Bocheń is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Łowicz __NOTOC__ Gmina Łowicz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Łowicz, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an are ...

, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Łowicz and northeast of the regional capital, Łódź. The village has a population of 321.

History

Bocheń dates back to

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

or early medieval times. The village was mentioned in a medieval document from 1359. During the invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 16, 1939, the Germans murdered 15

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farmers in Bocheń.Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', IPN, Warszawa, 2009, p. 96 (in Polish) 12 Polish farmers from Bocheń and nearby Guźnia were also murdered that day by Wehrmacht troops near the Rydwan lake, south of Bocheń and Guźnia (see also '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). During the German occupation of Poland the village was an important center of Polish resistance, and even underground Polish press was issued there.

Notable people

Adam of Łowicz Adam of Łowicz (also "Adam of Bocheń" and "''Adamus Polonus''"; born in Bocheń, near Łowicz, Poland; died 7 February 1514, in Kraków, Poland) was a professor of medicine at the University of Krakow, its rector in 1510–1511, a humanist, write ...

(died in 1514), Polish Renaissance humanist, writer and philosopher, professor of medicine at the University of Kraków, and rector of the University in 1510–1511

References

Central Statistical Office (GUS) ''Population: Size and Structure by Administrative Division''
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Villages in Łowicz County {{Łowicz-geo-stub