Sicienko (German: Wilhelmsort) is a village in

Bydgoszcz County __NOTOC__ Bydgoszcz County ( pl, powiat bydgoski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local gover ...

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, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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(administrative district) called

Gmina Sicienko __NOTOC__ Gmina Sicienko is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sicienko, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Sicienko, which lies approximat ...

. It lies north-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 ...

. In 2006 the village had a population of 653.

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, pre-war commander of the

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, was born here.

History

The area of the modern village has been inhabited at least since early Middle Ages, there were numerous archaeological finds in the area dated between 5th and 10th century. The village for most of its history shared the fate of the nearby city of

, as well as the nearby village of Sitno. In the 19th century, when Poland was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, the area was part of Prussian province of

West Prussia The Province of West Prussia (german: Provinz Westpreußen; csb, Zôpadné Prësë; pl, Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1920. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 177 ...

. Initially named "Małe Sitno" (lit. Little Sitno), its name was

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to "Klein Sittno", while the administrative division around it was named "Wilhelmsort".Amtsbezirk Wilhelmsort, Kr. Bromberg
/ref> At the end of the 19th century the village had 18 houses and 237 inhabitants, as well as a post office and a Protestant church (built in 1887). After Poland regained her independence in 1918, the village was renamed to Sicienko (the name being a Polish diminutive of the name of the nearby village of Sitno). In 1935 it was administratively attached to

Gmina Ślesin __NOTOC__ Gmina Ślesin is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Ślesin, which lies approximately north of Konin and east of the regional cap ...

. After World War II it was attached to Dąbrówka Nowa, before being made a seat of a separate

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in 1972. September 7, 2013 "

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" (

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and

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) host in Sicienko PLFA8

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tournament.

References

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