Rokitnica, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Rokitnica ( German Müggenhahl ) is a village in the powiat Gdański the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland.

Geographical location

The village is located about four kilometers east of Pruszcz Gdański ( German Praust ) and eleven kilometers south of the regional capital Gdańsk (Danzig ) on the so-called Danziger height or Höchte (Polish Zyzyna ).

Place name

The place name comes Rokitnica in Poland before six times. The German place name Müggenhahl is borrowed from the Low German and means sowiel like, Mückenloch '.

History

The village belonged before 1919 to the German province of West Prussia, and was after the First World War, assigned to the territory of the Free City of Danzig under the Versailles Treaty. After the Second World War the site was put together with the entire region under Polish administration. The village is now a part of the newly founded in 1999, Polish powiat County Gdański.

Development of the population

Sons and daughters of the town

Footnotes

  • Place of Pomeranian Voivodeship
  • Gmina Pruszcz Gdański
Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland
585931
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