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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kuźnica Żelichowska
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = Kuznica Zelichowska cemetery 01.JPG
| image_caption = Cemetery in Kuźnica Żelichowska
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Greater Poland Voivodeship|Greater Poland]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Czarnków-Trzcianka County|Czarnków-Trzcianka]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Krzyż Wielkopolski|Krzyż Wielkopolski]]
| coordinates = {{coord|52|58|41|N|16|4|54|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| elevation_m =
| population_total =
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 64-763<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poczta-polska.pl/hermes/uploads/2013/02/spispna.pdf|title=Oficjalny Spis Pocztowych Numerów Adresowych|website=Poczta Polska|access-date=23 November 2023|language=pl}}</ref>
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| registration_plate = PCT
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW123-PL.svg|32px]]
}}
'''Kuźnica Żelichowska''' ({{IPA|pl|kuʑˈɲit͡sa ʐɛliˈxɔfska|lang}}) is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Krzyż Wielkopolski]], within [[Czarnków-Trzcianka County]], [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]], in west-central Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|13|km|mi|0}} north-east of [[Krzyż Wielkopolski]], {{convert|34|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of [[Czarnków]], and {{convert|86|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north-west of the regional capital [[Poznań]].

==History==
Kuźnica Żelichowska was a private village of [[Szlachta|Polish nobility]], administratively located in the Poznań County in the [[Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)|Poznań Voivodeship]] in the [[Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province]] of the Kingdom of Poland.<ref>{{cite book|author= |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=2017|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Polskiej Akademii Nauk]]|page=1a}}</ref> It was annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] in the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany, within which the [[Polish people|Polish]] population was subjected to [[Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions|Germanisation policies]]. During the final stages of [[World War II]], on January 28, 1945, the retreating Germans committed a massacre of six Italian generals ([[Giuseppe Andreoli (general)|Giuseppe Andreoli]], [[Emanuele Balbo Bertone]], [[Ugo Ferrero]], [[Carlo Spatocco]], [[Alberto Trionfi]], [[Alessandro Vaccaneo]]) during a German-perpetrated [[The March (1945)|death march]] of prisoners of war.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Muraca|first=Ilio|year=2008|title=E quei generali marciavano, marciavano e morivano|magazine=Patria Indipendente|location=Roma|language=it|issue=9|pages=21–23|issn=0031-3130}}</ref> After the German withdrawal, the massacred Italians were buried by local Poles.<ref>Muraca, p. 24</ref> The village returned to Poland.

==References==
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{{Gmina Krzyż Wielkopolski}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Villages in Czarnków-Trzcianka County]]
[[Category:Populated riverside places in Poland]]
[[Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland]]

Kuźnica Żelichowska - Revision history

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