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German Exonyms (Pomorze)
{{Expand list, date=August 2008 This is a list of German language place names in Poland, now exonyms for towns and villages in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. * Bałdowo Baldau * Bargędzino Bergensin * Bobowo Bobau; Dietersfelde (1939-1942) * Borzytuchom Borntuchen *Brusy Bruß * Bytów Bütow *Cedry Wielkie Groß Zünder *Cewice Zewitz * Chojnice Konitz *Choczewo Chottschow, Gotendorf (1938-1945) *Czarna Dąbrówka Schwarze Damerkow *Czarna Woda Schwarzwasser *Czarne Hammerstein * Czersk Czersk; Heiderode (1942-1945) * Człuchów Schlochau *Damnica Hebrondamnitz * Dębnica Kaszubska Rathsdamnitz *Debrzno Preußisch Friedland *Dziemiany Dzimianen *Dzierzgoń Christburg * Gardeja Garnsee *Gdańsk Danzig * Gdynia Gdingen, 1939-1945 Gotenhafen * Główczyce Glowitz * Gniew Mewe * Gniewino Gnewin * Gorzędziej Gerdin * Grabowska Huta Grabaushütte * Hel Hela *Jastarnia Heisternest * Kaliska Dreidorf *Karsin Karschin, Karßin (1939-1945) *Kartuzy Karthaus *Kępice Hammermühle * Knybawa Kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France ( Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland ( Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary ( Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Człuchów
Człuchów (, ''Człochòwo'', or ''Człëchòwò''; formerly ) is a town in the region of Gdańsk Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with 13,350 inhabitants as of December 2021. Człuchów has been the capital of Człuchów County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998 it was in Słupsk Voivodeship. Location Człuchów lies in a forested area in the southwest of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, at the intersection of Highway 25 from Koszalin to Bydgoszcz and Highway 22 from Gorzów Wielkopolski to Elbląg. The nearest city is Chojnice, to the east. History By the beginning of the 13th century Człuchów was a Slavic settlement under the overlordship of the Kingdom of Poland located at the intersection of two trade routes. In 1312 the Teutonic Knights purchased the settlement for 250 silver marks from Nicholas of Poniec, a son of the voivod of Kalisz. The Order began constructing a fortress known as Schlochau on a hill east of the settlement; the fortress, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grabowska Huta
Grabowska Huta is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Karczma, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Nowa Karczma, north-east of Kościerzyna, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Pol .... References Grabowska Huta {{Kościerzyna-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorzędziej
Gorzędziej (formerly german: Gerdin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Subkowy, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Subkowy, south-east of Tczew, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 498. History A fortification is known to have existed here at least since some time before 1233, since it is known that it was reinforced 1233-1236 by Duke Sambor II with the help of the Teutonic Order. Sometime later it was captured by his brother, Swietopelk II. In 1282 his son Mestwin II gave the castle to the Bishop of Płock. The bishop founded a town that grew up around the castle. In 1312 the town was bought by the Teutonic Order and was deprived of its town rights. It was later a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The village suffered much damage in the Deluge and was almost completely abandon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gniewino
Gniewino (Kashubian: ''Gniéwino''; formerly german: Gnewin) is a village in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gniewino. It lies approximately north-west of Wejherowo and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. A little to the east of Gniewino lies the Kashubian Eye Complex, a tourism and recreation complex centred on a 44 metre tall viewing tower. For details of the history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania''. The village has a population of 1,710. There is a large wind farm A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind tur .... Gallery File:Gniewino - Church.jpg, Church File:POL Gniewino 10.jpg, Gniewino File:Gniewino - Road 01.jpg, Road File:Gniewino - Square 01.jpg, Sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gniew
Gniew (pronounced ; csb, Gméw, or ''Gniéw''; formerly german: Mewe) is a historic town situated on the left bank of the Vistula River, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It has 6,870 inhabitants (2016). It is one of the oldest towns in Polish Pomerania, and is renowned for its medieval brick gothic Castle, which has become the region's most recognizable monument. History The first recorded mentions of Gniew appear in written documents of the first half of the 13th century, which refer to the region as ''Terra Gymeu'' (Gmewan, Gimen, Gymen) in 1229, ''terra Mewe'' in 1250, and terra Gemewe in 1283, terra Mewa. The name ''Gniew'' is of native, Polish origin. The name Wansca (''Wońsk'') was also used. The German name of ''Mewe'' is a Germanized form of the Polish name ''Gmewe''. The town's coat of arms is an example of canting, as it depicts a seagull (German: ''Möwe''), which alludes to the town's Germanized name. Beginning in the 10th century, the regio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Główczyce, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Główczyce (; formerly german: Glowitz) is a village in Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Główczyce. It lies approximately north-east of Słupsk and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The village has a population of 2,048. History The prefix in the name of Główczyce indicates the origin of the name from the proper name of Główka (meaning head in polish). The village of Główczyce was once an important cultural center of Kashubia. Główczyce was already mentioned in 1252. In 1475, Nikolaus von Puttkamer becomes the owner of the village and nearby lands, from the second half of the 15th century until the end of 1945, the property of Główczyce was in the hands of the von Puttkamer (Podkomorzy in polish, von Puttkamer were Germanized Pomeranian slavs) noble family along with the widely known noble manor in the middle of the village. Główczyce remained with the Putt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk. Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (''Trójmiasto'') with around 1,000,000 inhabitants. Historically and culturally part of Kashubia and Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia for centuries remained a small fishing village. By the 20th-century it attracted visitors as a seaside resort town. In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a modernist cityscape. It became a major seaport city of Poland. In 1970, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarity movement in nearby Gdańsk. The port of Gdynia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benennungen der bekanntesten Städte etc., Meere, Seen, Berge und Flüsse in allen Theilen der Erde nebst einem deutsch-lateinischen Register derselben''. T. Ein Supplement zu jedem lateinischen und geographischen Wörterbuche. Dresden: G. Schönfeld’s Buchhandlung (C. A. Werner), 1861, p. 71, 237.); Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. * , )Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benennungen der bekanntesten Städte etc., Meere, Seen, Berge und Flüsse in allen Theilen der Erde nebst einem deutsch-lateinischen Register derselben''. T. Ein Supplement zu jedem lateinischen und geographischen Wörterbuche. Dresden: G. Schönf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardeja
Gardeja (formerly ) is a village in Kwidzyn County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gardeja. It had been a town during the time span 1334–1945. Geographical location Gardeja lies approximately south of Kwidzyn and south of the regional capital of Gdańsk. The village is located between two little lakes on the road from Kwidzyn to Grudziądz. History Gardeja is the location of an old medieval pre-Christian stronghold. A Cistercian monastery was founded there in the late 13th century. A little while later, on October 4, 1334, the town was founded in the immediate vicinity of the village by Bertold von Riesenburg, Bishop of Pomesania; it was called ''Garzanum'' in the document of foundation.Jacobson: ''Beitrag zur Geschichte der Preußischen Klöster – Über die Klöster des Cistercienserordens'', in: ''Neues allgemeines Archiv für die Geschichtskunde des preußischen Staates'' (Leopold vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzierzgoń
Dzierzgoń (formerly also: ''Kiszpork''; german: Christburg) is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. It is located in Sztum County east of Malbork and south of Elbląg on the river Dzierzgoń. Dzierzgoń has a population of 5,242, while the city and its environs have a combined population of about 10,000. History The town was originally a settlement of Old Prussian tribe of Pomesanians. Settlement dates back to the Early Middle Ages. The oldest name is ''Sirgune'', from which the historic Polish name ''Dzierzgoń'' comes from. In 1247, a castle known as ''Neu Christburg'' (German for "New Castle of Christ") was founded overlooking the Dzierzgoń river, a few kilometers away from an older fortress known as ''Alt Christburg'' (Stary Dzierzgoń) by Teutonic Knights brought to Poland by Konrad I of Masovia. In 1249 a peace treaty was signed at the new castle between the victorious Teutonic Order and defeated local Old Prussians, in presence of papal legate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dziemiany
Dziemiany ( csb, Dzemiónë; formerly german: Dzimianen, (1942-5): ''Sophienwalde'') is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dziemiany. It lies approximately south-west of Kościerzyna and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It was the location of the Nazi concentration camp ''Dzimianen'' - ''Sophienwalde'', a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof. Here the '' SS-Truppenübungsplatz Westpreußen'' was located during the occupation of Poland in World War II. The village has a population of 1571. History Dziemiany was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, ''Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w.'', Toruń, 1955, p. 110-111 (in Polish) World War II Dziemiany was overrun on the second day of the Nazi German invasion of Poland of September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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