Biała, Zgierz County

Biała is a village in central Poland in the region of Łódź. It is located about 8 north of Zgierz and 15 km north of Łódź. The villages: Biała, Cyprianów, Jeżewo, Kolonia Głowa and Leonów belong to sołectwo Biała ( 642 inhabitants).

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Place name

The place name Biała means " white sand ".

At the time of the German occupation of Poland in World War II, from 1943 to 1945, the place was called Bill 's home.

History

The area around Biała was already inhabited in prehistoric times, because in the vicinity of the village a Roman period cemetery of the Przeworsk culture was excavated.

End of the 19th century there were in the village and the German settlement of 57 houses and 670 inhabitants. Biała was the seat of the former Gmina Biała, whose school also was in place. In addition, there were four mills and a branch church, which belonged to the Catholic parish Gieczno, ( probably the still in place located old wooden church of Saints Peter and Paul).

The German settlement Biała

Near the village of Biala a settlement was in the first half of the 19th century, according to different data in 1820 or not until 1840, by German farmers Pomeranian origin founded. In the German literature, this settlement is also known under the name Biała.

The German settlers were Protestant and attended the Protestant church founded in 1824 in Zgierz. In 1842 they established together with the Germans from Głowa, Wola Branicka, Leonów, Cyprianów and Dobra one a Protestant cemetery in Biała.

In 1863, a German -language Kantoratsschule was founded, was educated in the least until 1919 in German language. In 1925, the language of instruction was Polish. The original wooden school house was replaced in 1887 by a massive school and prayer house, which burnt down in 1911. After the reconstruction of the building was destroyed again during the Battle of Łódź in the First World War. In the school garden two mass graves of German soldiers has been created, which were later reburied at a cemetery collection.

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