Śmigiel | |
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 Old houses atPlac Rozstrzelanych in Śmigiel | |
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  Śmigiel | |
| Coordinates:52°0′33″N16°31′7″E / 52.00917°N 16.51861°E /52.00917; 16.51861 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
| County | Kościan |
| Gmina | Śmigiel |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.2 km2 (2.0 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
• Total | 5,536 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 64-030 |
| Vehicle registration | PKS |
| Website | http://www.smigiel.pl |
Śmigiel[ˈɕmiɡʲɛl] is atown inKościan County,Greater Poland Voivodeship,Poland,[2] with 5,536 inhabitants (2010).[1]
Śmigiel was grantedtown rights in 1415 or perhaps earlier. It was aprivate town ofPolish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in thePoznań Voivodeship in theGreater Poland Province.[3] It was annexed byPrussia in theSecond Partition of Poland in 1793. After the successfulGreater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-livedDuchy of Warsaw. It was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, and included within Germany in 1871. While part of Prussia and Germany, the town was administered withinKreis Schmiegel in theGrand Duchy of Posen/Province of Posen. As Poland regained independence followingWorld War I in 1918, the town was reintegrated with Poland, and localPoles joined theGreater Poland Uprising (1918–19), which aim was to reintegrate the entire region ofGreater Poland with the reborn state. Among the insurgents were future mayors Władysław Pioch and Maksymilian Stachowiak.[4] Władysław Pioch co-organized the local Polish administration.[4]
During the joint German-Sovietinvasion of Poland, which startedWorld War II in September 1939, the town was captured by Germany after a Polish defense, co-organized by the local mayor Władysław Pioch.[4] In the following weeks, on September 30 and October 23, 1939, the GermanEinsatzgruppe VI carried out two public executions of Poles, killing 8 and 15 people respectively.[5] Among the victims were pre-way mayors Władysław Pioch and Maksymilian Stachowiak, local Polish activists,intelligentsia and former insurgents of theGreater Poland Uprising.[4][5] Polish craftsmen and merchants from Śmigiel were also among 45 Poles murdered by the Germans on November 7, 1939 in the forest nearKościan.[6] In 1940, Germanyexpelled 500 Poles to theGeneral Government (German-occupied central Poland), and their houses were handed over toGerman colonists as part of theLebensraum policy.[7] Also a transit camp for Poles expelled from nearby villages was operated in the town.[8] TheGerman occupation ended in 1945.
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The localfootball club is Pogoń Śmigiel.[11] It competes in the lower leagues.
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