Raszków

For other places with the same name, see Raszków (disambiguation).

Raszków
Rynek (Market Square) in Raszków
Coat of arms
Raszków
Coordinates: 51°43′00″N 17°43′35″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Ostrów Wielkopolski
Gmina	Raszków
Town rights	1444
Area
• Total	1.77 km2 (0.68 sq mi)
Population  (2006)
• Total	2,037
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	63-440
Vehicle registration	POS
Climate	Cfb
Website	http://www.raszkow.pl/

Raszków [ˈraʂkuf] (Template:Lang-de) is a town in Ostrów Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,043 inhabitants (2004).

After the second division of Poland in 1793, the city belonged to South Prussia until 1807, and then later to the Province of Posen. After the end of the First World War, Raszków became part of Poznan Voivodeship, in Poland. From 1975 to 1998, Raszków belonged to the Kalisz Voivodeship.

The Jewish population of the town was 214 people in 1839, but by 1905 it had dropped to 84 people, comprising 5% of the total population of 1,658.

Notable residents

• Berthold Kempinski (1843-1910), German hotelier
• Anna Jasińska (1867-1957), Polish activist
• Jan Bajoński (1888-1940), Polish gynaecologist, military officer, victim of the Katyn massacre during World War II
• Marian Kołodziej (1921-2009), Polish artist, scenic designer, prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps during World War II
• Tobiasz Pawlak (born 1995), Polish cyclist