Przodkowo


Przodkowo is a village in Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Przodkowo. It lies approximately north-east of Kartuzy and west of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the historic region of Pomerania.
Przodkowo was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
During the German occupation, Przodkowo was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion. The "death march" of about 11,000 prisoners evacuated by the Germans from the Stutthof concentration camp camp to Lębork passed through Przodkowo at the turn of January and February 1945. Many prisoners died as a result of hunger, exhaustion and executions by the Germans.
There is a Firefighting Museum in Przodkowo.
The village has a population of 1,286.