Zagórów

The town's name is of Old Polish origin and comes from the word zagór.[1] The oldest known mention of the settlement comes from a document from 1240.[1] Zagórów received town rights from King Władysław II Jagiełło in 1407, however, these rights were implemented only in 1445.[1] Administratively it was part of the Kalisz Voivodeship of the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. The town suffered as a result of the 17th-century Polish–Swedish wars.[1]

It was annexed by Prussia during the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Regained by the Poles in 1807, as part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, it passed to the Russian Partition of Poland in 1815.[1] Polish insurgents were active in the area during the January Uprising in 1863, and a battle was fought in the nearby village of Myszaków.[1] As part of Anti-Polish repressions after the fallen uprising, the tsarist administration stripped Zagórów of its town rights in 1869.[1] Town rights were restored in 1919, after Poland regained independence.[1] In the interbellum the local economy revived.[1]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 21-22, 1939, 10 Polish inhabitants of Zagórów, former participants of the Polish Greater Poland uprising (1918–19), were murdered by the Germans in the forest in the nearby village of Grabina.[2] The Germans expelled Poles to the so-called General Government, and in 1940 they created a ghetto for Jews in the town, to which people were also brought from other places.[1] After the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942, Jews were murdered in the forest near Kleczew. In Zagórów, the Germans murdered about 570 Poles and Jews.[1]

Producent okien Zagórów, Okna, Rolety, Moskitiery