Choczewo () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Wejherowo County __NOTOC__ Wejherowo County (, ) 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, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ...

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...

, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Choczewo __NOTOC__ Gmina Choczewo () is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Choczewo, which lies approximately northwest of Wejherowo and northwest of the reg ...

. It lies approximately north-west of

Wejherowo Wejherowo (; formerly ) 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 1999; previously, it was a city in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

and north-west of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

. Choczewo lies on a disused railway line from

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

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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 Dzięcielski 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 (western), Polan rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern times Pomerania has been split betw ...

. In 2011, Choczewo was selected, along with two other sites (Gąski and

Żarnowiec Żarnowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies close to Żarnowieckie Lake, approximately west of Krokowa, north-west of Puck, and north-west ...

), 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 22 December 2021, Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe announced the preferred location for Poland's first commercial nuclear power plant at a site called Lubiatowo-Kopalino, northwest to the village.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"; 22 December 2021

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 center 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 Dzięcielski family, now home to the Choczewo Municipal Education Team File:Choczewo Manor House.JPG, 18th-century manor house of the von Dzięcielski family, now home to the Choczewo Municipal Education Team

References

Villages in Wejherowo County {{Wejherowo-geo-stub