Gorzuchowo
Village
Train station in Gorzuchowo
Train station in Gorzuchowo
Gorzuchowo is located in Poland
Gorzuchowo
Gorzuchowo
Gorzuchowo is located in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gorzuchowo
Gorzuchowo
Coordinates: 53°21′N 18°41′E / 53.350°N 18.683°E / 53.350; 18.683
Country Poland
VoivodeshipKuyavian-Pomeranian
CountyChełmno
GminaStolno
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationCCH
Highways
Voivodeship roads

Gorzuchowo [ɡɔʐuˈxɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stolno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Stolno, 18 km (11 mi) east of Chełmno, and 36 km (22 mi) north of Toruń. It is located in Chełmno Land within the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Mass grave of Poles killed in the German bombing of Gorzuchowo in 1939

On September 2, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, the German Luftwaffe bombed the local train station, killing 39 people, including railway workers and civilians (men, women and children). During the subsequent German occupation, Gorzuchowo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2] In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to transit camps in the region, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]

Transport

The Voivodeship road 543 passes through the village, and the A1 motorway runs nearby, east of the village. There is also a train station in Gorzuchowo.

Notable residents

References

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  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 40.
  3. ↑ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 98. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.



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