Osie | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Świecie |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Osie |
Coordinates: | 53.5983°N 18.3436°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 2520 |
Registration Plate: | CSW |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Osie is a village in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Osie. It lies approximately 22km (14miles) north of Świecie, 590NaN0 north-east of Bydgoszcz, and 660NaN0 north of Toruń.
The Wda Landscape Park is located in Osie.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Osie was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion,[2] and inhabitants of Osie were also among the victims of a massacre of Poles committed by the German Selbstschutz in nearby Jastrzębie in January 1940.[3] In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to a transit camp in Tczew, and then deported to the Warsaw District of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while their farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]