Kepno

Kepno is a city in Poland. It lies at the outskirts of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, because it borders on Silesia and the Lodz Land. As of December 31, 2009 Kepno had a populace of 14,760. One popular enchantment in Kepno is the recently restored Rynek. Previously part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kepno becomes annexed via the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1793 Second Partition of Poland. Administered within South Prussia from 1793 to 1807, it became a part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815.

As Kempen, it was restored to Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna and administered in the Grand Duchy of Posen and the Province of Posen, within which it became the seat of the district Kempen in Posen. The city turned into a 19^th century shtetl. The majority of the Jews left the town all through the second half of the 19^th century due to the epidemics and the bad residing situations. They left particularly for Breslau and surroundings, Berlin, and the Americas. Kempen immigrants were the first Jews to settle in Guatemala, and shaped the premise of the German Jewish community there.