Piechcin (german: Hansdorf) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Barcin __NOTOC__ Gmina Barcin is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Żnin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Barcin, which lies approximately east of Żnin and south of Bydgoszcz. T ...

, within

Żnin County __NOTOC__ Żnin County ( pl, powiat żniński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local go ...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of

Barcin Barcin (german: Bartschin, 1943-45 Bartelstädt) is a town in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Żnin County. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 7,255. History Barcin was founded in the 12th century, when it was par ...

, east of Żnin, and south of

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

. The village has a population of 2,987. A

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

quarry provides limestone to the

LafargeHolcim Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates flagship division of the Holcim Group. The original company was merged on 10 July 2015 with Lafarge to form LafargeHolcim as the new company and renamed to Holcim Group in 202 ...

cement factory, which is also situated there. This quarry has been operational since 1860, and was acquired by the Lafarge Group in 1996. The village is also known for its another flooded limestone quarry, which is available for diving. The

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Our Lady of Częstochowa and St. Barbara (Polish: Parafia Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej i świętej Barbary) is situated in Piechcin.

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