Strzałkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Strzałkowo [stʂau̯ˈkɔvɔ] is a village in Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Strzałkowo.

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4,953

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Strzałkowo
Village
Railway station
Strzałkowo Location within Poland
Coordinates: 52°18′36″N 17°49′5″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Słupca
Gmina	Strzałkowo
Population	4,953
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PSL
National roads
Website	http://www.strzalkowo.pl

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History

Strzałkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County^[2] in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.^[3] It was owned by the Strzałkowski, Węsierski and Korytowski families.^[2] In the late 19th century, it had a population of 462.^[2]

During World War I, it was the location of a German prisoner-of-war camp for tens of thousands of Allied POWs of various nationalities.^[4]

During the World War II German occupation, in November 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles from Strzałkowo.^[5] Expelled Poles were deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in German-occupied southern Poland, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[5]

The officially protected traditional food originating from Strzałkowo is local butter (Masło ze Strzałkowa), as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.^[6]

The local football team is Polanin Strzałkowo.^[7] It competes in the lower leagues.

Jerzy Młokosiewicz [pl] (1923–1995), Home Army soldier and participant of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, Polish deputy minister of finance
Leon Michalski [pl] (1915–1979), officer of the Polish Army and the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II
Łukasz Kuropaczewski (born 1981), Polish guitarist