Tuchlino is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy 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 south-west of Sierakowice, west of Kartuzy, and 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 on the eastern shore of the Tuchlińskie Lake, within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Tuchlino was a private village of the Tuchliński noble family of

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, administratively located in the Mirachowo County in the

of the Kingdom of Poland. During the German occupation of Poland ( World War II), in 1939, some

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from Tuchlino were among the victims of a massacre committed by the Germans in nearby Kaliska as part of the '' Intelligenzaktion''. In 1942, the German police carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the '' Lebensraum'' policy. Expelled Poles were deported to the

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, and eventually enslaved as

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and sent either to Germany or to German colonists in the region.

Notable residents

* Johannes Nepomuk von der Marwitz (1795–1886), Bishop

References

Populated lakeshore places in Poland Villages in Kartuzy County {{Kartuzy-geo-stub