Szczypiorno
Szczypiorno has been a district in the southwest of the Polish district town of Kalisz since 1978 on the DK 25 arterial road towards Ostrów Wielkopolski and on to Wroclaw and Katowice . The district has its own breakpoint on the Łódź – Forst (Lausitz) railway line .
In the district there is a training center for prison workers and a Ukrainian military cemetery .
During the First World War there was an internment camp for soldiers of the Polish Legion . In 1918 German prisoners of war were imprisoned in this camp. In 1919 one stopped here u. a. the former Prussian district administrator and later member of the Sejm, Eugen Naumann, in the internment camp / prison camp for six months. From 1920 to 1924 soldiers of the People's Republic of Ukraine were interned.
Since 1917 the German guards taught the Polish prisoners how to play handball, which was previously unknown to the Poles . That is why handball players are also called Szczypiorniści in the Polish language .
literature
- Emanuel Einel (ed.): Szczypiorno: a chapter of Polish shame and cultural disgrace; how things fared over ten thousand German east marketers in a Polish internment camp . Verlag des Deutschen Ostbundes, Berlin, 1929, DNB 577971220
Web links
- Art. "Szczypiorno". In: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego , Volume 11, pp. 873–874 (Polish)
- Judyta Anna Dymkowska: Obóz w Szczypiornie . Website of the city of Kalisz (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Stefan Kotowski : Poland's policy towards its German minority 1919–1939 (= studies by the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund: Research Center for East Central Europe 23). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1998, ISBN 978-3-447-03997-0 , p. 64.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ' N , 20 ° 40' E