Chałupy (, ) is a

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and a Polish

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with conditions favorable for

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and

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, in

Gmina Władysławowo __NOTOC__ Gmina Władysławowo is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the city of Władysławowo. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2013 its total population ...

. It is situated between

Władysławowo Władysławowo (Kashubian language, Kashubian/Pomeranian language, Pomeranian: ''Wiôlgô Wies'' �vʲɞlɡɞ ˈvʲɛs ) is a city on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in Kashubia in the Pomerelia region, northern Poland, with 9,363 inhabitant ...

and Kuźnica on the

Hel Peninsula Hel Peninsula (; ; ; or ''Putziger Nehrung'') is a sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea. It is located in Puck County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Name The name of the peninsula ...

on the southern

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Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County (, ) 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 history of Poland, since the times of th ...

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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 Battle of Hel (, literally "the Defense of Hel") was a World War II engagement fought from 1 September to 2 October 1939 on the Hel Peninsula, of the Baltic Sea coast, between invading German forces and defending Polish units during the Ge ...

. 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. Near the village there is also a nudist beach, commemorated by Zbigniew Wodecki in the song ''Chałupy welcome to.''

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