Bytyń, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Bytyń [ˈbɨtɨɲ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaźmierz, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Kaźmierz, 14 km (9 mi) south of Szamotuły, and 29 km (18 mi) west of the regional capital Poznań.

For other places with the same name, see Bytyń.
Bytyń
Village
Panorama of Bytyń with the Immaculate Conception church
Panorama of Bytyń with the Immaculate Conception church
Bytyń is located in Poland
Bytyń
Bytyń
Coordinates: 52°29′N 16°31′E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountySzamotuły
GminaKaźmierz
First mentioned1322
Population
540
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPSZ
Primary airportPoznań–Ławica Airport

The landmarks of the village are the Gothic Immaculate Conception church and the Niegolewski Palace.

History
Oxen of Bytyń

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1322. Bytyń was a private village owned by Polish nobility, including the Konarzewski and Niegolewski families, and was administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]

In 1873 a unique arsenical bronze treasure from the Funnelbeaker culture, dating from the second half of the 4th millennium BC was discovered in the village, including carved figures of oxen known as the Oxen of Bytyń, which are now part of the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Poznań.[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in November 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 72 Poles from the county in the Bytyń Forest as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4]

Notable people

References
  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
  3. Hansen, Svend (2014). "Gold and silver in the Maikop Culture". Tagungen desLandesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle. 11 (2): 389–410. Bovine figurines that can be dated to the second half of the 4th millennium BC are found in another, completely different cultural milieu. One well known example is the yoked team of oxen (Fig. 21) found in Bytýn, woj. wielkopolskie, Poland; it is made of arsenical bronze. The figurines were found together with six flat axes near a large stone. The objects can be dated to the second half of the 4th millennium BC. They thus belong to a time during which a series of hoards containing metal objects are known in the southern and western Baltic sphere (...) These animal figurines were all made using lost-wax casting.
  4. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 199.


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