Wersk [vɛrsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zakrzewo, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1]
Wersk | |
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Village | |
  Wersk | |
| Coordinates: 53°24′31″N 17°16′25″E / 53.40861°N 17.27361°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Złotów |
| Gmina | Zakrzewo |
| Population | 220 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | PZL |
History
editAs of 1467, the territory of Wersk was still forested,[2] but soon, by the 16th century, the village had developed. Wersk was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. In 1885, it had a population of 281.[2]
In 1939, the Germans persecuted local Polish activists, who were either expelled or arrested and afterwards executed (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[4][5] After Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.
References
edit- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ a b Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIII (in Polish). Warsaw. 1893. p. 236.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ 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. 1b.
- ^ Cygański, Mirosław (1984). "Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939-1945". Przegląd Zachodni (in Polish) (4): 45.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 79.
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