Kamionna is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Łochów __NOTOC__ Gmina Łochów is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Łochów, which lies approximately north-west of Węgrów and north-east of Warsa ...

, within

Węgrów County __NOTOC__ Węgrów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 199 ...

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, in east-central Poland.

History

The village was founded in the 15th century. It was initially named ''Kamienmost'', then ''Kamionolas'' from 1509, and ''Kamionna'' from the 18th century. It was a private village of

Polish nobility The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the nobility, noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social ...

, including the Targowski/Łochowski, Godlewski, and Kuszell families. In the 1480s, nobleman Mikołaj Targowski founded the local Catholic church and parish of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. A second church of the Ten Thousand Martyrs was founded in 1576 by Jan Łochowski, but it was destroyed by the invading Swedes in 1704. Afterwards, in the same year, Stanisław Godlewski founded a new church in the village. Kamionna was annexed by

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in the

Third Partition of Poland The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polis ...

in 1795. It was regained by Poles following the

Austro-Polish War The Austro-Polish War or Polish-Austrian War was a part of the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809 (a coalition of the Austrian Empire and the United Kingdom against Napoleon's French Empire and allied states). In this war, Polish forces of ...

of 1809, and included within the short-lived

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a First French Empire, French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars. It initially comprised the ethnical ...

. After its dissolution, in 1815, the village fell to the

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of Poland. During the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

of 1863–1864, local parish priest Józef Wiktor gave shelter to Polish insurgents from the region in Kamionna. During

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, in 1915, the Russians blew up two church towers and destroyed a part of the church of the Immaculate Conception. After World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of the village. Michał Woźniak, the local parish priest who initiated the reconstruction of the church façade after the war, moved to

Kutno Kutno is a city in central Poland with 42,704 inhabitants (2021) and an area of . It is the capital of Kutno County in the Łódź Voivodeship. Founded in the medieval period, Kutno was a local center of crafts and trade, owing its growth to i ...

in 1923, where he was arrested by the Germans during

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and sent to the

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, where he was tortured and died in 1942. He is considered one of the

108 Blessed Polish Martyrs The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs (), were Catholics from Poland killed during World War II by Nazi Germany. Their liturgical feast day is 12 June. The 108 were beatified on 13 June 1999 by Pope John P ...

of World War II by the

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. In 2011, footballer

Lukas Podolski Lukas Josef Podolski (; born Łukasz Józef Podolski, , 4 June 1985) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward or attacking midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Górnik Zabrze. He is kno ...

and Monika Puchalski had a church wedding in Kamionna.

References

Villages in Węgrów County 15th-century establishments in Poland Populated places established in the 15th century {{Węgrów-geo-stub