Kołaczkowo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Witkowo, within
Gniezno County,
Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Witkowo
Witkowo (; is a town in Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, located southeast of Poznań.
Witkowo is one of the production sites of the Greater Poland liliput cheese (''ser liliput wielkopolski''), a traditional regional Polish c ...
, south-east of
Gniezno, and east of the regional capital
Poznań.
During the
German occupation
German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...
(
World War II), in December 1939, the Germans
expelled many Polish families from Kołaczkowo to the so-called
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 ...
, and their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the ''
Heim ins Reich
The ''Heim ins Reich'' (; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler before and during World War II, beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler's initiative was to convince all ''Volksdeutsche'' (ethnic Germans) wh ...
'' policy.
[Maria Wardzyńska (2017) ''Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945'', IPN, Warsaw, p. 171 (in Polish)]
There is a historic manor house in Kołaczkowo with an adjacent park and an old distillery.
References
Villages in Gniezno County
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