Wapno ' is a village

Village

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 in Wągrowiec County

Wagrowiec County

Wągrowiec County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Wągrowiec, which...

, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...

, close to the border with Żnin County

Znin County

Żnin County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Żnin, which lies...

. Wapno is Polish for Lime and reflects the large gypsum and lime

Lime (mineral)

Lime is a general term for calcium-containing inorganic materials, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides predominate. Strictly speaking, lime is calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name for a single mineral of the CaO composition, occurring very rarely...

 deposits in the area. There are also large deposits of rock salt

Halite

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 that were mined extensively beginning in the nineteenth century.

Wapno lies in the so-called Gniezno Lake District, and is close to several lakes. The town is 20 km north of the town of Wągrowiec

Wagrowiec

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.

Municipal organization

The present municipality (gmina

Gmina

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) of Wapno includes the following hamlet

Hamlet

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s in addition to the central village of Wapno:

• Aleksandrowo
  Aleksandrowo, Wagrowiec County
  Aleksandrowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wapno, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Wapno, north-east of Wągrowiec, and north-east of the regional capital Poznań.The village has a population of...
  
  
• Graboszewo
  Graboszewo, Wagrowiec County
  Graboszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wapno, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.-References:...
  
  
• Komasin
  Komasin
  Komasin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wapno, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Wapno, north-east of Wągrowiec, and north-east of the regional capital Poznań....
  
  
• Podolin
  Podolin
  Podolin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wapno, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Wapno, north-east of Wągrowiec, and north-east of the regional capital Poznań.The village is first mentioned in an...
  
  
• Rusiec
  Rusiec, Greater Poland Voivodeship
  Rusiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wapno, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Wapno, north-east of Wągrowiec, and north-east of the regional capital Poznań.The village has a population of...
  
  
• Srebrna Góra
  Srebrna Góra (Wapno)
  Srebrna Góra is a village in the Wapno area. It is located in the county of Wągrowiec in the western-central territorial division of the Greater Poland Voivodship....
  
  
• Stołężyn

History of Wapno

The town is first mentioned in 1299, in an entry in the Codex Diplomaticus Majoris Poloniae, which records the appearance of one Count

Count

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 Adam of Wapno at a trial in the court of one Count Rozal, concerning the rights of the Cistercian monastery in Łękno vis-a-vis the village of Dębogóra

Debogóra

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. At that time, Wapno was part of the Kuyavia

Kuyavia

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n principality headed by Duke

Duke

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 Władyslaw I Łokietek (Vladislaus the Short), who became the second king of Poland upon his election in 1330.

Under Prussian rule, Wapno was part of the Province of Posen

Province of Posen

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 (Prowincja Poznańska), Bydgoszcz District

Bydgoszcz District

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. After World War I, it became part of the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

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. Under the German General Government

General Government

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 (1939-1945), it was briefly (1944-1945) renamed Salzhof — "Saltville."

On September 29, 1977, a saltmine underneath the town center collapsed, forcing the evacuation of around 1000 residents.

External links

• Official Site (in Polish, includes photos)
• Wapno School (in Polish, includes photos)
• Wapno History (in Polish, includes photos)