Podlesie Kościelne

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Podlesie Kościelne

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Podlesie Kościelne, Wągrowiec county, Poland.jpg

| image_caption = Historic wooden church of Saint Anne in Podlesie Kościelne

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| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Greater Poland

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Wągrowiec

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Mieścisko

| coordinates = {{coord|52|44|N|17|18|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = right

| timezone = CET

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| timezone_DST = CEST

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Podlesie Kościelne {{IPAc-pl|p|o|d|'|l|e|ś|e|-|k|o|ś|'|ć|e|l|n|e}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mieścisko, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|11|km|mi|0}} south-east of Wągrowiec and {{convert|46|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north-east of the regional capital Poznań.

There is a historic wooden church of Saint Anne from 1712 in the village.

History

Podlesie was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.{{cite book|author= |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=2017|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences|page=1b}}

According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 52, entirely Polish by nationality and Roman Catholic by confession.{{cite book|author=|title=Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|volume=X|year=1926|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=108}}

During the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, the Wehrmacht carried out a massacre of nine Poles in the village.{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=IPN|page=95}}

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