Podlesie Kościelne Explained

Podlesie Kościelne
Settlement Type:Village
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Greater Poland
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Wągrowiec
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Mieścisko
Coordinates:52.7333°N 35°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Podlesie Kościelne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mieścisko, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 11km (07miles) south-east of Wągrowiec and 460NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Poznań.

Podlesie was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]

During the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, the Wehrmacht carried out a massacre of nine Poles in the village.[3]

There is a historic wooden church of Saint Anne from 1712 in the village.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.
  2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2017, p. 1b (in Polish)
  3. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 95 (in Polish)