Owińska [ɔˈviɲska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czerwonak , within Poznań County , Greater Poland Voivodeship , in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Czerwonak and 12 km (7 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań .
6-521: Owińska lies close to the Warta river, on the main road and railway line from Poznań to Wągrowiec . In the village are a former Cistercian convent (now a school for the blind), a Renaissance church, and a palace built in late classical style (1804–1806). During 1943 - 1945 it was named Treskau by Nazi Germany. Owińska was the location of a mental hospital where approximately 1,000 patients were murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II . They were shot in
12-635: A north-westerly direction to flow into the Oder at Kostrzyn nad Odrą on Poland's border with Germany . About 808.2 kilometres (502.2 mi) long, it the second-longest river within the borders of Poland (after the Vistula ), and the third-longest Polish river after the Oder (which also flows through the Czech Republic and Germany). Its drainage basin covers 54,529 square kilometers (21,054 sq mi). The Warta
18-705: Is navigable from Kostrzyn nad Odrą to Konin - approximately half of its length. The Warta connects to the Vistula via its own tributary, the Noteć , and the Bydgoszcz Canal ( Polish : Kanał Bydgoski ) near the city of Bydgoszcz . The Warta rises in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland at Kromołów in Zawiercie , Silesian Voivodeship , flows through Łódź Land , Greater Poland and Lubusz Land , where it empties into
24-566: The Germans operated a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the village, whose prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians . Warta The river Warta ( / ˈ v ɑːr t ə / VAR -tə , Polish: [ˈvarta] ; German : Warthe [ˈvaʁtə] ; Latin : Varta ) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly through the Polish Plain in
30-553: The Oder near Kostrzyn at the border with Germany. The Greater Warta Basin defines the site of early Poland; it is said that the tribe of Western Polans ( Polish : Polanie ) settled the Warta Basin between the 6th and 8th century. The river is also mentioned in the second stanza of the Polish national anthem, " Poland Is Not Yet Lost ". This article related to a river in Poland is
36-467: The back of the neck in the nearby forest. The victims were buried in 28 mass graves. In the second stage of the same "aktion" conducted after October 26, 1939, the remaining patients were taken to a bunker in Fort VII and gassed with carbon monoxide released from steel bottles. A year later, additional 200 patients from Poznań were brought in and gassed at the same location. From August 1943 to January 1945
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