Swarzewo
Swarzewo [sfaˈʐɛvɔ] (Kashubian: Swôrzewò, German: Schwarzau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north of Puck and 47 km (29 mi) north of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
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 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Swarzewo | |
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| Coordinates: 54°45′31″N 18°23′47″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Puck |
| Gmina | Gmina Puck |
| Population | 988 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GPU |
The village has a population of 988.
History
Swarzewo was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Swarzewo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion,[3] and in 1942 the Germans expelled several Polish families, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] The expelled Poles were enslaved as forced labour to serve Germans in other villages in the region.[4]
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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.
- The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 46.
- Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 119. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
