Goślinowo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Gniezno
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Gmina Gniezno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Gniezno, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The gmina cover ...
, within
Gniezno County,
Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Gniezno and north-east of the regional capital
Poznań.
History
During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), in 1939, the occupiers carried out
expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in nearby Gniezno, and afterwards 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, while their houses and farms were handed over to
German colonists as part of the ''
Lebensraum'' policy.
Transport
The Polish
S5 highway runs nearby, west of the village.
Notable people
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Ksawery Zakrzewski
Ksawery Faustyn Ignacy Zakrzewski (15 February 1876 in Wełna Goślinowo.html" ;"title="ow Goślinowo">ow Goślinowo– 18 November 1915 in Poznań) was a Polish physician, independence activist, director of Poznań's Polish Sokol movement, Polish ...
(1876–1915), Polish physician, independence activist, co-founder of
Polish scouting
The Scouting and Guiding movement in Poland ( pl, Harcerstwo) consists of about twelve independent organizations with an overall membership of about 160,000 Scouts and Guides. The largest organization by membership is Polish Scouting and Guiding ...
in Greater Poland, director of the
"Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society in Poznań
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Eugeniusz Czajka
Eugeniusz Czajka (March 25, 1927 – February 5, 2011) was a Polish field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Goślinowo, Gniezno County. He was part of the Polish field hockey team, which competed in the Fie ...
(1927–2011), Polish Olympic field hockey player
References
Villages in Gniezno County
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