Sulęczyno | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kartuzy |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Sulęczyno |
Coordinates: | 54.2333°N 63°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 1500 |
Registration Plate: | GKA |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Sulęczyno is a village in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sulęczyno.[1] It lies approximately 31km (19miles) west of Kartuzy and 590NaN0 west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
It is located on the shores of the Węgorzyno, Guścierz Duży and Guścierz Mały lakes, within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.
Sulęczyno was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Mirachowo County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), local priest Tadeusz Zapałowski was murdered during a massacre of Polish priests from the region perpetrated by the Einsatzkommando 16 in November 1939 in the forest near Kartuzy (see: Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland).[3]