Osieczna

Osieczna is a town in Leszno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in western Poland, with 2,131 inhabitants (2010). It is located on the northern shore of the Łoniewskie Lake.

==History== thumb|left|Old post mills in the interbellum As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. It was a private town, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793, it was annexed by Prussia. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was reannexed by Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. The populace was subjected to Germanisation policies.