Wabcz is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Stolno __NOTOC__ Gmina Stolno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Stolno, which lies approximately south-east of Chełmno, north of Toruń, ...

, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies north-east of Stolno, east of Chełmno, north of Toruń, and north-east 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 ...

. It is located in the Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

During the

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( World War II), Wabcz was one of the sites of executions of

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 ...

, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the '' Intelligenzaktion''. Local Polish priests were murdered by the Germans in a massacre of Poles committed in nearby

Klamry Klamry (german: Klammer) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Chełmno, north of Toruń, and north-east o ...

, also as part of the ''Intelligenzaktion''. In January 1942, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses were then handed over to

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colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy.

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 Wojownik Wabcz. It competes in the lower leagues.

References

Villages in Chełmno County {{Chełmno-geo-stub