Landmarks of the village are the Sułkowski Palace, the Karol Kurpiński Museum dedicated to the Polish composer, who was born in the village in 1785, and the Baroque Holy Trinity church, where Kurpiński was baptized.
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945 and local Poles were subjected to various atrocities. On October 21, 1939, the German Einsatzgruppe VI carried out a public execution of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] It was one of many massacres of Poles committed by Germany on October 20–23 across the region in attempt to pacify and terrorize the Polish population.[4] In late 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[5] Expelled Poles were initially held in a transit camp in Łódź, where they were stripped of any valuable items, and then enslaved as forced labour or deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[5]
Transport
There is a railway station in the village.
Sports
The Polish Cyclo-cross Championships were held in Włoszakowice in 2021.
^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. 1a.
^Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 198.
^Grochowina, Sylwia (2017). Cultural policy of the Nazi occupying forces in the Reich district Gdańsk–West Prussia, the Reich district Wartheland, and the Reich district of Katowice in the years 1939–1945. Toruń. p. 87. ISBN978-83-88693-73-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ abWardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 211. ISBN978-83-8098-174-4.
