Tur, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Explained

Tur
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Kuyavian-Pomeranian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Nakło
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Szubin
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:1337
Pushpin Map:Poland
Coordinates:53.0833°N 61°W
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:CNA
Population Total:1040

Tur is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szubin, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) north of Szubin, 120NaN0 south-east of Nakło nad Notecią, and 190NaN0 west of Bydgoszcz. It is situated on the Noteć river.

History

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1337, when it was part of the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland. Tur was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans expelled several Polish families from the village.[3] Poles were mostly deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3] In December 1940, the Germans relocated the Stalag XXI-B prisoner-of-war camp for Allied (mostly British) POWs from Szubin to Tur.[4] [5] In October 1941, the camp was dissolved and the POWs were relocated to the Stalag XXI-D in Poznań and its forced labour subcamps.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS)  - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal). 2008-06-01. Polish.
  2. Book: . Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany. 2017. Polish. Warsaw. Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 1b.
  3. Book: Wardzyńska, Maria. 2017. Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945. Polish. Warsaw. IPN. 241. 978-83-8098-174-4.
  4. Web site: POW Camps in Szubin (Schubin/Altburgund). Polish-American Foundation for the Commemoration of POW Camps in Szubin. 8 August 2021.
  5. Book: Daniluk. Jan. Winiecki. Mariusz. Parsons. Alan. Stalag XXI B/H Thure. Jeńcy wojenni w Turze w latach II wojny światowej. 2020. pl,en. Szubin. Polsko-Amerykańska Fundacja Upamiętnienia Obozów Jenieckich w Szubinie. 15, 49. 978-83-958269-0-0.
  6. Daniluk; Winiecki, p. 22, 56