Golina Wielka [ɡɔˈlina ˈvjɛlka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bojanowo, within Rawicz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of Bojanowo, 12 km (7 mi) north-west of Rawicz, and 79 km (49 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.
Golina Wielka | |
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Village | |
 Palace in the village | |
  Golina Wielka | |
| Coordinates: 51°42′N 16°47′E / 51.700°N 16.783°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Rawicz |
| Gmina | Bojanowo |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | PRA |
History
editAs part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Golina was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1941, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses and farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3] Expelled Poles were enslaved as forced labour and sent either to Germany or to new German colonists in the county.[3] Between 1941 and 1942 there was a German slave labour camp for Jews in Golina Wielka, and more than a dozen prisoners died from starvation or were killed there.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
- ^ a b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 279. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
- ^ "History - Jewish community before 1989 - Bojanowo - Virtual Shtetl". Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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