Tur [tur] (German: Thure) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szubin, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Szubin, 12 km (7 mi) south-east of Nakło nad Notecią, and 19 km (12 mi) west of Bydgoszcz.
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Coordinates: 53°5′N 17°44′E | |
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Voivodeship | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
County | Nakło |
Gmina | Szubin |
First mentioned | 1337 |
Population | 1,040 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | CNA |
The village has a population of 1,040.
The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1337, when it was part of the Piast-ruled Kingdom of Poland. Tur was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the Germans expelled several Polish families from the village.[3] Poles were mostly deported to the Kraków District of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3] In December 1940, the Germans relocated the Stalag XXI-B prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs from Szubin to Tur.[4]
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