Sokołowo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Września |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Września |
Coordinates: | 52.3469°N 17.5664°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 1007 |
Sokołowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Września, within Września County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 2km (01miles) north-west of Września and 450NaN0 east of the regional capital Poznań.
The village existed before 1523.[2] In the past it was owned by the Polish noble Poniński family, including participant of the November Uprising of 1830–1831, .[2]
During the Greater Poland uprising, on May 2, 1848, Sokołowo was the site the, in which the Polish insurgents commanded by general, poet and historian Ludwik Mierosławski won against the Prussians.[3] Poles from the nearby town of Września erected a monument at the site several months later despite Prussian rule.[3]