Chotów is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Mokrsko __NOTOC__ Gmina Mokrsko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Mokrsko, which lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional cap ...

, within

Wieluń County __NOTOC__ Wieluń County ( pl, powiat wieluński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of

Mokrsko Mokrsko is a village in Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Mokrsko. It lies approximately south-west of Wieluń and south-west of the regional capita ...

, west of Wieluń, and south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler

Mieszko I Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was the first ruler of Poland and the founder of the first independent Polish state, the Duchy of Poland. His reign stretched from 960 to his death and he was a member of the Piast dynasty, a son of Siemomysł and ...

in the 10th century. The Renaissance Saint Martin church was built in 1619. In 1827, Chotów had a population of 411. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were either enslaved as

forced labour Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

in the region or deported to the

General Government The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...

in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland. Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.Wardzyńska, p. 255

References

Villages in Wieluń County {{Wieluń-geo-stub