| Wersk | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Coordinates: | 53.4086°N 17.2736°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Złotów |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Zakrzewo |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 220 |
| Registration Plate: | PZL |
Wersk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zakrzewo, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1]
As of 1467, the territory of Wersk was still forested,[2] but soon, by the 16th century, the village had developed. Wersk was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. In 1885, it had a population of 281.[2]
In 1939, the Germans persecuted local Polish activists, who were either expelled or arrested and afterwards executed (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[4] [5] After Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.