Sokołowo 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 to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Września Gmina Września is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Września, which lies approximately east of the regional capital Poznań. The gmin ...

, within

Września County Września County ( pl, powiat wrzesiński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...

, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of

Września Września (german: Wreschen) is a town in west-central Poland with 28,600 inhabitants (1995). It is situated in the Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Poznań Voivodeship (1975–1998), on the Wrześnica Riv ...

and east of the regional capital

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

. The village existed before 1523.''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Vol. XI, Warsaw, 1890, pp. 37–38 (in Polish) In the past it was owned by the

Polish noble The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...

Poniński family, including participant of the

November Uprising The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...

of 1830–1831, . During the Greater Poland uprising, on May 2, 1848, Sokołowo was the site the , in which the Polish insurgents commanded by general, poet and historian Ludwik Mierosławski won against the Prussians. Poles from the nearby town of

erected a

monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, his ...

at the site several months later despite Prussian rule.

References

Villages in Września County {{Września-geo-stub