Rzuchów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Koło |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Dąbie |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 52.1167°N 61°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | PKL |
Rzuchów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbie, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) north-west of Dąbie, 110NaN0 south-east of Koło, and 1270NaN0 east of the regional capital Poznań.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the forest of Rzuchów was the site of German massacres of Poles, who were previously imprisoned in the nearby town of Koło (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2] On 11 November 1939 the German police murdered 80 people there.[2]
The Polish A2 motorway runs near Rzuchów, south of the village.