Koźmin, Pomeranian Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Koźmin.

Koźmin
Village
Koźmin
Coordinates: 54°0′28″N 18°18′21″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Starogard
Gmina	Skarszewy
Population	468
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	GST

Koźmin [ˈkɔʑmin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-west of Skarszewy, 16 km (10 mi) west of Starogard Gdański, and 46 km (29 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Koźmin was a private church village of the monastery in Pelplin, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish Crown.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1941–1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to the Potulice concentration camp, and then deported either to forced labour in Germany or to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while their farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 120.
3. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 107, 117. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.