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{{Short description|Village in Kociewie}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Pinczyn
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Ściana północna kościoła.jpg
| image_caption = Saint Elisabeth church in Pinczyn
| 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 Zblewo|Zblewo]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|57|44|N|18|20|47|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_min_m = 102
| elevation_max_m = 142
| population_total = 2697
| website =
}}
'''Pinczyn''' {{IPAc-pl|'|p|i|n|cz|y|n}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Zblewo]], within [[Starogard County]], [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|4|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of [[Zblewo]], {{convert|13|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of [[Starogard Gdański]], and {{convert|49|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the regional capital [[Gdańsk]]. It is located within the ethnocultural region of [[Kociewie]] in the historic region of [[Pomerania]].

==History==
Pinczyn 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. 112 (in Polish)</ref>
[[File:Figura Ks. Stanisława Hoffmana.jpg|thumb|left|Monument to Stanisław Hoffman, pre-war Pinczyn parish priest murdered by the Germans in October 1939]]
During the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation of Poland]] ([[World War II]]), local [[Polish people|Poles]] were subjected to [[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|various crimes]]. The local parish priest Stanisław Hoffman was arrested on October 13, 1939, imprisoned and tortured in Starogard Gdański, and murdered in the [[Szpęgawski Forest]] along with other Polish priests on October 16.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swzygmunt.knc.pl/MARTYROLOGIUM/POLISHRELIGIOUS/vPOLISH/HTMs/POLISHRELIGIOUSmartyr0927.htm|title=Stanisław Hoffman|accessdate=9 August 2020|language=Polish}}</ref> Local Polish teachers were murdered in the Szpęgawski Forest on October 20, 1939, and several Poles from Pinczyn were in 1939 also murdered in the [[Zajączek, Pomeranian Voivodeship|Zajączek]] forest nearby (see ''[[Intelligenzaktion]]'').<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', [[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]], Warsaw, 2009, p. 148-149, 153-154 (in Polish)</ref> In 1942, several Polish families were [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|expelled]] from the village to [[Potulice]] and afterwards deported either to the [[General Government]] or to [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]], while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the ''[[Lebensraum]]'' policy.<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. 120 (in Polish)</ref>

==References==
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{{Gmina Zblewo}}
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[[Category:Villages in Kociewie]]
[[Category:Villages in Starogard County]]

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Pinczyn - Revision history

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