Rusocin, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

54°13′42″N 18°37′35″E / 54.22833°N 18.62639°E / 54.22833; 18.62639Country

PolandVoivodeshipPomeranianCountyGdańskGminaPruszcz GdańskiPopulation

• Total980Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Vehicle registrationGDAHighways

Websitehttp://www.rusocin.80.pl

Rusocin [ruˈsɔt͡ɕin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pruszcz Gdański, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Pruszcz Gdański and 16 km (10 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Rusocin was a private village owned by various Polish nobles, incl. the Dąbrowski and Wojanowski families, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.^[2] It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

During World War II, from September 1944 to February 1945, the village was the location of a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp, in which Nazi Germans imprisoned around 300 Jewish women as forced labour.^[3]

Transport

The village is located close to the start/end point of the A1 and S6 highways.

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 117.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Gliński, Mirosław. "Podobozy i większe komanda zewnętrzne obozu Stutthof (1939–1945)". Stutthof. Zeszyty Muzeum (in Polish). 3: 177. ISSN 0137-5377.