Obrzycko ( [ɔˈbʐɨt͡skɔ] ) is a town in Szamotuły County , Greater Poland Voivodeship , Poland , with 2,262 inhabitants (2010).
4-519: Nearby municipalities include Wronki , Ostroróg , and Szamotuły . 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. It was mentioned as a seat of a castellany in 1238. Obrzycko was a private village of Polish nobility , and later a private town , administratively located in the Poznań County in
8-751: The Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province . In the course of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia . Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw . After the duchy's dissolution, it became part of Prussia again after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and from 1818 it belonged to
12-690: The Samter district . As part of the Prussian Province of Posen , the town became part of Germany in 1871 under the Germanized name Obersitzko . The local population was subjected to Germanisation policies. At the beginning of the 20th century the town had a Protestant and a Catholic church, a synagogue, a furniture factory and a sawmill. According to. the census of 1910, the town had a population of 1,746, of which 1,018 (58.3%) were Germans and 725 (41.5%) were Poles . After World War I , it
16-718: Was involved in the Greater Poland uprising and soon became part of newly reborn Poland . During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . It became part of the Samter district in the newly formed province of Reichsgau Wartheland . In 1942, the occupiers established a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in
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