Mierzeszyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trąbki Wielkie, within Gdańsk County,

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 north-west of

Trąbki Wielkie Trąbki Wielkie (german: Groß Trampken; csb, Trąbczi Wiôldżé) is a village in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Trąbki Wielkie. It lies approximat ...

, south-west of Pruszcz Gdański, and south-west 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 ...

. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania. Mierzeszyn was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the

. In the past it was also called ''Miereszyn'' (1686), ''Miereszczyn'' (1717), and ''Mierzyszyn''. During the World War II, on November 17, 1939, the Germans murdered the local Polish priest in the nearby village of

Nowy Wiec Nowy Wiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Skarszewy, north-west of Starogard Gdański, and south-west of th ...

(see '' Intelligenzaktion'').Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 155 (in Polish) There are two historic churches in the village: the Saint Bartholomew church and the Sacred Heart church.

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