Biskupia Górka

Biskupia Górka (German: Bischofsberg, sometimes Bischofshügel) is a neighbourhood and hill in Gdańsk, Poland, located in the Śródmieście district. Historically, Biskupia Górka had important strategic meaning, since it is a hill close to the main city.

Biskupia Górka
Neighbourhood of Gdańsk
Biskupia Street in Biskupia Górka
Location of Biskupia Górka within Śródmieście, Gdańsk
Coordinates: 54°20′37″N 18°38′18″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County/City	Gdańsk
District	Śródmieście
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	GD
Historic Monument of Poland
Designated	1994-09-08
Part of	Gdańsk – city within the 17th-century fortifications
Reference no.	M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 415[1]

History

As part of the Kingdom of Poland it was a possession of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[2] Fortifications were built on the hill in the 17th century. After the Partitions of Poland, Polish insurgents of the November Uprising were imprisoned by the Prussians in the fortifications.^[3]

Following the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, the Germans established a subcamp of the Stalag XX-A prisoner-of-war camp, in which Polish POWs were held.^[4] It was later converted into a subcamp of the Stalag XX-B camp, and its prisoners were mostly the French.^[4] Some 1,200 POWs were held there as of December 31, 1940.^[5]

On July 4, 1946, eleven guards and kapos of the Stutthof concentration camp were publicly hanged for what was described as "sadistic abuse of prisoners." Among those hanged were five women: Gerda Steinhoff, Wanda Klaff, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradies and Elisabeth Becker, all of whom had been convicted during the first Stutthof Trial, at Gdańsk between April 25 and May 31, 1946.

The former Mennonite church is located in Biskupia Górka.

See also

• Gdańsk Biskupia Górka (train station)

References

1. Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii., M.P., 1994, vol. 50, No. 415
2. Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 91.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Kasparek, Norbert (2014). "Żołnierze polscy w Prusach po upadku powstania listopadowego. Powroty do kraju i wyjazdy na emigrację". In Katafiasz, Tomasz (ed.). Na tułaczym szlaku... Powstańcy Listopadowi na Pomorzu (in Polish). Koszalin: Muzeum w Koszalinie, Archiwum Państwowe w Koszalinie. p. 177.
4. Daniluk, Jan (2021). "Stalag XX B Marienburg: geneza i znaczenie obozu jenieckiego w Malborku-Wielbarku w latach II wojny światowej". In Grudziecka, Beata (ed.). Stalag XX B: historia nieopowiedziana (in Polish). Malbork: Muzeum Miasta Malborka. p. 8. ISBN 978-83-950992-2-9.
5. Daniluk, Jan (2012). "Wykorzystanie siły roboczej jeńców wojennych w XX Okręgu Wojskowym w latach II wojny światowej (zarys problemu)". Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny (in Polish). 35. Opole: 26–27.

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