Podlesie Kościelne
Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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Podlesie Kościelne [pɔdˈlɛɕɛ kɔɕˈt͡ɕɛlnɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mieścisko, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1]
Podlesie Kościelne | |
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Village | |
Historic wooden church of Saint Anne in Podlesie Kościelne | |
  Podlesie Kościelne Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 52°44′N 17°18′E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Wągrowiec |
| Gmina | Mieścisko |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
There is a historic wooden church of Saint Anne from 1712 in the village.
History
Podlesie was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 52, entirely Polish by nationality and Roman Catholic by confession.[3]
During the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, the Wehrmacht carried out a massacre of nine Poles in the village.[4]
