Rokitki, Tczew County
Rokitki | |
|---|---|
Village | |
Rokitki | |
| Coordinates: 54°4′43″N 18°44′15″E / 54.07861°N 18.73750°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Tczew |
| Gmina | Tczew |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,900 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GTC |
Rokitki [rɔˈkitki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tczew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
Etymology
The name of the village comes from a willow species, known in Polish as wierzba rokita.
History
Rokitki was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[2] The Battle of Tczew during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) was fought nearby in August 1627.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, local Polish activist Paweł Miller was murdered by the Germans in the Szpęgawski Forest along with several Poles from other villages (see Intelligenzaktion),[3] and in 1940 several Polish families were expelled and deported to forced labour, while their farms were handed over to Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]
References
- ^ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
- ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 113.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 149–150.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.