Zbrudzewo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Åšrem
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Gmina Śrem is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Śrem County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Śrem, which lies approximately south of the regional capital Poznań.
The gmina ...
, within
Åšrem County
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Śrem County ( pl, powiat śremski) 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 governmen ...
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Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Åšrem and south of the regional capital
Poznań.
History
The village dates back to the
Middle Ages, and it surely existed before 1388.
[''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Tom XIV, Warszawa, 1893, p. 532 (in Polish)] In the past it was a possession of the nearby town of Śrem,
[ and was administratively located in the Pyzdry 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 Polish Crown. The Zbrudzewski noble family hailed from the village.[
During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), on November 8, 1939, the Germans murdered 12 ]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 Åšrem at the local shooting range (see '' Nazi crimes against the Polish nation'').
Notable people
* (1896–1940), Polish lieutenant colonel, victim of the Katyn massacre
References
Zbrudzewo
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