Bobrowniki | |
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Town | |
 Ruins of the castle | |
_COA.svg) Coat of arms | |
  Bobrowniki | |
| Coordinates:52°46′36″N18°57′26″E / 52.77667°N 18.95722°E /52.77667; 18.95722 | |
| 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/ |
Bobrowniki ([bɔbrɔvˈniki]) is a town inLipno County,Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It is the seat of thegmina (administrative district) calledGmina Bobrowniki. In the Middle Ages the town was one of the centres of theDobrzyń Land.
Near Bobrowniki, there is a remarkablepower line crossing of theVistula river.
The town contains ruins of thecastle, built at the end of 14th century byTeutonic Knights at the place of a former Polishgród. Bobrowniki was aroyal town, administratively located in the Lipno County in theInowrocław Voivodeship in theGreater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During theGerman occupation of Poland (World War II), several local farmers and activists were among the victimes of a massacre ofPoles, perpetrated by the Germans in nearbyRadomice on October 8, 1939 as part of the genocidalIntelligenzaktion campaign.[3] Local Polish teachers were arrested and imprisoned inWłocławek, and two local school principals were sent toNazi concentration camps and murdered there.[4]
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