Piastowo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Milejewo
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Gmina Milejewo is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Elbląg County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Milejewo, which lies approximately north-east of Elbląg and north-west of the reg ...
, within
Elbląg County,
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Milejewo
Milejewo is a village in Elbląg County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Milejewo. It lies approximately north-east of Elbląg and north-west of the regional ...
, north-east of
Elbląg
Elbląg (; german: Elbing, Old Prussian: ''Elbings'') is a city in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, located in the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 117,390 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It is the capital of Elbląg County.
...
, and north-west of the regional capital
Olsztyn.
History
The village was part of the
Kingdom of Poland until the
First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by
Prussia. In 1871 it became part of Germany, within which it was administratively part of the province of
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
. During
World War II, in 1944–1945, it was the location of a subcamp of the
Stutthof concentration camp, in which the German
Organisation Todt imprisoned over 5,000 women as
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 ...
.
Following Germany's defeat in World War II, in 1945, the village was reintegrated with Poland.
References
Piastowo
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