| Lipusz | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kościerzyna |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Lipusz |
| Coordinates: | 54.0975°N 17.7844°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Elevation M: | 150 |
| Population Total: | 2403 |
| Website: | http://www.lipusz.eu |
Lipusz is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Lipusz.[1] It lies approximately 14km (09miles) west of Kościerzyna and 630NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.
Lipusz 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), in 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 20 Poles from Lipusz, including railwaymen, farmers, millers, a secretary of the local forestry, a teacher and a postman, in the nearby forest (see Intelligenzaktion).[3] Families of the victims were expelled.[4] Some Poles from Lipusz were also murdered in the forest near Skarszewy,[5] and further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1943 and 1944.[6] The expellees were either deported to forced labour or to the General Government.[6]