Gorzkowice
Gorzkowice is a village in Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gorzkowice. It lies approximately south of Piotrków Trybunalski and south of the regional capital Łódź. The village has a population of 3,310. History The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1335. The name comes from an Old Polish male name Gorzek. It was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was a town from 1494 to 1508. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In September 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported over 13,000 Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków, where they were initially imprisoned, to Gorzkowice. Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women w ...
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Gmina Gorzkowice
__NOTOC__ Gmina Gorzkowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Gorzkowice, which lies approximately south of Piotrków Trybunalski and south of the regional capital Łódź. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 8,631. The current Mayor is Alojzy Włodarczyk. The Deputy Mayor is Robert Kukulski. History The earliest traces of settlement in the Gorzkowice commune date back to nearly 3000 years ago, while the earliest mention comes from the Middle Ages, when the Archbishop Janisław gave the local parish church the tithes from the surrounding villages. In 1414, the number of people in the village was estimated at 720. Villages Gmina Gorzkowice contains the villages and settlements of Białek, Borzęcin, Bujnice, Bujnice ZR, Bujniczki, Bukowina, Cieszanowice, Czerno, Daniszewice, Góry Rdułtowskie, Gorzędów-Kolonia, Gorzkowice, Gorzko ...
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