Choczewo (; csb, Chòczewò; formerly german: Chottschow, (1938–45): ''Gotendorf'') is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Wejherowo County __NOTOC__ Wejherowo County ( csb, Wejrowsczi kréz, pl, powiat wejherowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 19 ...

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province ( Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; (Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The ...

, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Choczewo __NOTOC__ Gmina Choczewo ( csb, Chòczewò, german: Chottschow) is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Choczewo, which lies approximately north-west ...

. It lies approximately north-west of

Wejherowo Wejherowo ( csb, Wejrowò; german: Neustadt in Westpreußen, formerly Weyhersfrey) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 19 ...

and north-west of the regional capital

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 Benen ...

. Choczewo lies on the disused

to Garczegorze railway line (PKP rail line 230), and had a

station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

on it on the north side of the village. It is home to the Choczewo Municipal Education Team, which is housed in the 18th-century manor house of the von Dzieciskich family in the southern part of the village. 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 ...

''. The village has a population of 1,310. In 2011, Choczewo was selected, along with two other sites (Gąski and Żarnowiec), to host the first Polish nuclear power plant, scheduled to be built 9 years later. In 2014, a government study postponed the opening of this first Polish plant to 2024. Then, in early 2015, the Minister of Finance postponed commissioning to 2027.2021/04/22/35-years-after-chernobyl-the-Polish-puzzle Poland: 35 years after Chernobyl, the nuclear puzzle
– April 22, 2021 by Beata Cymerman, HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG On December 22, 2021, Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe announced the preferred location for Poland's first commercial nuclear power plant at a site called Lubiatowo-Kopalino near the village to the northwest.https://ppej.pl/en/news/preferred-site-of-the-first-polish-nuclear-power-plant-indicated-by-investor "Preferred site of the first Polish nuclear power plant indicated by investor"; December 22, 2021

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Images of Choczewo

File:Choczewo 02, route 213, outside Melan supermarket, facing north.JPG, Route 213, the main street of Choczewo, facing north File:Choczewo 01, route 213, outside Melan supermarket, facing south.JPG, Route 213, the main street of Choczewo, facing south File:Choczewo War Memorial.JPG, War memorial beside the 213 road in the centre of Choczewo. The inscription reads: "To those who fell in the battles for the liberation of the Choczewo region" File:Choczewo - Church 01.jpg, Church File:Choczewo - Manor house 04.jpg, 18th-century manor house of the von Dzieciskich family, now home to the Choczewo Municipal Education Team File:Choczewo Manor House.JPG, 18th-century manor house of the von Dzieciskich family, now home to the Choczewo Municipal Education Team
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