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34 unusual facts about Pomeranian Voivodeship


Battle of Gniew

Sigismund III Vasa, besieging the city, moved his forces to the north, near Ciepłe, and then took positions on a steep bank.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660 Nassenhuben – 25 May 1741 Berlin), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer

In 1840 he married and acquired in 1852 the property Warbelow where he built a landscape park.

Hieronim Derdowski

Hieronim Derdowski (March 9, 1852, Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship, German Empire – August 13, 1902, Winona, Minnesota, USA) (Kashubian Hieronim Derdowsczi or Jarosz Derdowsczi), Kashubian-Polish intellectual and activist, was born to Kashubian parents in the Pomeranian village of Wiele.

Joachim von Blumenthal

His parents were Heinrich Albrecht von Blumenthal (1693–1767), Lord of Quackenburg, and Katharina von Lettow (1702–1743).

Koronowo

The city's history began with the establishment of an abbey founded by German Cistercians, relocated from Byszewo in 1288.

Krzysztof Gawara

Krzysztof Stanisław Gawara (born March 15, 1958 in Sienno) – is a former Polish football player and former manager of Legia Warsaw.

Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library

Within the framework of Scientific Libraries Consortium of Kujawsko-Pomorski Region, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń has started a long-term enterprise of building a digital library called Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library.

Kurkowo

Kurkowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, Poland

Kuyavian-Pomeranian

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland.

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

The province's sole international airport, Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport, is located in Bydgoszcz and has connections to a number of European destinations as well as Warsaw, which are all operated by either Irish carrier Ryanair or LOT Polish Airlines.

Lothar Bisky

Bisky was born in Zollbrück, Pomerania, Germany (now Korzybie, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), from where he came after 1945 as refugee to Schleswig-Holstein in northern West Germany.

Markowice, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

It was the birthplace (1848) of the well-known German Classical Philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, born of a German aristocratic family.

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung

It controlled directly the personnel at the main intercept stations at Ludwigsfelds and of the subsidiary stations at Treuenbrietzen and Lauf which is used to intercept encrypted diplomatic Morse network signals.

Oćwieka

Oćwieka, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the Gmina Gąsawa, Żnin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Parski

Parski, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grudziądz, Grudziądz County, Poland

Piaskowiec

Piaskowiec, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostaszewo, Poland

Przywidz

Przywidz, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Radunia

Near Krępiec (Krampitz), Radunia joins the Motława, a tributary to the Vistula (Weichsel) in Gdańsk.

Rudolf Arndt

Rudolf Arndt (31 March 1835 – 29 January 1900) was a German psychiatrist from Bialken, district of Marienwerder.

Rycerzewo

Rycerzewo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the Gmina Pakość, Inowrocław County, Poland

Sarnówek

Sarnówek, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cekcyn, Tuchola County, Poland

Sarnówka

Sarnówka, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubanie, Włocławek County, Poland

Sławno

Sławno is a railway junction on the major Gdańsk - Szczecin line, with access to secondary importance connections to Darłowo and Korzybie.

Świerkowo

Świerkowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Choceń

Szafarnia, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

A visitor to Szafarnia, aged 14 and 15, was Frédéric Chopin, who was a guest of Juliusz Dziewanowski, father of Chopin's schoolmate Dominik Dziewanowski.

The Blockhouse

The book and film appear to have been inspired by a possibly true story: on June 25, 1951, Time magazine reported that two German soldiers claimed to have been trapped for six years in an underground storehouse in Babie Doły, Poland.

Topole

Topole, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnice, Chojnice County, Poland

Treaty of Melno

In a telling episode shortly after the treaty had been signed, the Knights and the Poles disputed a watermill in Lubicz, a strategic post that had been turned into a fortress.

Trzepowo

Trzepowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in Gmina Przywidz district, Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Tuchola

Around 1785 there existed 148 households inside Tuchel, and the town owned both the village of Kelpin and the small estate named Wymislawe.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was born in Markowitz (Markowice), a small village near Hohensalza (Inowrocław), in the then Province of Posen (at present part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship), to a Germanized family of distant Polish ancestry.

Wicko

Wicko - Gmina Wicko, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)

Żabno, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

On December 25, 1991, following the fall of the Soviet Union, Makhnovist soldiers entered the region with the intention of overthrowing the government, and establishing an anarchist rule.


Bartosz Piasecki

He was born in Tczew in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland but moved to Norway when he was two years old.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Jablonski was born in the village of Nassenhuben (present-day Mokry Dwór, Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, Pomeranian Voivodeship), near Danzig.

Franciszek Rogaczewski

Franciszek Rogaczewski was born on 23 December 1892 in Lipinki, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland.

Gdańsk Voivodeship

Gdańsk Voivodeship (1) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–98, superseded by Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Gmina Świekatowo

Gmina Świekatowo contains the villages and settlements of Jania Góra, Lipienica, Lubania-Lipiny, Małe Łąkie, Stążki, Świekatowo, Szewno, Tuszyny and Zalesie Królewskie.

House of Kurnatowski

As magnates and members of the nobility, the Kurnatowski family has maintained extensive land holdings, including palaces in Biezdrowo, Dusina, Gościeszyn, Kotowo, and Żołędowo.

The family has maintained extensive wealth and land holdings, including palaces in Biezdrowo, Dusina, Gościeszyn, Kotowo, and Żołędowo.

Kaczkowo, Inowrocław County

Stanisław Tuczyński sold Kaczkowo, Skalmierowice, Mierogonowice, Jędrzejewo, Glinno, and Olęndry to Tomasz Przetocki in 1663.

Piaśnica

The Piaśnica wilderness, where the river begins, is a place of Polish and Jewish martyrology; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in Pomerania (after Stutthof) during World War II.

Słupsk Voivodeship

was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, previously part of Szczecin Voivodeship (1945–50) and Koszalin Voivodeship (1950–75), superseded (since 1999) by Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Sławno County).

Tricity, Poland

They are situated adjacent to one other, in a row, on the coast of the Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, in Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship), northern Poland.