The Piaśnica is a river in northern

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, in

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near Gdańsk, in Pomeranian Voivodeship. It begins inside the

Puszcza Darżlubska ''Puszcza Darżlubska'' () or ''Lasy Piaśnickie'' ( en, Darżlubska Wilderness or Darżlubie / Piaśnica Forest), located in the northernmost part of Poland, is a Polish forests complex on the Baltic Sea, within the geographical region of ''Po ...

Wilderness, located in the northernmost part of the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie. Darżlubie Forest (also referred to in

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as ''Lasy Piaśnickie'') contains two

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( Polish protected areas). On the south–side it borders the

Tricity Landscape Park Tricity Landscape Park (''Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy'') is a protected area in northern Poland ( Polish Landscape Park), established in 1979, and covering the area of . The Park lies within the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Wejherowo County (Gmi ...

from which, it is separated by the Reda river. The wilderness, is also the source of river Gizdepka. The name of Piaśnica comes from the nearby villages of Piaśnica Mała and

Piaśnica Wielka The Piaśnica is a river in northern Poland, in Puck County near Gdańsk, in Pomeranian Voivodeship. It begins inside the Puszcza Darżlubska Wilderness, located in the northernmost part of the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie. Darżlu ...

. The Piaśnica wilderness, where the river begins, is a place of Polish and Jewish

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; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

(after

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) during

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. see also
"Polish Prime Minister at the anniversary celebrations in Piaśnica"
(paragraph 2, line 2) by

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The Mass murders in Piaśnica, of about 12,000–16,000 hostages (mostly intelligentsia), were committed by the Nazis between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 near the town of

Wielka Piaśnica Wielka Piaśnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Puck and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. World War II After ...

. The Piaśnica flows through

Lake Żarnowiec Lake Żarnowiec is located in the Pomorze Voivodeship. It's 7.6 km long, 2.6 km wide and has a depth of 16 m. The river Piaśnica cuts through it. The Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant was supposed to be built next to it. It now serves as ...

and terminates into the

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near Żarnowiec.

Notes and references

Rzeka Piaśnica, at www.polwysep.pl

Kayaking on Piaśnica

Scuba-diving at Piaśnica
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