Zbiersk-Cukrownia is a village in the administrative district of

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

, within

Kalisz County __NOTOC__ Kalisz County ( pl, powiat kaliski) 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 governme ...

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

Stawiszyn Stawiszyn (; german: 1943-45 Stavensheim) is a town in Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 1,569 inhabitants (2006). It is the urban part of the larger Stawiszyn Commune, a mixed urban-rural municipality A municipality is ...

, north of Kalisz, and south-east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

The village was established as a result of administrative reform on 1 January 1973. During said reform, smaller administrative units of ''

gromada Gromada is a Polish word meaning "gathering", "group", or "assembly". In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the term referred to a village organization which embraced all the inhabitants of a village and acted as a local authority, as well a ...

'' and ''osiedle'' (settlement) were replaced with larger

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 ...

s. There was a question whether to locate gmina's capital in Zbiersk, which was the biggest village of the region, but was located on its outskirts, or nearby

– which was located closer to gmina's center, but was a smaller town (in fact, the smallest town in Poland). To solve the dispute, Zbiersk was divided into Zbiersk (western part) and Zbiersk-Cukrownia (eastern part) along the Konin- Kalisz road. The name of the new village was derived from a local sugar refinery (pl. ''cukrownia''), established in the 19th century.

References

Villages in Kalisz County {{Kalisz-geo-stub