Białośliwie

Białośliwie [bjawɔˈɕlivjɛ] is a village in Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Białośliwie.^[1] It lies approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Piła and 80 km (50 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań.

Białośliwie
Village
Sacred Heart church in Białośliwie
Białośliwie
Coordinates: 53°6′N 17°8′E / 53.100°N 17.133°E / 53.100; 17.133
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Piła
Gmina	Białośliwie
First mentioned	1216
Population
• Total	2,600
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

The oldest known mention of Białośliwie comes from 1216, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, dozens of local Polish inhabitants were murdered by the Germans in mass executions carried out in Świerkówiec, Paterek and in the woods on the Noteć river.^[2]

The village has a pre-war Catholic church and two historic railway stations: regular and narrow-gauge.

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 1 June 2008.
2. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, pp. 92, 163–164 (in Polish)