Gorzkowice

History

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1335. The name comes from an Old Polish male name Gorzek. It was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Piotrków County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In September 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported over 13,000 Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków, where they were initially imprisoned, to Gorzkowice. Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children.

Most-observed species

• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  28
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  23
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  21
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  17
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  17
• Greater Celandine

  Chelidonium majus L. · Magnoliopsida
  16
• Common Crane

  Grus grus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  15
• Phacelia

  Phacelia tanacetifolia Benth. · Magnoliopsida
  13

Most recent

• M 4.5 — 2014-11-30
  8 km SSW of Szczerców, Poland
• M 2.6 — 2008-11-27
  3 km NE of Miasteczko ?l?skie, Poland
• M 3.5 — 2008-10-31
  1 km SE of ?wierklaniec, Poland
• M 2.8 — 2008-07-14
  4 km SE of Szczerców, Poland
• M 2.5 — 2007-10-22
  4 km ESE of Opatów, Poland
• M 2.6 — 2007-05-05
  2 km NE of Krzepice, Poland