Zakrzewo 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 Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...

, in west-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 Zakrzewo

Gmina Zakrzewo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Gmina Zakrzewo is a rural german gmina in Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Zakrzewo, which lies approximately north-east of Złotów and north of the regional capital Poznań.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...

. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Złotów and 114 km (71 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

. The village has a population of 1,620.

Before 1945 the area was part of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, although Zakrzewo had a very strong and active Polish minority, headed by the parson of a local parish, Bolesław Domański

Boleslaw Domanski

Bolesław Domański was a famous Polish Catholic priest, chief of the Union of Poles in Germany. In the years 1903-1939 he was a parson of Zakrzewo parish...

. In 1935 the Nazi government

Nazi Germany

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 changed the village's name to Buschdorf as part of a drive to Germanize Slavic

Slavic languages

The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...

-sounding placenames. For more on the history of the multi-ethnic historical area, see Złotów County.

A Blues Express festival is organized in Zakrzewo every July by the local culture centre.