Papowo Biskupie (German: ''Bischöflich Papau'') is a village in Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the

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 ...

(administrative district) called

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

. It lies south-east of Chełmno and north of Toruń. It is located in the Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania. Historic sights in the village include the

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

St. Nicholas church and ruins of a Teutonic Order

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

. The village has a population of 720. Papowo Biskupie is the birthplace of Polish singer, musical performer and actress Irena Santor (born 1934).

History

The village dates back to the Middle Ages, and was first mentioned in 1222. It was a royal village of the Polish Crown until 1505, when Polish King Alexander Jagiellon granted it to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chełmno. Administratively it was located in the Polish Chełmno Voivodeship. It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it was part of Germany, before it was reintegrated with Poland after the country regained independence following World War I in 1918. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), a

forced labour Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

subcamp of the

Stalag XX-A Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Toruń in German-occupied Poland. It was not a single camp and contained as many as 20,000 men at its peak. The main camp was located in seven forts of the 19th-century Toruń ...

prisoner-of-war camp was operated by the Germans in the village.

Sports

The local

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club is Kasztelan Papowo Biskupie. It competes in the lower leagues.

Gallery

File:Papowo Biskupie kosciol.JPG, Gothic Saint Nicholas church File:Papowo Biskupie-ruiny zamku(js).jpg, Ruins of the castle File:Figurka Maryi i Jezusa w Papowie Biskupim.JPG, Saint Mary Figure by the cemetery File:Cmentarz w Papowie Biskupim.JPG, Cemetery File:Koniec Wrocławek.JPG, Road sign at the entrance to Papowo Biskupie from the neighbouring village of

Wrocławki Wrocławki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Papowo Biskupie, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies east of Papowo Biskupie, south-east of Chełmno, and north of Toru� ...

File:Papowo Biskupie - plac zabaw.JPG, A playground.

References

Villages in Chełmno County Castles of the Teutonic Knights {{Chełmno-geo-stub