Wałdowo | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Świecie |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Pruszcz |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 53.3333°N 32°W |
Registration Plate: | CSW |
Wałdowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 3km (02miles) east of Pruszcz, 170NaN0 south-west of Świecie, 290NaN0 north-east of Bydgoszcz, and 420NaN0 north-west of Toruń.
Wałdowo was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Wałdowski family, administratively located in the Świecie County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In February 1941, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported to a transit camp in Tczew, while their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]