Łomnica, Nowy Tomyśl County

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Łomnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zbąszyń, within Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 km north-east of Zbąszyń, 11 km west of Nowy Tomyśl, and 65 km west of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Łomnica was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. During World War II, on 23 January 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners from the dissolved camp in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp stopped in Łomnica. The next day, the Germans committed a massacre of 17 prisoners.

Transport

The A2 motorway passes nearby, north of the village.

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