Rakowo is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Wyszogród
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Gmina Wyszogród is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Wyszogród, which lies approximately south-east of Płock and west of Warsaw.
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, within
Płock County
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Płock County ( pl, powiat płocki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refo ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. Th ...
, in east-central Poland.
The village is laid out in an east–west line, between the Vistula River (to the south) and the Zakroczym-Płock road (to the north). It is west of the village of
Drwały.
Rakowo was first mentioned in 1426.
Olendrzy, German settlers, settled there at the end of the 18th century. In 1888, it had 25 houses, 311 residents and 711 morgens of land (including 107 morgens of wasteland). It also had a watermill. As is typical of Olender villages, the majority of homesteads are situated on man-made hillocks. Several examples of traditional buildings remain, as well as remnants of the Lutheran (Evangelical Augsbergian) cemetery.
[Smałygin, pp. 207-209.]
References
Villages in Płock County
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