| Witkowo | |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gniezno |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Witkowo |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1363 |
| Established Title2: | Town rights |
| Established Date2: | 1676 |
| Area Total Km2: | 8.3 |
| Population As Of: | 2006 |
| Population Total: | 7855 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Coordinates: | 52.4364°N 17.7742°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Dfb |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 62-230 |
| Registration Plate: | PGN |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
| Website: | http://www.witkowo.pl |
Witkowo is a town in Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, located southeast of Poznań.
Witkowo was first mentioned in a document from 1363. It was a private village of Polish nobility of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[1] In 1676, it was granted town rights.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. Local units of the Grey Ranks and Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa Polish resistance organizations were founded already in 1939, and the latter became part of the larger Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich organization in 1940.[2] Klemens Jan Grygiel, commander of the local unit of the Grey Ranks, and Edward Paulus, founder of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle, were arrested by the Germans in mid-1942, and eventually sentenced to death and executed in Rawicz the following year.[3]
Witkowo is one of the production sites of the Greater Poland liliput cheese (ser liliput wielkopolski), a traditional regional Polish cheese, protected as a traditional food by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.[4]