Nieszawa (Polish pronunciation: [ɲɛˈʂava]) is a town and a commune in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

[2] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded and then occupied by Germany.

[5] Houses, offices, shops and workshops of expelled Poles were handed over to Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.

[6] In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.

The most important historic landmarks and sights of the town are the Gothic Church of Saint Hedwig (High Duchess consort of Poland), built in the 15th century, which possesses rich Gothic-Renaissance-Baroque interior, the Baroque Franciscan Monastery with the Church of the Invention of the Holy Cross, the Stanisław Noakowski Museum dedicated to Polish architect and artist Stanisław Noakowski, located in his former home, and the historic market square filled with old townhouses and the town hall.