Sadówka
Sadówka | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Sadówka | |
| Coordinates: 51°58′N 19°35′E / 51.967°N 19.583°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Łódź |
| County | Zgierz |
| Gmina | Stryków |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | EZG |
Sadówka [saˈdufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stryków, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Stryków, 18 km (11 mi) north-east of Zgierz, and 22 km (14 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.[1]
History
[edit]Sadówka was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Brzeziny County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
On September 12, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, invading German troops carried out a massacre of a dozen or so local Polish inhabitants (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]
Transport
[edit]The Polish A1 motorway runs nearby, east of the village.
References
[edit]- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 3.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 93, 125.
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