Witkowo was first mentioned in a document from 1363. It was a private village of
Polish nobility of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the
Kalisz Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province. In 1676, it was granted
town rights. Following the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland, which started
World War II in September 1939, the town was
occupied by Germany until 1945. Local units of the
Grey Ranks and
Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa Polish resistance organizations were founded already in 1939, and the latter became part of the larger
Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich organization in 1940. Klemens Jan Grygiel, commander of the local unit of the Grey Ranks, and Edward Paulus, founder of the local unit of the
Union of Armed Struggle, were arrested by the Germans in mid-1942, and eventually sentenced to death and executed in
Rawicz the following year. ==Cuisine==