Bolimów b is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Skierniewice County

Skierniewice County

Skierniewice County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Skierniewice, although the city is...

, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the Gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Bolimów

Gmina Bolimów

Gmina Bolimów is a rural gmina in Skierniewice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Bolimów, which lies approximately north of Skierniewice and north-east of the regional capital Łódź....

. It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Skierniewice

Skierniewice

Skierniewice is a town in central Poland with 49,132 inhabitants , situated in the Łódź Voivodship , previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodship . It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situated almost exactly half-way between Łódź and Warsaw.Skierniewice gained municipal rights...

 and 58 km (36 mi) north-east of the regional capital Łódź. The village has a population of 930. It gives its name to the protected area

Protected area

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 known as Bolimów Landscape Park

Bolimów Landscape Park

Bolimów Landscape Park is a protected area in central Poland, established in 1986, covering an area of ....

.

Its history dates back to at least the 15th century, when it was considered a town, but it lost its city rights around 1870.

It was the place where poison gas weapons were used for the first time, during First World War, when on 31 January 1915, during the Battle of Bolimov

Battle of Bolimov

The Battle of Bolimov was an inconclusive battle of World War I fought on January 31, 1915 between Germany and Russia and considered a preliminary to the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes.- Battle :...

, the German army

German Army

The German Army is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Following the disbanding of the Wehrmacht after World War II, it was re-established in 1955 as the Bundesheer, part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr along with the Navy and the Air Force...

 shelled Russian army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 positions with xylyl bromide

Xylyl bromide

Xylyl bromide, also known as methylbenzyl bromide or T-stoff, is a poisonous organic chemical compound with the formula C8H9Br, formerly used as a tear gas...

; the attack was relatively unsuccessful due to low temperature which prevented the gas from vaporising and spreading.

A much larger attack with poison gas occurred in the nearby area on 31 May 1915, and Russian army suffered much higher casualties (over several thousand dead).