Jeziorki, Poznań County

For other places with the same name, see Jeziorki.

Jeziorki [jɛˈʑɔrki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stęszew, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Stęszew and 25 km (16 mi) south-west of the regional capital Poznań.

Jeziorki
Village
Palace in Jeziorki
Jeziorki
Coordinates: 52°18′45″N 16°35′36″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Poznań
Gmina	Stęszew
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PZ, POZ
Primary airport	Poznań–Ławica Airport

History

Jeziorki was a private church village, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[2]

During World War II, on 20 January 1945, Jeziorki was the first stop of a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of various nationalities from the dissolved camp in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.^[3]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
3. "Ewakuacja piesza". Muzeum Martyrologiczne w Żabikowie (in Polish). Retrieved 30 November 2023.