The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1337, when it was part of the
Piast-ruled
Kingdom of Poland. Tur was a private village of
Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province. During the
German occupation of Poland (
World War II), in 1940, the Germans
expelled several
Polish families from the village. Poles were mostly deported to the
Kraków District of the
General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to
German colonists as part of the
Lebensraum policy. In October 1941, the camp was dissolved and the POWs were relocated to the
Stalag XXI-D in
Poznań and its
forced labour subcamps. ==References==