Markówka

Markówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobroń, within Pabianice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Dobroń, west of Pabianice, and south-west of the regional capital Łódź.
The village was founded in 1802 as a colony of German settlers, they called it Hochweiler. In 1822, 167 people lived here, at the end of the century - 288 people, and in 1921 - 222, of whom 211 professed Protestantism. The village belonged to the Evangelical parish in Pabianice. After World War II the village was abandoned as the inhabitants fled West, a state farm was established here.