Piece | |
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: | Kaliska |
Coordinates: | 53.8872°N 18.2139°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Elevation Min M: | 110 |
Elevation Max M: | 149 |
Population Total: | 902 |
Registration Plate: | GST |
Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
Piece is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kaliska, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship,[1] in northern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 2km (01miles) south of Kaliska, 230NaN0 south-west of Starogard Gdański, and 600NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located in the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Piece was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] The local priest was murdered by the Germans in October 1939, during the large massacres of Poles carried out in the Forest of Szpęgawsk (see: Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland).[4]