Błotnik | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Gdańsk |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Cedry Wielkie |
Coordinates: | 54.2758°N 18.875°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Population Total: | 344 |
Błotnik is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cedry Wielkie, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north-east of Cedry Wielkie, 160NaN0 east of Pruszcz Gdański, and 190NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
Blotnik was formerly known as Schmerblock and was part of Kreis Danzig-Niederung during the existence of the Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) in the period from 1919 to 1939 and part of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945.