Urbanice, Poland

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

History

In the 16th century, the inhabitants of Urbanice were minor nobility. In 1827, the village had a population of 96.
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.