| Szpęgawsk | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Starogard |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Starogard Gdański |
| Coordinates: | 54.0047°N 18.6069°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Population Total: | 620 |
Szpęgawsk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) north-east of Starogard Gdański and 410NaN0 south of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
During the Nazi occupation, 5,000-7,000 Polish civilians were executed between September 1939 and January 1941 in the Forest of Szpęgawsk (Las Szpęgawski), most of them intellectuals and Jews from Pomerania, and 2000 psychiatric patients from the Kocborowo hospital near Starogard Gdariski.[2] [3]