| Ocypel | |
| 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: | Lubichowo |
| Coordinates: | 53.81°N 18.3139°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Elevation M: | 99.3 |
| Population Total: | 585 |
Ocypel is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubichowo, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) south-west of Lubichowo, 230NaN0 south-west of Starogard Gdański, and 660NaN0 south of the regional capital Gdańsk.
The village was mentioned for the first time in 1664. From 1772 it was the administrative headquarters of the Prussian partition in the Prussian province of West Prussia. After the First World War Ocypel found itself again in Poland. During World War II the village was called Reußberg. In 1944, soldiers of the underground shot the deputy chief of the secret German state police Gestapo from Tczew in Ocypel. In the German retaliation (by the order of the then chief of the Gestapo in Gdansk), more than twenty Poles were shot publicly (residents of Ocypel and surrounding areas, as well as members of the AK (Armia Krajowa = Home Army) intelligence network from Pomerania, brought from the Stutthof concentration camp). During the German occupation in 1944 in the forests surrounding the Ocypel there was a clash of Pomeranian M4 troops with German troops. After World War II, the forest areas of the Tucholskie Forests around the Ocypla became the operational area of the anti-communist guerillas.
For further details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
In Ocypel, especially on the shores of Large Ocypel Lake, there are many resorts. The biggest one is the Scouts Summer Camp, ZHP Warsaw Praga-Południe.