Łąck

Łąck
Łąck
Village
	Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Łąck
	Flag Coat of arms
	Łąck
	Coordinates: 52°28′N 19°37′E / 52.467°N 19.617°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Płock
Gmina	Łąck
Population	1,350
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WPL
National roads
Voivodeship roads

Łąck [wɔnt͡sk] is a village in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łąck.^[1] It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Płock and 99 km (62 mi) west of Warsaw. It is located on the western shore of Łąckie Duże Lake.

The landmark of Łąck is the local palace.

Various Polish films were shot in the village, including Satan from the Seventh Grade, At Full Gallop, With Fire and Sword, as well as the 1960s TV series Stawka większa niż życie.^[2]

History

In the late 19th century, there was a distillery, a brick factory and a cheese factory in Łąck, and the village had a population of 308.^[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the forest of Łąck was the site of large massacres, in which over 200 Poles were murdered as part of the Intelligenzaktion. Around 200 Poles, previously imprisoned in Płock, among them teachers, activists, shopowners, notaries, local officials, pharmacists, directors and members of the Polish Military Organisation, were murdered in Łąck between October 1939 and February 1940, and another 10 Poles were murdered in March 1940.^[4] In Łąck, Germans established a transit camp for Poles expelled from nearby villages to the so-called General Government or deported as forced labour to Germany, and many Polish families from Łąck were expelled in May 1942.^[5] In the winter of 1942–1943, the Germans buried about 300 kidnapped Polish children in the local forests, after the children were deported in a freight train from another region of occupied Poland to Płock and froze to death.^[6] In 1943–1945 the German administration used the Germanized name Lonsch in reference to the village. German occupation ended in 1945.

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ "Łąck". Mazowsze.travel (in Polish). Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V (in Polish). Warsaw. 1884. p. 627.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 225–226.
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 219–220, 341. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
^ Kołakowski, Andrzej (2020). "Zbrodnia bez kary: eksterminacja dzieci polskich w okresie okupacji niemieckiej w latach 1939-1945". In Kostkiewicz, Janina (ed.). Zbrodnia bez kary... Eksterminacja i cierpienie polskich dzieci pod okupacją niemiecką (1939–1945) (in Polish). Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Biblioteka Jagiellońska. p. 78.