Wysin

Wysin
Village
All Saints church in Wysin
Wysin
Coordinates: 54°6′1″N 18°17′12″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Kościerzyna
Gmina	Liniewo
Population	548
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	GKS

Wysin [ˈvɨɕin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Liniewo, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Liniewo, 20 km (12 mi) east of Kościerzyna, and 38 km (24 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Memorial plaque at the former Nazi German transit camp for Poles

Human settlement dates back to prehistoric times. There are two archaeological sites from the Iron Age: a cemetery in the village, and a former settlement near the village.[2]

Wysin was a private church village of the Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish Crown.[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, Wysin was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans as part of the Intelligenzaktion,[4] and Poles from Wysin were also executed in the forest between Skarszewy and Więckowy.[5] The Germans also expelled the majority of the local Polish population, and established a transit camp for Poles expelled from the region in Wysin.[6] In the camp, the Germans segregated the expellees, who were then either deported in freight trains to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland) or sent as forced labour to Germany or to new German colonists in the region.

Education

The J. Sobisz Primary School (Szkoła Podstawowa im.Ks.J.Sobisza) is located in Wysin.[2]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. "Wieś Wysin (pomorskie) w liczbach". Polska w liczbach (in Polish). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
3. Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 121.
4. The Pomeranian Crime 1939. Warsaw: IPN. 2018. p. 43.
5. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 153.
6. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.