Lubraniec
Lubraniec is a town in the Włocławek County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland, with 3,130 inhabitants. It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia.
Geography
History
Lubraniec was the ancestral seat of the Lubrański noble family. Lubraniec was granted town rights in 1509 by King Sigismund I the Old. It was a private town, administratively located in the Brześć Kujawski County in the Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship in the Greater [Poland Province of the Polish Crown|Greater Poland Province] of the Kingdom of Poland. After the Lubrański family became extinct, the town passed to the Dąbski family. Paweł Dąbski, castellan of Brześć Kujawski, granted various privileges to local Jews, confirmed in 1780 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski.Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In 1941, the occupiers carried out expulsions of 300 Poles, who were deported to Forced [labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour] in Germany, while their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.