Bobowo
Bobowo is a village in Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Bobowo. It lies approximately south of Starogard Gdański and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
The village has a population of 1,271.
The landmark of Bobowo is the Saint Adalbert church.History
Bobowo was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Despite the partitions, the village remained a local Polish center in the 19th century, there were Polish organizations in Bobowo, including a bank founded in 1866. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the village was restored to Poland.
During the German occupation of Poland, in October 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of seven Poles in the village. Teachers from Bobowo were among Polish teachers murdered by the Germans on October 20, 1939 in the Szpęgawski Forest as part of the Intelligenzaktion. Dozens of Polish families were expelled to the General Government, deported for forced labour to Germany or assigned as forced laborers to new German colonists.
