Bukowiec [buˈkɔvjɛt͡s] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wągrowiec, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

The village was mentioned in a medieval document from 1282, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland.

Bukowiec was a private church village, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

[2] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on 8 December 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 107 Poles in the nearby forest.

[3] Among the victims were activists, participants of the Greater Poland uprising (1918–19), teachers, students, farmers and merchants from various settlements from the region.