Szczuplinki is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Książki __NOTOC__ Gmina Książki is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Książki, which lies approximately north-east of Wąbrzeźno and nor ...

, within

Wąbrzeźno County __NOTOC__ Wąbrzeźno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament. * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ...

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

Książki Książki is a village in Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Książki. It lies approximately north-east of Wąbrzeźno and north-east ...

, north of

Wąbrzeźno Wąbrzeźno () is a town in northern Poland, in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, about northeast of Toruń. It is the capital of the Wąbrzeźno County. The population is 13,877 inhabitants (2010). History Along with Chełmno Land, the are ...

, and north-east of

Toruń Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

History

The first information about Szczuplinki dates back to 1268. It was when

Chełmno Land Chełmno land (, or Kulmerland) is a part of the historical region of Pomerelia, located in central-northern Poland. Chełmno land is named after the city of Chełmno. The largest city in the region is Toruń; another bigger city is Grudziąd ...

(ziemia chełmińska) was raided by Prussians. Invaders burnt a fortification belonging to Cippel, a liege knight. Jeroschin, a chronicler, in a document dating from 1335 spells Cippel's name as Zipfil. According to the oldest sources of the Order of the Teutonic Knights, the village Szczuplinki (called Czhippiln) covered about 13 włóka. In a book from 1444, in which damage and losses were written down, the village is called Schippelsdorf. It was owned by Johannes von Czyppelyn (Jan from Szczuplinki). Other information about that settlement dates from 1667, so from a church inspection of the canon Strzesz in a church in Radzyń. It states that the village was the property of Łukasz Trzciński, a country gentleman. During the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655–1660, the village was completely destroyed. It was owned by Tomasz Czapski in 1776. Its next owner was Jakub Zaleski. Konstancja Małachowska (maiden name Zaleska) granted the estate to farmers who lived there in perpetual lease. The village was sold to the descendants of leaseholders in 1835. Szczuplinki became a part of Poland once again in 1920.

References

Villages in Wąbrzeźno County {{Wąbrzeźno-geo-stub