Chełm, Gdańsk Explained

Chełm
Settlement Type:Gdańsk District
Coordinates:54.3247°N 18.6158°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Poland
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Pomeranian
Subdivision Type2:County/City
Subdivision Name2:Gdańsk
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:3.89
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:32242
Population As Of:2019
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code:+48 58
Registration Plate:GD

Chełm (pronounced as /pl/; German: Stolzenberg)[2] is an administrative district (dzielnica administracyjna) of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. It got its final shape in 2019.

Location

From the north, the quarter is bordered by the districts of Siedlce and Śródmieście, from the east by Orunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce, from the south by Orunia Górna-Gdańsk Południe and Ujeścisko-Łostowice and from the west by Wzgórze Mickiewicza.

The quarters of Chełm are:

Quarters of the larger district Chełm transferred to Orunia Górna-Gdańsk Południe had been:

History

As part of the Kingdom of Poland it was a private church village of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[3]

During the German occupation (World War II), a subcamp of the Stalag XX-B prisoner-of-war camp was operated in the district.[4] On average, the Germans held about 600 Allied POWs in the camp.[4]

In 2010, the fast growing district of Chełm i Gdańsk Południe with a population of about 72,000 has been divided in the districts of Chełm and Ujeścisko-Łostowice. When Chełm reached a population of 51,000, the city council decided on August 30, 2018, for a second division in the smaller district of Chełm and the district Orunia Górna-Gdańsk Południe. The new district was created on March 24, 2019.[5] [6]

Tourism

Tourist attractions:

External links

Notes and References

  1. gdansk.pl: Chełm.
  2. Web site: Gdańskie dzielnice tu mieszkam tu działam . City of Gdańsk. Gdańsk. 650 . PDF. Polish.
  3. Book: Biskup. Marian. Tomczak. Andrzej. 1955. Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w.. pl. Toruń. 91.
  4. Book: Megargee. Geoffrey P.. Overmans. Rüdiger. Vogt. Wolfgang. 2022. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 496. 978-0-253-06089-1.
  5. Decision of the city council No. LVI / 1670/18 (August 30, 2018).
  6. gdansk.pl: Dzielnica Orunia Górna - Gdańsk Południe ma już rok. Urodzinowy festyn. (Polish)