Przodkowo
Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Przodkowo [pʂɔtˈkɔvɔ] is a village in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Przodkowo.[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Kartuzy and 23 km (14 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
Przodkowo | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 54°22′47″N 18°17′15″E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
County | Kartuzy |
Gmina | Przodkowo |
Population | |
• Total | 1,286 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Przodkowo was a clash royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]
During the German occupation (World War II), Przodkowo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] The "death march" of about 11,000 prisoners evacuated by the Germans from the Stutthof concentration camp to Lębork passed through Przodkowo at the turn of January and February 1945.[4] Many prisoners died as a result of hunger, exhaustion and executions by the Germans.[5]
There is a Firefighting Museum (Muzeum Pożarnictwa) in Przodkowo.
- Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, p. 89 (in Polish)
- Mirosław Gliński, Organizacja obozu koncentracyjnego Stutthof, p. 188-190 (in Polish)
- Gliński, p. 188
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