# Marchwacz

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Marchwacz
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = MARCHWACZ - pozostało po Niemojowskich 06 - panoramio.jpg
| image_caption = Niemojowski Palace in Marchwacz
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [Voivodeship](/source/Voivodeships_of_Poland)
| subdivision_name1 = [Greater Poland](/source/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship)
| subdivision_type2 = [County](/source/Powiat)
| subdivision_name2 = [Kalisz](/source/Kalisz_County)
| subdivision_type3 = [Gmina](/source/Gmina)
| subdivision_name3 = [Szczytniki](/source/Gmina_Szczytniki)
| coordinates = {{coord|51|44|N|18|18|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| elevation_m = 
| population_total = 
| timezone = [CET](/source/Central_European_Time)
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [CEST](/source/Central_European_Summer_Time)
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| registration_plate = PKA
| blank1_name_sec2 = [National roads](/source/National_roads_in_Poland)
| blank1_info_sec2 = 32px|link=National road 12 (Poland)
}}
'''Marchwacz''' {{IPAc-pl|'|m|a|r|h|f|a|cz}} is a [village](/source/village) in the administrative district of [Gmina Szczytniki](/source/Gmina_Szczytniki), within [Kalisz County](/source/Kalisz_County), [Greater Poland Voivodeship](/source/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship), in central Poland.{{TERYT}}

==History==
thumb|left|Entrance gate to the park
As part of the region of [Greater Poland](/source/Greater_Poland), i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Marchwacz was a private church village, administratively located in the Kalisz County in the [Kalisz Voivodeship](/source/Kalisz_Voivodeship_(1314%E2%80%931793)) in the [Greater Poland Province](/source/Greater_Poland_Province%2C_Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland) of the Kingdom of Poland.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=2017|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Historii [Polskiej Akademii Nauk](/source/Polish_Academy_of_Sciences)|page=1b}}</ref>

In 1827, it had a population of 126.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VI|year=1885|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=104}}</ref> According to the [1921 census](/source/1921_Polish_census), the village with the adjacent manor farm had a population of 424, entirely [Polish](/source/Polish_people) by nationality and [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) by confession.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|volume=II|year=1925|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=16}}</ref>

Following the joint German-Soviet [invasion of Poland](/source/invasion_of_Poland), which started [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in September 1939, the village was [occupied by Germany](/source/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)). Shortly before their withdrawal, on January 21–22, 1945, German troops committed a massacre of 57 Polish inhabitants of Marchwacz, six other Poles, and twelve captured [Soviet prisoners of war](/source/German_atrocities_committed_against_Soviet_prisoners_of_war) (see ''[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation](/source/Nazi_crimes_against_the_Polish_nation)'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poznan.uw.gov.pl/wydarzenia-archiwalne/71-rocznica-mordu-na-mieszkancach-marchwacza|title=71. rocznica mordu na mieszkańcach Marchwacza|website=Wielkopolski Urząd Wojewódzki w Poznaniu|author=Anna Czuchra|date=30 January 2016|access-date=12 November 2023|language=pl}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [Bonawentura Niemojowski](/source/Bonawentura_Niemojowski) (1787–1835), Polish lawyer, politician and writer<ref name=sgk/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Gmina Szczytniki}}
{{Massacres of Poles}}

Category:Populated riverside places in Poland
Category:Villages in Kalisz County
Category:Sites of massacres of Poles in World War II
Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland
Category:Prisoner-of-war massacres committed by Nazi Germany in World War II

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