Gorzuchowo (german: Gottersfeld) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Stolno __NOTOC__ Gmina Stolno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Stolno, which lies approximately south-east of Chełmno, north of Toruń, ...

, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Stolno, east of Chełmno, and north of Toruń. It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.

History

On September 2, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, the German '' Luftwaffe'' bombed the local train station, killing 39 people, including railway workers and civilians (men, women and children). During the subsequent

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, Gorzuchowo was one of the sites of executions of

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, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the '' Intelligenzaktion''. In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to transit camps in the region, while their houses and farms were handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.

Transport

The Voivodeship road 543 passes through the village, and the

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runs nearby, east of the village. There is also a train station in Gorzuchowo.

Notable residents

* Józef Haller (1873–1960), Polish general

References

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