Wersk

Wersk [vɛrsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zakrzewo, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.^[1]

Wersk
Village
Wersk
Coordinates: 53°24′31″N 17°16′25″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Złotów
Gmina	Zakrzewo
Population	220
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PZL

History

As of 1467, the territory of Wersk was still forested,^[2] but soon, by the 16th century, the village had developed. Wersk was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[3] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. In 1885, it had a population of 281.^[2]

In 1939, the Germans persecuted local Polish activists, who were either expelled or arrested and afterwards executed (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[4][5] After Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.