Tuchlino 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 ...

in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Sierakowice, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Sierakowice, west of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located on the eastern shore of the Tuchlińskie Lake, within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Tuchlino was a private village of the Tuchliński Szlachta, noble family of Kownia coat of arms, administratively located in the Mirachowo County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772), Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. During the Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, some Polish people, Poles from Tuchlino were among the victims of a massacre committed by the Germans in nearby Kaliska, Kartuzy County, Kaliska as part of the ''Intelligenzaktion''. In 1942, the German police carried out Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to Germans, German colonists as part of the ''Lebensraum'' policy. Expelled Poles were deported to the Potulice concentration camp, and eventually enslaved as Forced labour under German rule during World War II, forced labour and sent either to Germany or to German colonists in the region.

Notable residents

*Johannes Nepomuk von der Marwitz (1795–1886), Bishop

References

Populated lakeshore places in Poland Villages in Kartuzy County {{Kartuzy-geo-stub