Stara Kiszewa

Stara Kiszewa
Village
Saint Martin Church
Stara Kiszewa
Coordinates: 53°59′24″N 18°10′9″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Kościerzyna
Gmina	Stara Kiszewa
Elevation	117.5 m (385.5 ft)
Population	1,480
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Stara Kiszewa [ˈstara kiˈʂɛva] is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Stara Kiszewa.[1] It lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south-east of Kościerzyna and 52 km (32 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.

Stara Kiszewa was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), on November 19, 1939, the Germans murdered 12 Polish farmers from Stara Kiszewa in a massacre in the nearby village Nowy Wiec.[3] Poles were also subjected to expulsions, carried out in late 1939 and January 1940 and in 1942.[4]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, pp. 110-111 (in Polish)
3. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 155 (in Polish)
4. Maria Wardzyńska, Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945, IPN, Warsaw, 2017, pp. 52, 117 (in Polish)