Czarnowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zławieś Wielka, within Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of

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and west of Toruń. It is located on the Vistula in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania. The main historic landmark of the village is the medieval Gothic Saint Martin church from the 13th-14th century.

History

The settlement dates back to prehistoric times. It was the location of a defensive settlement in the Iron Age, and a medieval stronghold, both of which are now protected archaeological sites. The area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. The oldest known mention of the village comes from a document of Duke Konrad I of Masovia from 1222. In 1457, Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon granted the village to the city of Toruń. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), Czarnowo was one of the sites of executions of

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, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the '' Intelligenzaktion''. The local Polish school principal was murdered by the Germans in the large massacre of Poles committed in the Barbarka forest in Toruń in 1939, also as part of the ''Intelligenzaktion''.

Education

There is a primary school in Czarnowo.

References

Populated places on the Vistula Villages in Toruń County Archaeological sites in Poland Prehistoric sites in Poland {{Toruń-geo-stub