Kargowa

Kargowa was first mentioned in writing in the 14th century. It was granted town rights by King John II Casimir Vasa in 1661.^[3] In the 18th century, the kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often visited the town during their travels between Warsaw and Dresden.^[3] In the 18th century the town was the site of two battles. During the War of the Polish Succession, in 1735, a battle was fought between Poles and Saxons. During the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Kargowa was one of the places of Polish resistance against Prussia and a defensive battle took place.^[3][4]

After the successful Polish Greater Poland uprising of 1806, Kargowa was regained by the Poles and became part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815 it was annexed by Prussia for the second time. After Poland regained independence, Kargowa was captured by Polish insurgents in 1919; however, the Treaty of Versailles granted the town to Germany.

During the final stages of World War II in 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of Jewish women from a just dissolved subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Sława passed through the town.^[5] The town finally returned to Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.

• Karl von Hänisch, military general
• Maciej Kozłowski, actor
• Carl Gottfried Drange, one of Angela Merkel's maternal ancestors was a master miller here

See twin towns of Gmina Kargowa.

• 
  Town center
• 
  Monument to the Heroes of the Greater Poland uprising
• 
  Maximilian Kolbe church
• 
  Post office