Chałupy ( csb, Chalëpë or Chałëpë, german: Ceynowa or Ziegenhagen) is a

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and a

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with conditions favorable for

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and

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, in

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. It is situated between

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and Kuźnica on the

Hel Peninsula Hel Peninsula (; pl, Mierzeja Helska, Półwysep Helski; csb, Hélskô Sztremlëzna; german: Halbinsel Hela or ''Putziger Nehrung'') is a sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea. It is loc ...

on the southern

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Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County ( pl, powiat pucki, csb, pùcczi pòwiat) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the hist ...

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, northern Poland. Its population in 2009 was 376. In 1836 the village was the site of one of the last, if not the last,

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s related to accusations of

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, when a widow Krystyna Ceynowa was killed by a mob after being accused of being a witch. In 1939 the village saw some fighting during the battle of Hel. The Germans captured it on 25 September, and around the same time, in its vicinity, Polish military engineers detonated

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warheads, temporarily transforming the Peninsula's far end into an island. Before 1 January 2015, Chałupy was part of the town of

. Toward the last years of communist rule in Poland the locality became famous as the site of a government-legal nudist beach.

Gallery

File:Chalupy plaza.jpg, Beach in Chałupy File:Morze Baltyckie Chalupy.jpg File:Chałupy train station.jpg, Chałupy train station File:WK15 Chałupy (2) Travelarz.jpg File:Chałëpë - kòscół.JPG, Church in Chałupy

References

External links

www.chalupy.pl
- Official website
www.google/maps/lemonpark
- Lemon Park Władysławowo on

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Puck County Neighbourhoods in Poland {{Pomeranian-geo-stub