Będargowo (Szemud)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Wejherowo | ||
| Gmina : | Szemud | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 26 ' N , 18 ° 8' E | ||
| Residents : | 423 (2011) | ||
Będargowo ( German Bendargau , Kashubian Bãdargòwò ) is a Kashubian village with 423 inhabitants (2011) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szemud (rural community Schönwalde) in the powiat Wejherowski (Neustadt district in West Prussia).
The village is mentioned for the first time in documents from 1284. There are remains of a castle near the village. In the course of the first partition of Poland in 1772, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia . Until 1919 the village was called Bendargau, in that year it came to the newly founded Second Polish Republic in accordance with the Versailles Peace Treaty, along with the Polish Corridor .
In 1942 the name Bendargau, which the place had received again after the invasion of Poland and the annexation by the German Reich, was classified by the National Socialists as "too Kashubian" and replaced by Bandergau. From 1975 to 1998 the place was administratively part of the Gdansk Voivodeship .
Born in Bendargau
- Emil von Zelewski (1854–1891), Prussian officer of Kashubian descent
- Aleksander Arendt (1912–2002), Kashubian activist