Lutomiersk
Lutomiersk is a town in Pabianice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Lutomiersk. It lies approximately north-west of Pabianice and west of the regional capital Łódź. It is located in the Sieradz Land.
The town has an approximate population of 2,000.
History
Lutomiersk was granted town rights in 1274 by Duke Leszek II the Black from the Piast dynasty. It was a private town, administratively located in the Szadek County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province, [Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province] of the Kingdom of Poland.During the German occupation of Poland, in 1940, the occupiers carried out Expulsion of [Poles by Nazi Germany|expulsions of Poles], who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. A local Polish teacher was among the victims of a massacre of Poles from the region perpetrated by the Germans in 1939 in nearby Łagiewniki.