Prusewo | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Szęść Dębów ("Six Oaks") Manor House in Prusewo | |
  Prusewo | |
| Coordinates: 54°46′23″N 17°59′1″E / 54.77306°N 17.98361°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Puck |
| Gmina | Krokowa |
| Population | 305 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GPU |
Prusewo [pruˈsɛvɔ] (German: Prüssau)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) west of Krokowa, 28 km (17 mi) west of Puck, and 62 km (39 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.
Prusewo was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[3]
During World War II the Germans operated a labor camp for prisoners of war from the Stalag II-B prisoner-of-war camp in the village.[4]
- ^ Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße by M. Kaemmerer
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 101.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Les Kommandos". Stalag IIB Hammerstein, Czarne en Pologne (in French). Retrieved 8 May 2020.