Guźnia is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Łowicz __NOTOC__ Gmina Łowicz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Łowicz, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an are ...

, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Łowicz and north-east of the regional capital Łódź. It is located within the historic region of Mazovia.

History

Guźnia dates back to the 14th century, and was first mentioned in 1367. Its name is derived from the Old Polish word ''gozd'' (" forest"). Guźnia was a private church village within the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown, owned by the Archdiocese of Gniezno. In the second half of the 16th century, the village was located in the administrative unit

Sochaczew Land Sochaczew Land ( pl, ziemia sochaczewska), named after the town of Sochaczew, was an administrative unit (ziemia) of the Duchy of Mazovia, Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. With its capital in Sochaczew, it belonged to Rawa ...

of the local government Rawa Voivodeship in the historical Kingdom of Poland. It belonged to the

Chruślin Chruślin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bielawy, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately east of Bielawy, Łowicz County, Bielawy, west of Łowicz, and north-east of the region ...

estate of the Archbishops of Gniezn. During the

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invasion of Poland, which started World War II, on September 16, 1939, Wehrmacht troops murdered 12

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farmers from Guźnia and nearby

Bocheń Bocheń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łowicz, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Łowicz and northeast of the regional capital, Łódź. The village has a ...

near the Rydwan lake, south Guźnia (see also '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation'').Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 96 (in Polish) There is a Polish military cemetery in the village.

References

Villages in Łowicz County {{Łowicz-geo-stub