Połczyno, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

54°42′30″N 18°21′23″E / 54.70833°N 18.35639°E / 54.70833; 18.35639Country

PolandVoivodeshipPomeranianCountyPuckGminaPuckPopulation

1,036 (2,010)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Vehicle registrationGPU

Połczyno [pɔu̯ˈt͡ʂɨnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Puck and 42 km (26 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Połczyno was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[2] There is a primary school in Połczyno, founded in 1750.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939 and 1940, the Germans expelled several Polish families, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 101.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 54, 70. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.