Szczodrowo | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Szczodrowo | |
| Coordinates: 54°6′7″N 18°22′4″E / 54.10194°N 18.36778°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Starogard |
| Gmina | Skarszewy |
| Population | 382 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Szczodrowo [ʂt͡ʂɔˈdrɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Skarszewy, 19 km (12 mi) north-west of Starogard Gdański, and 35 km (22 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
The settlement Przerębska Huta is part of the village.[2]
Szczodrowo was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[3]
During the occupation of Poland (World War II), many Poles from Szczodrowo were murdered by the Germans in 1939 in large massacres in the forest between Skarszewy and Więckowy.[4]
References
- ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ↑ Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części, Dz. U. z 2013 r. poz. 200
- ↑ Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, p. 113 (in Polish)
- ↑ Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 153 (in Polish)
