Leszno, Kutno County

For other places with the same name, see Leszno.

Leszno
Village
The manor house, 19th century.
Leszno
Coordinates: 52°10′59″N 19°19′24″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Łódź
County	Kutno
Gmina	Kutno
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	EKU
National roads

Leszno [ˈlɛʂnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kutno, within Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Kutno and 46 km (29 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.

History

The village was granted by Archbishop of Gniezno Bogumilus to the Cistercians in the 12th century.^[2] In 1827, the village had a population of 287, which by the 1880s grew to 306.^[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1941, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[4] Expelled Poles were enslaved as forced labour of new German colonists in the region.^[4]

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 XV Część II (in Polish). Warsaw. 1902. p. 223.
3. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V (in Polish). Warsaw. 1884. p. 177.
4. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 310. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.