Stawiszyn ([staˈvʲiʂɨn]) is a town in Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 1,569 inhabitants (2006). It is the urban part of the larger Stawiszyn Commune, a mixed urban-rural municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska). The town has a land area of only 0.99 km², and is the smallest town in geographical area in Poland.
Stawiszyn was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Kalisz County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[1] The 1st Polish National Cavalry Brigade was stationed in the town.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), two local Polish teachers were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp and murdered there.[3] In 1943, the occupiers renamed the town to Stavensheim in attempt to erase traces of Polish origin.