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{{Short description|Village in Kociewie}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Borzechowo
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Borzechowo, school.jpg
| image_caption = The village school
| 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 Zblewo|Zblewo]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|53|15|N|18|20|57|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| elevation_min_m = 105
| elevation_max_m = 120
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| population_total = 938
| registration_plate = GST
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW214-PL.svg|32px]]
}}

'''Borzechowo''' {{IPAc-pl|b|o|ż|e|'|h|o|w|o}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Zblewo]], within [[Starogard County]], [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|6|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Zblewo]], {{convert|15|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of [[Starogard Gdański]], and {{convert|57|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital [[Gdańsk]]. It is located on the shores of Borzechowskie Wielkie and Borzechowskie Małe lakes within the ethnocultural region of [[Kociewie]] in the historic region of [[Pomerania]].

The landmark of Borzechowo is [[Saint Anne]]'s church.

==History==
[[File:Neobarokowy kościół pw Św. Anny w Borzechowie 10.JPG|thumb|left|Saint Anne's church]]
Borzechowo 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>{{cite book|last1=Biskup|first1=Marian|last2=Tomczak|first2=Andrzej|year=1955|title=Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w.|language=pl|location=Toruń|page=110}}</ref> It was annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] in the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772. Despite the annexation, in the 19th century the village's population remained overwhelmingly [[Polish people|Polish]].<ref>{{cite book|author=|title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I|year=1880|language=pl|location=Warsaw|page=338}}</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]]), the Germans arrested the seven-member Polish family of Chamier-Gliszczyński, pre-war Polish activists, who stayed in the village after fleeing persecution in [[Płotowo]].<ref name=mw>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warsaw|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=81}}</ref> They were imprisoned in Starogard Gdański and then murdered in the [[Szpęgawski Forest]] along with the owner of the house in which they stayed.<ref name=mw/> Teachers from Borzechowo were among Polish teachers murdered by the Germans on October 20, 1939, in the Szpęgawski Forest as part of the ''[[Intelligenzaktion]]''.<ref>Wardzyńska, pp. 148-149</ref>

==References==
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{{Gmina Zblewo}}

[[Category:Populated lakeshore places in Poland]]
[[Category:Villages in Kociewie]]
[[Category:Villages in Starogard County]]

{{Starogard-geo-stub}}

Borzechowo - Revision history

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