Świekatowo ś is a village in Świecie County

Swiecie County

Świecie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Świecie,...

, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

-Transportation:Transportation infrastructure is of critical importance to the voivodeship's economy. Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node point in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz in order to reach the major ports on the Baltic Sea...

, in north-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Świekatowo

Gmina Swiekatowo

Gmina Świekatowo is a rural gmina in Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Świekatowo, which lies approximately west of Świecie and north of Bydgoszcz....

. It lies approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Świecie

Swiecie

Świecie is a town in northern Poland with 25,968 inhabitants , situated in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship ; it was previously in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship . It is the capital of Świecie County.-History:...

 and 35 km (22 mi) north of Bydgoszcz.

The village has a population of 1,700.

Massacre during Second World War

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German forces on 3 September murdered 26 Poles. The massacre happened as Poles were attending Church mass from which they were dragged out by German soldiers and shot.