Królewo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Stare Pole, within
Malbork County
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Malbork County ( pl, powiat malborski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ref ...
,
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
The ...
, in northern Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Stare Pole
Stare Pole (; german: Altfelde)https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19461420262/O/M19460262.pdf is a village in Malbork County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called ...
, east of
Malbork
Malbork; ;
* la, Mariaeburgum, ''Mariae castrum'', ''Marianopolis'', ''Civitas Beatae Virginis''
* Kashubian: ''Malbórg''
* Old Prussian: ''Algemin'' is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of Malbork County and has a ...
, and south-east of the regional capital
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
.
History
The village was part of Poland until 1772, when it was annexed by
Prussia in the
First Partition of Poland, from 1871 to 1945 it was part of Germany. During
World War II, the Germans established and operated a
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
subcamp of the German military prison in
Grudziądz in
German-occupied Poland.
[Jan Daniluk, ''Wykorzystanie siły roboczej jeńców wojennych w XX Okręgu Wojskowym w latach II wojny światowej (zarys problemu)'', "Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny" Tom 35, Opole, 2012, p. 28 (in Polish)] After Germany's defeat in the war in 1945 the village was restored to Poland.
References
Villages in Malbork County
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