Bolszewo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Wejherowo |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wejherowo |
Coordinates: | 54.6242°N 18.1753°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 7064 |
Registration Plate: | GWE |
Bolszewo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wejherowo, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) north-west of Wejherowo and 420NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Bolszewo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion,[2] A local teacher was among Polish teachers murdered in the Dachau concentration camp.[3]
The village is home to the football club Cassubian Bolszewo who compete in Klasa B.[4]