Lisewo

Lisewo [liˈsɛvɔ] is a village in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-central Poland.

[1] The village is the seat of Gmina Lisewo, a part of Chełmno County.

Lisewo municipality spreads over an area of 8620 ha and is inhabited by 5,500 people, of which most are farmers.

[2] Local Polish teachers were murdered by the Germans in a massacre of Poles committed in nearby Klamry, also as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

The village itself occurs in the oldest known documents under the name of Lissow in 1293, Lissaw/Lysaw in 1408 and Leysaw, Leissan, Lysow, Lissowo in 1530.