Sadówka

Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
51°58′N 19°35′E / 51.967°N 19.583°E / 51.967; 19.583Country PolandVoivodeshipŁódźCountyZgierzGminaStrykówTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Vehicle registrationEZG

Sadówka [saˈdufka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stryków, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Stryków, 18 km (11 mi) north-east of Zgierz, and 22 km (14 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.[1]

History

Sadówka was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Brzeziny County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]

On September 12, 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, invading German troops carried out a massacre of a dozen or so local Polish inhabitants (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]

Transport

The Polish A1 motorway runs nearby, east of the village.

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 3.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 93, 125.
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