Podmokle Wielkie is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Babimost __NOTOC__ Gmina Babimost is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. Its seat is the town of Babimost, which lies approximately north-east of Zielona Góra. The gmina covers a ...

, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately north of Babimost, north-east of Zielona Góra, and south-east of

Gorzów Wielkopolski Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler

Mieszko I Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was the first ruler of Poland and the founder of the first independent Polish state, the Duchy of Poland. His reign stretched from 960 to his death and he was a member of the Piast dynasty, a son of Siemomysł and ...

in the 10th century. Podmokle Wielkie was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the Germans arrested a local Polish school teacher, who was then deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and killed there (see '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). Several young Poles, wanting to avoid being drafted into the '' Wehrmacht'' and fighting against Poland, fled the village.Cygański, p. 50 After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the war, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.

References

Villages in Zielona Góra County {{ZielonaGóra-geo-stub