Drzymałowo is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Rakoniewice __NOTOC__ Gmina Rakoniewice is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Rakoniewice, which lies approximately south-west of Grodzisk ...

, within

Grodzisk Wielkopolski County __NOTOC__ Grodzisk Wielkopolski County ( pl, powiat grodziski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Pol ...

Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 o ...

, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of

Rakoniewice Rakoniewice (german: Rakwitz) is a town in Grodzisk Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,576 inhabitants (2006). History As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed p ...

, south-west of

Grodzisk Wielkopolski Grodzisk Wielkopolski (german: Grätz) is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolskie), with a population of 13,703 (2006). It is south-west of Poznań, the voivodeship capital. It is the seat of Grodzisk Wielkopolski ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

. Throughout its history the village has been renamed several times. Before the 1793 partition, it was called ''Podgradowice''. Then ''Pogradowitz'' when the area was part of the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

. In 1905, the name of the village was officially changed to ''Kaisertreu''. In 1919 after the territory was restored to Poland, the village reverted to its old name ''Podgradowice''. In 1939, the village was rechristened ''Drzymałowo'' in honour of local folk hero

Michał Drzymała Michał Drzymała (; 13 September 1857 – 25 April 1937) was a Polish peasant living in the Greater Poland region (or the Grand Duchy of Posen) under Prussian rule. He is a Polish folk hero because, after he was denied permission to build a hous ...

, but shortly thereafter the Germans annexed the territory and the village again returned to Germany. The Name was changed to ''Volkstreu'' to avoid the word ''Kaiser'' . After the war the name ''Drzymałowo'' once again became official.

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Villages in Grodzisk Wielkopolski County {{GrodziskWielkopolski-geo-stub