Strzałkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Strzałkowo.

Strzałkowo
Village
Railway station
Strzałkowo
Coordinates: 52°18′36″N 17°49′5″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Słupca
Gmina	Strzałkowo
Population	4,953
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PSL
National roads
Website	http://www.strzalkowo.pl

Strzałkowo [stʂau̯ˈkɔvɔ] is a village in Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Strzałkowo.^[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Słupca and 63 km (39 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Monument to insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising of 1918-1919 and victims of Nazi Germany in World War II

Strzałkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County^[2] in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.^[3] It was owned by the Strzałkowski, Węsierski and Korytowski families.^[2] In the late 19th century, it had a population of 462.^[2]

During World War I, it was the location of a German prisoner-of-war camp for tens of thousands of Allied POWs of various nationalities.^[4]

During the World War II German occupation, in November 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles from Strzałkowo.^[5] Expelled Poles were deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in German-occupied southern Poland, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[5]

Cuisine

The officially protected traditional food originating from Strzałkowo is local butter (Masło ze Strzałkowa), as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.^[6]

Sports

The local football team is Polanin Strzałkowo.^[7] It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable people

• Jerzy Młokosiewicz [pl] (1923–1995), Home Army soldier and participant of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, Polish deputy minister of finance
• Leon Michalski [pl] (1915–1979), officer of the Polish Army and the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II
• Łukasz Kuropaczewski (born 1981), Polish guitarist

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI (in Polish). Warsaw. 1890. p. 449.
3. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1b.
4. "I wojna światowa". slupca.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
5. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 209. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
6. "Masło ze Strzałkowa". Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
7. "KS Polanin Strzałkowo - Strona oficjalna" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.