Chrystkowo is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Åšwiecie
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Gmina Świecie is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Świecie, which lies approximately north of Toruń and north-east of ...
, within
Åšwiecie County
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Świecie County ( pl, powiat świecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...
,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It lies approximately south-west of
Świecie, north-east of Bydgoszcz, and north-west of Toruń.
Chrystkowo was established in the 17th century by a
Mennonite community. The Mennonites in this period were settling in the lower
Vistula valley and
Żuławy region escaping persecution in Western Europe. There is a well-preserved wooden Mennonite house from 1770 in the village.
Notable residents
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Paul Boldt
Paul Boldt (1885, Christfelde, West Prussia - 1921, Freiburg im Breisgau) was one of the poets of German Expressionism.
Boldt was born in the town of Christfelde an der Weichsel in the countryside of West Prussia, an area which is now a part of ...
(1885-1921), German poet
References
Villages in Åšwiecie County
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