowo were among Poles massacred by the Germans on November 9, 1939, in Mędzisko as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4]