Toplin

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

History

The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Toplin was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Potocki family, administratively located in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. In 1827, it had a population of 198.
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.