Kleczew

Kleczew
Saint Andrew Church
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Kleczew
Coordinates: 52°22′16″N 18°10′35″E / 52.37111°N 18.17639°E / 52.37111; 18.17639
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Konin
Gmina	Kleczew
Area
• Total	6.68 km2 (2.58 sq mi)
Population  (2006)
• Total	4,173
• Density	620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	62-540
Vehicle registration	PKN
Voivodeship road
Website	http://www.kleczew.pl

Kleczew [ˈklɛt͡ʂɛf] is a town in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, central Poland.

Kleczew received town rights in 1366. It was a private town administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[1] A route connecting Warsaw and Poznań with Dresden ran through the town in the 18th century and King Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route.^[2]

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. A local Polish teacher was among the victims of a massacre of Poles, committed by the Germans in Konin on 10 November 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[3] The Polish resistance movement was active in Kleczew. Polish underground press was distributed in the town.^[4]

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