Borowo, Kościan County

For other places with the same name, see Borowo.

Borowo [bɔˈrɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czempiń, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1]

Borowo
Village
Historic manor in Borowo
Borowo
Coordinates: 52°7′N 16°47′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Kościan
Gmina	Czempiń
Population	580
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

Borowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.^[2] In the mid-19th century it was owned by the Mizerski family.^[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the principal of the local primary school, Józef Wojciechowski, was murdered in a public execution of 18 Poles carried out in the nearby town of Kościan on 23 October 1939, by the Einsatzgruppe VI as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[4] Inhabitants of Borowo were also among the victims of a massacre of 45 Poles carried out on 7 November 1939, in the forest near Kościan.^[5]