Sternowo

Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

53°41′55″N 17°42′49″E / 53.69861°N 17.71361°E / 53.69861; 17.71361Country

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Sternowo [stɛrˈnɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnice, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) east of Chojnice and 96 km (60 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

History

Sternowo was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Żabiński and Żukowski families, administratively located in the Człuchów County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940 and 1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported either to the General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland or to forced labour in Germany.^[3] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

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. 87.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 72, 121. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.