Sadki is a village in
Nakło County,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It is the seat of the
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
(administrative district) called
Gmina Sadki
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Gmina Sadki is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sadki, which lies approximately west of Nakło nad Notecią and west of ...
. It lies approximately west of
Nakło nad Notecią and west of
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
.
History
The area formed part of Poland since the establishment of the state in the 10th century. Sadki was a royal village, administratively located in the Nakło County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship Kalisz Voivodeship may also refer to:
*Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)
*Kalisz Voivodeship (1816–1837)
The Kalisz Voivodeship was a voivodeship of the Congress Poland, that existed from 1816 to 1837. Its capital was Kalisz. It was established o ...
in the
Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. The village was annexed by
Prussia in the late-18th-century
Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...
, and was also part of
Germany from 1871. Following
World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the village.
During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), the local forest was the site of executions of 86
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...
from Sadki and other nearby villages, perpetrated by the
SS and ''
Selbstschutz'' in October and November 1939 as part of the ''
Intelligenzaktion''.
Sports
The local
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club is GLZS Sadki.
It competes in the lower leagues.
Notable people
* Rev.
Henryk Malak (1912–1987), Polish Roman Catholic priest arrested by the Nazis and incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
References
Villages in Nakło County
Sites of World War II massacres of Poles
Intelligenzaktion massacre locations
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