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{{Short description|Village in Kociewie}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bobowo
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Bobowoschool2.JPG
| image_caption = Primary school in Bobowo
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| image_map =
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Pomeranian Voivodeship|Pomeranian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Starogard County|Starogard]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Bobowo|Bobowo]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|53|3|N|18|33|22|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_as_of = 2022
| population_total = 1485
| website =
}}
'''Bobowo''' ({{IPAc-pl|b|o|'|b|o|w|o}} is a [[village]] in [[Starogard County]], [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland. It is the seat of the [[gmina]] (administrative district) called [[Gmina Bobowo]].{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|10|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Starogard Gdański]] and {{convert|54|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital [[Gdańsk]]. It is located within the ethnocultural region of [[Kociewie]] in the historic region of [[Pomerania]].

The landmark of Bobowo is the Saint Adalbert church.

==History==
[[File:Bobowo73.JPG|thumb|left|Memorial to Polish farmers of Bobowo killed during the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation of Poland]] ([[World War II]])]]
Bobowo was a royal village of the [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Polish Crown]], administratively located in the Tczew County in the [[Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772)|Pomeranian Voivodeship]].<ref>Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, ''Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w.'', Toruń, 1955, p. 110 (in Polish)</ref> It was annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia|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.<ref>''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Tom I, Warsaw, 1880, p. 257-258 (in Polish)</ref> After Poland regained independence in 1918, the village was restored to Poland.

During the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation of Poland]] ([[World War II]]), in October 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of seven [[Polish people|Poles]] in the village.<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', [[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]], Warsaw, 2009, p. 274 (in Polish)</ref> Teachers from Bobowo were among Polish teachers murdered by the Germans on October 20, 1939, in the [[Szpęgawski Forest]] as part of the ''[[Intelligenzaktion]]''.<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', p. 148-149</ref> Dozens of Polish families were [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|expelled]] to the [[General Government]], deported for [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] to Germany or assigned as forced laborers to new German colonists.<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945'', [[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]], Warsaw, 2017, p. 56, 132 (in Polish)</ref>

==References==
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{{Gmina Bobowo}}

[[Category:Villages in Kociewie]]
[[Category:Villages in Starogard County]]

{{Starogard-geo-stub}}

Bobowo - Revision history

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