Luzino ( csb, Lëzëno; formerly german: Lusin, (1942-3): ''Freienau'', (1943-5): ''Lintzau'') is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

Wejherowo County __NOTOC__ Wejherowo County ( csb, Wejrowsczi kréz, pl, powiat wejherowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1 ...

, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern

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. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Luzino __NOTOC__ Gmina Luzino ( csb, Gmina Lëzëno) is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Luzino, which lies approximately south-west of Wejherowo and nor ...

. It lies approximately south-west of

Wejherowo Wejherowo ( csb, Wejrowò; german: Neustadt in Westpreußen, formerly Weyhersfrey) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 19 ...

and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located in the ethnocultural region of

Kashubia pl, Kaszuby , native_name_lang = csb, de, csb , settlement_type = Historical region , anthem = Zemia Rodnô , image_map = Kashubians in Poland.png , image_flag ...

in the historic region of

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

. The village has a population of 7,560.

History

Luzino was a private church village of the monastery in

Żukowo Żukowo ( csb, Żukòwò, german: Zuckau, la, Sucovia) is a town in the Kartuzy County, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of northern Poland, in the geographical region of Kashubia, with 6,236 inhabitants (2005). It is located along the Radunia ri ...

, administratively located in the Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the

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. It was annexed by

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

in the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Following

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, Poland regained independence and control of the village. During the

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(

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), the occupiers carried out executions of several

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in the village, as part of the ''

Intelligenzaktion The ''Intelligenzaktion'' (), or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders which was committed against the Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) early in the ...

''. The local Polish school principal was murdered in November 1939 during the massacres in Piaśnica. In 1940, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, who were transported to a temporary transit camp in

Kartuzy Kartuzy () ( Kashubian ''Kartuzë'', ''Kartëzë'', or ''Kartuzé''; formerly german: Karthaus) is a town in northern Poland, located in the historic Eastern Pomerania ( Pomerelia) region. It is the capital of Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivode ...

and then deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to

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colonists as part of the ''

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'' policy. In 1942, the Germans renamed the village to ''Freienau'', and in 1943 to ''Lintzau''. The German occupation ended in 1945, and the historic name was restored.

References

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