Chałupy

Chałupy (Kashubian: Chalëpë, German: Ceynowa or Ziegenhagen) is a Polish village and seaside resort with conditions favorable for windsurfing and kitesurfing, in Gmina Władysławowo. It is situated between Władysławowo and Kuźnica on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. Its population in 2009 was 376.

See also: Chałupy, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Chałupy
Village
Local beach
Chałupy
Coordinates: 54°46′N 18°31′E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPomeranian
CountyPuck
GminaWładysławowo
Population
 (2009)
376
Postal code
84-120
Area code(s)+48 58

In 1836 the village was the site of one of the last, if not the last, lynchings related to accusations of sorcery, when a widow Krystyna Ceynowa was killed by a mob after being accused of being a witch.[1]

In 1939 the village saw some fighting during the battle of Hel. The Germans captured it on 25 September, and around the same time, in its vicinity, Polish military engineers detonated torpedo warheads, temporarily transforming the Peninsula's far end into an island.[2][3]

Before 1 January 2015, Chałupy was part of the town of Władysławowo.[4]

Toward the last years of communist rule in Poland the locality became famous as the site of a government-legal nudist beach.

References
  1. Jóźwiak, Krzysztof (15 October 2016). "Procesy czarownic w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów". www.rp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  2. Komorowski, Krzysztof, ed. (2009). "Hel (1 IX-2 X 1939)". Boje Polskie 1939–1945. Przewodnik Encyklopedyczny [Poland's Battles, 1939–1945: an Encyclopedic Guide] (in Polish). Warsaw: Bellona. pp. 121–124. ISBN 9788311103573.
  3. Commager, Henry Steele (2004). The Story of the Second World War. Sterling, VA: Potomac Books, Inc. pp. 16–19. ISBN 9781574887419.
  4. Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 29 lipca 2014 r. w sprawie połączenia gmin, ustalenia granic niektórych gmin i miast, nadania niektórym miejscowościom statusu miasta oraz zmiany siedziby władz gminy, Dz. U. z 2014 r. poz. 1023 (2014-07-29)


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