Osielsko o is a village in Bydgoszcz County

Bydgoszcz County

Bydgoszcz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Bydgoszcz, although...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

-Transportation:Transportation infrastructure is of critical importance to the voivodeship's economy. Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node point in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz in order to reach the major ports on the Baltic Sea...

, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Osielsko

Gmina Osielsko

Gmina Osielsko is a rural gmina in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Osielsko, which lies approximately north-east of Bydgoszcz....

. It lies 9 km (6 mi) north-east of Bydgoszcz.

The village has a population of 3,482.

History

Osielsko is mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography as Askaukalis.

Before World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, Osielsko belonged to Kreis Bromberg

Kreis Bromberg

Kreis Bromberg was one of several Kreise 1818-75 in the northern administrative district of Bromberg, in the Prussian province of Posen, later divided into Stadtkreis and Landkreis Bromberg, reconstructed under Nazi occupation of Poland 1939-1945 in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.- Communities :The...

 in the Province of West Prussia, Prussia, Germany. Its German name was Osielsk.