Nieszawa (Polish pronunciation: [ɲɛˈʂava]; German: Nessau) is a town and a commune in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. As of June 30, 2014, the town has a population of 1,985 people. It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia.

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Nieszawa
Town Hall on Market Square
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 52°50′12″N 18°54′05″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Kuyavian-Pomeranian
County	Aleksandrów
Gmina	Nieszawa (urban gmina)
Town rights	1460
Area
• Total	9.79 km2 (3.78 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population  (2014)
• Total	1,985
• Density	200/km2 (530/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	87-730
Area code	+48 54
Car plates	CAL

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The Statutes of Nieszawa, enacted in this town at 1454, have a significance in Polish legal and social history.

Nieszawa was granted town rights in 1460, and in the following centuries it was a royal town of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded and then occupied by Germany. The Germans immediately carried mass arrests of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[1] Nieszawa was one of the sites of executions of Poles carried out by Germany in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[1][2] In December 1939, the Germans also expelled around 1,000 Poles from the town.^[1] Further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1940.^[3] Houses, offices, shops and workshops of expelled Poles were handed over to Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[4] In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s.

The most important historic landmarks and sights of the town are the Gothic Church of Saint Hedwig (High Duchess consort of Poland), built in the 15th century, which possesses rich Gothic-Renaissance-Baroque interior, the Baroque Franciscan Monastery with the Church of the Invention of the Holy Cross, the Stanisław Noakowski Museum dedicated to Polish architect and artist Stanisław Noakowski, located in his former home, and the historic market square filled with old townhouses and the town hall.

• Stanisław Noakowski (1867-1928), Polish architect, watercolorist and art historian
• Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876–1945), Polish writer, explorer, university professor and anti-Communist activist
• Jan Woźnicki [pl] (1881-1945), Polish teacher and parliamentarian

• Stanisław Noakowski Museum located in his former home
• Monument to January Uprising participants
• Baroque Invention of the Holy Cross church
• Post office