Wysoka, Starogard County

For other places with the same name, see Wysoka.

Wysoka [vɨˈsɔka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bobowo, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Bobowo, 11 km (7 mi) south of Starogard Gdański, and 56 km (35 mi) south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.

Wysoka
Village
Wysoka
Coordinates: 53°52′39″N 18°29′46″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Starogard
Gmina	Bobowo
Population	463
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Wysoka was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several Polish families from Wysoka were expelled and their farms were handed over to Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, p. 113 (in Polish)
3. Maria Wardzyńska, Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945, IPN, Warsaw, 2017, p. 56 (in Polish)