Gruczno

Gruczno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świecie, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

==History== thumb|left|Historic timber framed mill Gruczno was the site of a medieval Polish stronghold. The name of the village comes from the Polish word gród, which means "stronghold". During the fragmentation period, it was located within the Duchy of Pomerania (eastern) within the fragmented Polish realm. The oldest known mention of a parish priest in Gruczno comes from 1238. In 1290, Duke Mestwin II sold the village to the Archbishop of Gniezno. Gruczno was visited by several Archbishops of Gniezno, and it was administered by the Archdiocese until the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland, when it was annexed by Prussia. Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the village.