Mierzyce

Mierzyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wierzchlas, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Wierzchlas, south-east of Wieluń, and south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

History

The first church was mentioned in documents from 1460. In 1827, the village had a population of 307.
During the German occupation of Poland, in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland. Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.