Świekatowo


Świekatowo is a village in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Świekatowo. It lies approximately west of Świecie and north of Bydgoszcz.
The village has a population of 1,700.

Massacre during Second World War

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German forces on 3 September murdered 26 Poles. The massacre happened as Poles were attending Church mass from which they were dragged out by German soldiers and shot.