Dąbrówka Wielkopolska is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina ZbÄ…szynek __NOTOC__
Gmina Zbąszynek is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Świebodzin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Its seat is the town of Zbąszynek, which lies approximately east of Świebodzin, north-east of Zielona Gó ...
, within
Åšwiebodzin County,
Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.
It lies approximately north of
ZbÄ…szynek
ZbÄ…szynek (; german: Neu Bentschen) is a town in western Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Åšwiebodzin County. As of 2019, it has 5,020 inhabitants.
History
The town was founded in the early 1920s when, as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, t ...
, east of
Åšwiebodzin, north-east of
Zielona Góra, and south-east of
Gorzów Wielkopolski
Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...
.
History
As part of the region of
Greater Poland
Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed ...
, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Dąbrówka was a private village of
Polish nobility
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
, administratively located in the Kościan County in the
Poznań Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province.
From 1871 to 1945, the village was part of
Germany. Despite being located in the heavily
Germanized
Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationalism went hand in hand. In ling ...
western borderland of the
Province of Posen
The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...
, it always had an ethnic Polish majority population. In 1905, 1,038 people lived in the village, of which 90.1% were
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...
and 9.7% were
Germans. Despite the protests of the Polish population, in 1919 it remained within Germany by the decision of the inter-Allied commission and was part of
Kreis Meseritz
Kreis Meseritz (''Landkreis Meseritz'' from 1939; pl, Powiat międzyrzecki) was a district in Prussia, first in the southern administrative Region of Posen within the Grand Duchy of Posen (till 1848), then the Province of Posen (till 1920), t ...
.
In 1929–1939, there was a Polish school in the village, where 3 teachers taught and 140 children attended. There was also a Polish kindergarten established in the village in 1935 with 70 children. In 1931, the Polish ''Bank Ludowy'' was founded in the village. In 1939, out of 1,287 inhabitants of the village, 986 (76.6%) were Poles. In June 1939, the
Gestapo carried out an anti-Polish operation in the village, closing down local Polish organizations, confiscating their files and funds, and expelling four leading Polish activists. On 11 September 1939, the Germans imprisoned 29 local prominent Poles, who were afterwards deported to
concentration camps.
[Cygański, p. 49] Several young Poles, wanting to avoid being drafted into the ''
Wehrmacht'' and fighting against Poland, fled the village.
[ They were later caught and executed by the Germans in occupied Poland.][Cygański, p. 50] The Germans also carried out further expulsions of Poles.[ With the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the village became again part of Poland.
]
Transport
There is a train station in the village.
References
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Villages in Åšwiebodzin County