Więckowy | |
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: | Skarszewy |
Coordinates: | 54.06°N 18.3872°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Population Total: | 600 |
Registration Plate: | GST |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Więckowy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) west of Skarszewy, 150NaN0 north-west of Starogard Gdański, and 380NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
Human settlement dates back to prehistoric times and there is a cemetery from the Iron Age near the village, now an archaeological site.[2]
Więckowy was a private church village within the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, owned by the monastery in Pelplin.[3]
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the Germans murdered over 100 Poles in the forest between Skarszewy and Więckowy in October and November 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4]
There is a public primary school in Więckowy.[2]