Polichno | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Nakło |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Nakło nad Notecią |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 53.1167°N 50°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | CNA |
Polichno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nakło nad Notecią, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) south-west of Nakło nad Notecią and 310NaN0 west of Bydgoszcz. It is located in the ethnographic region of Pałuki.
Polichno was a royal village, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]
During the German occupation (World War II), in October 1939, the German Selbstschutz carried out a massacre of Poles from Polichno and nearby Rozwarzyn in the local forest as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3]