The Piaśnica is a river in northern
Poland
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, in
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 ...
near
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
, in
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...
. It begins inside the
Puszcza Darżlubska Wilderness, located in the northernmost part of the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie. Darżlubie Forest (also referred to in
Polish as ''Lasy Piaśnickie'') contains two
nature reserves
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(
Polish protected areas). On the south–side it borders the
Tricity Landscape Park from which, it is separated by the
Reda river. The wilderness, is also the source of river Gizdepka. The name of Piaśnica comes from the nearby villages of
Piaśnica Mała and
Piaśnica Wielka.
[ ]
The Piaśnica wilderness, where the river begins, is a place of Polish and Jewish
martyrology
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; the second largest site of mass killings of Polish civilians in
Pomerania
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(after
Stutthof) during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
.
[ see also]
"Polish Prime Minister at the anniversary celebrations in Piaśnica"
, (paragraph 2, line 2) by Google Translate
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The
Mass murders in Piaśnica, of about 12,000–16,000 hostages (mostly intelligentsia), were committed by the Nazis between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 near the town of
Wielka Piaśnica.
The Piaśnica flows through
Lake Żarnowiec and terminates into the
Baltic Sea
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near
Żarnowiec.
Notes and references
Rzeka Piaśnica, at www.polwysep.pl
Kayaking on Piaśnica
Scuba-diving at Piaśnica
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Rivers of Poland
Rivers of Pomeranian Voivodeship
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Holocaust locations in Poland