Dziekanka | |
Settlement Type: | District of Gniezno |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Greater Poland |
Subdivision Type2: | County/City |
Subdivision Name2: | Gniezno |
Coordinates: | 52.5297°N 17.5783°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | PGN |
Dziekanka is a district of Gniezno, Poland,[1] located in the western part of the city.
The Museum of the Polish State Origins and the Dziekanka Regional Psychiatric Hospital are located in Dziekanka.
In 1894, a psychiatric hospital was established in Dziekanka.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), between 7 December 1939 and 12 January 1940, the SS-Sonderkommandos gassed some 1,200 patients of the local psychiatric hospital (see Aktion T4).[2]