Łąck | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Łąck | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Łąck | |
| Coordinates:52°28′N19°37′E / 52.467°N 19.617°E /52.467; 19.617 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| County | Płock |
| Gmina | Łąck |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,350 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | WPL |
| National roads |  |
| Voivodeship roads |  |
Łąck[wɔnt͡sk] is avillage inPłock County,Masovian Voivodeship, in centralPoland. It is the seat of thegmina (administrative district) calledGmina Łąck.[1] It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west ofPłock and 99 km (62 mi) west ofWarsaw. It is located on the western shore of Łąckie Duże Lake.
The landmark of Łąck is the local palace.
Various Polish films were shot in the village, includingSatan from the Seventh Grade,At Full Gallop,With Fire and Sword, as well as the 1960s TV seriesStawka większa niż życie.[2]
In the late 19th century, there was a distillery, a brick factory and a cheese factory in Łąck, and the village had a population of 308.[3] According to the 1921 census, the village with the adjacent manor farm had a population of 312, entirelyPolish by nationality and 99.0%Roman Catholic by confession.[4]
During theGerman occupation of Poland (World War II), the forest of Łąck was the site of large massacres, in which over 200 Poles were murdered as part of theIntelligenzaktion. Around 200 Poles, previously imprisoned inPłock, among them teachers, activists, shopowners, notaries, local officials, pharmacists, directors and members of thePolish Military Organisation, were murdered in Łąck between October 1939 and February 1940, and another 10 Poles were murdered in March 1940.[5] In Łąck, Germans established a transit camp for Polesexpelled from nearby villages to the so-calledGeneral Government or deported asforced labour to Germany, and many Polish families from Łąck were expelled in May 1942.[6] In the winter of 1942–1943, the Germans buried about 300kidnapped Polish children in the local forests, after the children were deported in afreight train from another region of occupied Poland to Płock and froze to death.[7] In 1943–1945 the German administration used theGermanized nameLonsch in reference to the village. German occupation ended in 1945.
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