Polichno | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 53°7′N 17°33′E / 53.117°N 17.550°E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
County | Nakło |
Gmina | Nakło nad Notecią |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | CNA |
Polichno [pɔˈlixnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nakło nad Notecią, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Nakło nad Notecią and 31 km (19 mi) west of Bydgoszcz. It is located in the ethnographic region of Pałuki.
Polichno was a royal village, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]
During the German occupation (World War II), in October 1939, the German Selbstschutz carried out a massacre of Poles from Polichno and nearby Rozwarzyn in the local forest as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3]