Morzeszczyn [mɔˈʐɛʂt͡ʂɨn] (German: Leutmannsdorf) is a village in Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Morzeszczyn.[1] It lies approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) south of Tczew and 59 km (37 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

Morzeszczyn
Village
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Coordinates: 53°50′23″N 18°41′27″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Tczew
Gmina	Morzeszczyn
Population	684
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	GTC
Voivodeship roads

The village has a population of 684.

History

Morzeszczyn was a private church village of the monastery in Pelplin, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish Crown.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Morzeszczyn was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion,[3] and local Polish teachers were also murdered in the Szpęgawski Forest.[4]

Transport

The Polish Voivodeship roads 220, 234 and 644 run through the village, and there is a railway station, located on the important Polish railway line No. 131, which is part of the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, which connects the port city of Gdynia in northern Poland with the Upper Silesian metropolitan area in southern Poland.

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