Łopatki [wɔˈpatki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Książki, within Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

[1] In the distant past and in the period of the first Piasts this area was covered with impenetrable forests and impassable bogs, full of wild animals, like any other part of Poland at that time.

He writes that Łopatki was under the control of the Teutonic commander who resided in Kowalewo and then in Grudziądz.

On 20 April 1769 Łopatki was given to Mikołaj Czapski, then the estate was requisitioned by the Prussian government.

When the estate Łopatki became the owner of a patron land, it was obliged in 1853 to rebuild a church.

When German settlers where founding the village Niemieckie Łopatki, sołectwo was ruled by Rafał Prądzyński.

[2] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, it was the site of the Łopatki massacre [pl], in which the German police, SS and Selbstschutz murdered over 2,000 Polish inhabitants of the nearby town of Wąbrzeźno and its surroundings (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).