Bobrowniki
Town in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Bobrowniki ([bɔbrɔvˈniki]) is a town in Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bobrowniki. In the Middle Ages the town was one of the centres of the Dobrzyń Land.
Bobrowniki | |
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Town | |
Ruins of the castle | |
_COA.svg) Coat of arms | |
  Bobrowniki | |
| Coordinates: 52°46′36″N 18°57′26″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
| County | Lipno |
| Gmina | Bobrowniki |
| Population | |
• Total | 980 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | CLI |
| Website | http://ugbobrowniki.pl/ |
Near Bobrowniki, there is a remarkable power line crossing of the Vistula river.
History
The town contains ruins of the castle, built at the end of 14th century by Teutonic Knights at the place of a former Polish gród. Bobrowniki was a royal town, administratively located in the Lipno County in the Inowrocław Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several local farmers and activists were among the victimes of a massacre of Poles, perpetrated by the Germans in nearby Radomice on October 8, 1939 as part of the genocidal Intelligenzaktion campaign.[3] Local Polish teachers were arrested and imprisoned in Włocławek, and two local school principals were sent to Nazi concentration camps and murdered there.[4]
