Zdroje (german: Finkenwalde) is a municipal neighborhood of the city of

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

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situated on the right bank of the river

East Oder East Oder ( pl, Odra Wschodnia) is the eastern arm of the lower Oder near Szczecin, Poland. It flows through Skośnica canal into West Oder and through Regalica into Dąbie Lake in the delta of the Oder river. The river flows through the Lowe ...

, south-east of the Szczecin Old Town, and south-west of

Dąbie, Szczecin Dąbie (formerly , ''Altdamm'', or ''Stettin-Altdamm'') is a former town and current municipal neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin in Poland, situated on the Płonia river, on the south coast of Dąbie Lake, on the right bank of Oder river ...

. Within

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, the suburb was the site of

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have ...

's illegal (after 1937) Theological Seminary of the

Confessing Church The Confessing Church (german: link=no, Bekennende Kirche, ) was a movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German E ...

between 1935–37, and during

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, the Germans operated a

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subcamp of the prison in

Goleniów Goleniów ( csb, Gòłonóg; german: Gollnow) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 22,844 inhabitants (2011). It is the capital of Goleniów County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Szczecin Voivodeshi ...

in the district.

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