Mokre, Chojnice County
Mokre | |
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Village | |
Mokre | |
| Coordinates: 53°50′21″N 17°56′59″E / 53.83917°N 17.94972°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Chojnice |
| Gmina | Czersk |
| Population | 231 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GCH |
Mokre [ˈmɔkrɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6 km (4 mi) north of Czersk, 31 km (19 mi) north-east of Chojnice, and 74 km (46 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
History
Mokre was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Mokierski and Osowski families of Leliwa coat of arms, administratively located in the Tuchola County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, some local Poles were massacred by the occupiers in nearby Łukowo,[3] and some were expelled, with their houses and farms handed over to Germans in accordance with the Lebensraum policy.[4]
References
- ^ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). Select Miejscowości (SIMC) tab, select fragment (min. 3 znaki), enter town name in the field below, click WYSZUKAJ (Search)
- ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 126.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Hamerska, Małgorzata (2012). "Miejsca pamięci narodowej w powiecie chojnickim". Zeszyty Chojnickie (in Polish). No. 27. Chojnice: Chojnickie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk. p. 70.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 55. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.