Wielka Piaśnica
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | puck | ||
| Gmina : | puck | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 41 ′ N , 18 ° 12 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 65 (Dec. 31, 2007) | ||
| Postal code : | 84-100 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 58 | ||
| License plate : | GPUW | ||
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Wielka Piaśnica ( German : Groß Piasnitz , Kashubian Wiôlgô Piôsznica ) is a village in the rural municipality of Puck ( Putzig ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . The Schulzenamt is located in Domatówko ( Klein Dommatau ).
Geographical location
The village is located in the historical region of West Prussia , about 13 kilometers northwest of the city of Wejherowo ( Neustadt in West Prussia ). The river Piaśnica ( Piasnitz ) flows through the village.
history
In 1785, the Groß and Klein Plaßnitz residential area is referred to as an emphyteutic village with four fireplaces (households). Before 1919, Groß Piasnitz belonged to the Putzig district in the West Prussia province of the German Empire .
After the end of the First World War , the district area with Groß Piasnitz had to be ceded to Poland due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty for the purpose of establishing the Polish Corridor , with effect from January 20, 1920 and without a referendum. As a result of the attack on Poland in 1939, the captured area of the Polish Corridor was annexed by the German Reich in violation of international law ; it was assigned to the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , to which it belonged until 1945.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the district in the spring of 1945 .
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1818 | 24 | |
| 1864 | 49 | |
| 1871 | 41 | in four residential buildings |
Massacre in the forest of Groß Piasnitz
From September to December 1939, Germans murdered around 10,000 to 13,000 people in the nearby forest. The Piaśnica massacre is considered to be the first systematically carried out murder action by the National Socialists in occupied Europe.
During the Second World War , the Volksdeutsche Selbstschutz , a special SS unit under the leadership of SS Oberführer Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben , killed between 10,000 and 13,000 people in the forest near the village of Piaśnica, including Polish and Kashubian intellectuals from Pomerania , but also interned German anti-fascists, Poles, Czechs and stateless Jews. In addition, around 1,200 mentally ill people from Pomeranian institutions were killed.
The mass executions began in September / October 1939 and lasted until April 1940. An exhumation of mass graves was carried out after the Second World War 1946th Of the known number of 35 mass graves, 30 were found and of these 26 were exhumed. Only 305 bodies were found in two mass graves, the rest of the bodies were burned by the National Socialists in August or September 1944 on behalf of concealment. Prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp were used to cover up the mass murders and later killed.
literature
- Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872 ( e-copy ).
- Thomas Grasberger: The Dead Forest. The Piaśnica massacre in September 1939 was the first systematic murder campaign by the National Socialists in occupied Europe . In: Die Zeit from January 20, 2011, p. 18.
Web links
- Big and Small Dommatau (Putzig District, West Prussia) (Uwe Kerntopf, 1998 ff.).
Footnotes
- ↑ Website of the community of Puck, Gmina w liczbach ( Memento of the original of December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2008
- ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I, Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the West Prussian Cammer Department , p. 167.
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Volume 4, Halle 1823, p. 35, No. 262.
- ^ Prussian Ministry of Finance: The results of the property and building tax assessment in the administrative district of Danzig . Berlin 1867, 7th district Neustadt , p. 18, no. 128 .
- ^ Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872, p. 218, no.61 .
- ↑ Thomas Grasberger: Der Totenwald in: Die Zeit , January 20, 2011, accessed September 24, 2015
