Mikoszewo
Village
A house in Mikoszewo
A house in Mikoszewo
Mikoszewo is located in Poland
Mikoszewo
Mikoszewo
Coordinates: 54°20′2″N 18°57′10″E / 54.33389°N 18.95278°E / 54.33389; 18.95278
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPomeranian
CountyNowy Dwór Gdański
GminaStegna
Elevation
3 m (10 ft)
Population
710
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationGND
Voivodeship roads

Mikoszewo [mikɔˈʂɛvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stegna, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 22 km (14 mi) east of the regional capital Gdańsk. Mikoszewo is where the longest Polish river, Vistula, empties into the Baltic Sea. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.

History

The village was part of the Kingdom of Poland, within which it was a possession of the city of Gdańsk, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship,[2] until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, when it was annexed by Prussia. In 1871 it became part of Germany, from 1920 to 1939 it was part of the Free City of Danzig, and from September 1939 to February 1945, during World War II, it was part of Nazi Germany. During the war, in 1945, it was the location of a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp, in which the Germans imprisoned 120 Norwegians as forced labour.[3] Following Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village was reintegrated with Poland.

References

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 129.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Gliński, Mirosław. "Podobozy i większe komanda zewnętrzne obozu Stutthof (1939–1945)". Stutthof. Zeszyty Muzeum (in Polish). 3: 180. ISSN 0137-5377.


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