Kmiecin
Kmiecin | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Church of Saint Hedwig Queen of Poland | |
  Kmiecin | |
| Coordinates: 54°11′18″N 19°8′36″E / 54.18833°N 19.14333°ECoordinates: 54°11′18″N 19°8′36″E / 54.18833°N 19.14333°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Nowy Dwór Gdański |
| Gmina | Nowy Dwór Gdański |
| Population | |
| • Total | 970 |
Kmiecin [ˈkmjɛt͡ɕin] (German: Fürstenau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Dwór Gdański, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 39 km (24 mi) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, 1772-1919 Prussia and Germany, 1920-1939 Free City of Danzig, 1939 - February 1945 Nazi Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
The village has a population of 970.
Notable people[]
- Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 in Fürstenau – 1881) a German orientalist, a philologist with interests in Baltic languages, and a mathematics historian
References[]
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