Bożepole Królewskie

Bożepole Królewskie
Village
Bożepole Królewskie
Coordinates: 54°6′57″N 18°25′8″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Starogard
Gmina	Skarszewy
Population	236
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Bożepole Królewskie [bɔʐɛˈpɔlɛ kruˈlɛfskʲɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Skarszewy, 19 km (12 mi) north-west of Starogard Gdański, and 32 km (20 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

Bożepole was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[2] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, and restored to Poland, after Poland regained independence in 1918.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the Germans murdered several Polish farmers from Bożepole in large massacres carried out in the forest near Skarszewy (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[3] In 1942 Germans carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[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, p. 110 (in Polish)
3. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 153 (in Polish)
4. Maria Wardzyńska, Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945, IPN, Warsaw, 2017, p. 117 (in Polish)