Czarże is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska
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Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Dąbrowa Chełmińska, which lies approximately east of B ...
, within
Bydgoszcz County,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
It lies north of
Dąbrowa Chełmińska
Dąbrowa Chełmińska is a village in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska. It lies east of Bydgoszcz and north-we ...
, north-east of
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
, and north-west of
Toruń. It is located in the
Chełmno Land in the historic region of
Pomerania.
History
The oldest known mention of the village comes from a document of Duke
Konrad I of Masovia from 1222.
During the
German occupation
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(
World War II), in 1939, local Polish teachers were murdered by the Germans in a massacre of
Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...
committed in nearby
Klamry
Klamry (german: Klammer) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmno, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Chełmno, north of Toruń, and north-east o ...
as part of the ''
Intelligenzaktion''. In October 1940, the occupiers also carried out
expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to
German
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**Germania (historical use)
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**Ger ...
colonists as part of the ''
Lebensraum'' policy.
Notable people
*
Piotr Konieczka (1901–1939), corporal of the Polish Army, considered the first victim of World War II; born in Czarże
References
Villages in Bydgoszcz County
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