Subkowy

Subkowy
Village
Church of Saint Stanislaus
Subkowy
Coordinates: 54°0′6″N 18°46′10″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Tczew
Gmina	Subkowy
Population
• Total	2,167
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	GTC
National roads

Subkowy [supˈkɔvɨ] (Kashubian: Subkòwë) is a village in Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Subkowy. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south of Tczew and 42 km (26 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

History

Subkowy was a private church village of the Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish Crown.

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several Poles from Subkowy, including teachers, were among the victims of large massacres of Poles carried out by the Germans in the Szpęgawski Forest in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

Transport

The Polish National road 91 runs 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 Industrial Region in southern Poland.