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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Niewolno
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Niewolno.jpg
| imagesize = 150px
| image_caption = A monument to citizens of Niewolno murdered during the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation of Poland]]
| 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 = [[Gniezno County|Gniezno]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Trzemeszno|Trzemeszno]]
| pushpin_map = Poland
| coordinates = {{coord|52|35|N|17|49|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_total =
| registration_plate = PGN
}}
'''Niewolno''' {{IPAc-pl|ń|e1|'|w|o|l|n|o}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Trzemeszno]], within [[Gniezno County]], [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]], in central Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|2|km|mi|0}} north of [[Trzemeszno]], {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Gniezno]], and {{convert|65|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of the regional capital [[Poznań]].

==History==
As part of the region of [[Greater Poland]], i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Niewolno was a private church village of the monastery in Trzemeszno,<ref>{{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XV Część II|year=1902|language=pl|location=Warsaw|page=383}}</ref> administratively located in the Gniezno County in the [[Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)|Kalisz 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=Warsaw|publisher=Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences]]|page=1b}}</ref>

During the German [[invasion of Poland]] at the start of [[World War II]], it was the site of a Polish defense, and on September 11, 1939, German troops carried out a massacre of 18 captured Polish defenders of the village (see ''[[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation]]'').<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=92}}</ref> During the subsequent [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation]], in 1939 and 1941, the occupiers carried out [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|expulsions of Poles]], whose houses and farms were handed over to new [[Germans|German]] colonists as part of the ''[[Lebensraum]]'' policy.<ref name=mw>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2017|title=Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN|pages=167–168, 301|isbn=978-83-8098-174-4}}</ref> Expelled Poles were either enslaved as [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] of the colonists or placed in a transit camp in nearby [[Szczeglin, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship|Szczeglin]], robbed of money and valuable possessions and deported in freight trains to the [[General Government]] in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.<ref name=mw/>

==References==
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{{Gmina Trzemeszno}}
{{Massacres of Poles}}

[[Category:Villages in Gniezno County]]
[[Category:Sites of World War II massacres of Poles]]
[[Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland]]

{{Gniezno-geo-stub}}

Niewolno - Revision history

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