Linowiec | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Starogard |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Starogard Gdański |
Coordinates: | 54.0172°N 18.4969°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 363 |
Linowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) north-west of Starogard Gdański and 400NaN0 south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
Linowiec was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the Germans murdered local Polish teachers in the Szpęgawski Forest (see Intelligenzaktion).[3]