Lubanie is a village in Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Lubanie __NOTOC__ Gmina Lubanie is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Lubanie, which lies approximately north-west of Włocławek and sout ...

. It lies approximately north-west of

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and south-east of Toruń. It is located in the region of Kuyavia.

History

During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1939–1940, the occupiers expelled the entire population of Lubanie. Houses and farms of expelled

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were handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy. The Poles were either deported to the

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in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland or enslaved as

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of German colonists in the area. A newborn child of one of the families died during the deportation.Wardzyńska, p. 177

Transport

There is a train station in Lubanie. The

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and National road 91 run nearby, west of the village.

References

Villages in Włocławek County {{Włocławek-geo-stub