Kowalewo-Opactwo | |
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Village | |
![]() Church of Saints Peter and Paul | |
Coordinates: 52°14′54″N 17°55′04″E / 52.24833°N 17.91778°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
County | Słupca |
Gmina | Słupca |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Vehicle registration | PSL |
Kowalewo-Opactwo [kɔvaˈlɛvɔ ɔˈpat͡stfɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupca, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. [1]
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. Kowalewo was a private church village, administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. [2]
During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and afterwards deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. [3]
The Polish A2 motorway runs nearby, south of the village.