Biskupia Górka | |
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Neighbourhood ofGdańsk | |
 Biskupia Street in Biskupia Górka | |
 Location of Biskupia Górka withinŚródmieście, Gdańsk | |
| Coordinates:54°20′37″N18°38′18″E / 54.34361°N 18.63833°E /54.34361; 18.63833 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County/City | Gdańsk |
| District | Śródmieście |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GD |
| Designated | 1994-09-08 |
| Part of | Gdańsk – city within the 17th-century fortifications |
| Reference no. | M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 415[1] |
Biskupia Górka (German:Bischofsberg, sometimesBischofshügel) is a neighbourhood and hill inGdańsk,Poland, located in theŚródmieście district. Historically, Biskupia Górka had important strategic meaning, since it is a hill close to the main city.
As part of theKingdom of Poland it was a possession of theRoman Catholic Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Gdańsk County in thePomeranian Voivodeship.[2] Fortifications were built on the hill in the 17th century. After thePartitions of Poland,Polish insurgents of theNovember Uprising were imprisoned by the Prussians in the fortifications.[3]
Following the Germaninvasion of Poland, which startedWorld War II in 1939, the Germans established a subcamp of theStalag XX-Aprisoner-of-war camp, in which Polish POWs were held.[4] It was later converted into a subcamp of theStalag XX-B camp, and its prisoners were mostly theFrench.[4] Some 1,200 POWs were held there as of December 31, 1940.[5]
On July 4, 1946, eleven guards andkapos of theStutthof concentration camp were publicly hanged for what was described as "sadistic abuse of prisoners." Among those hanged were five women:Gerda Steinhoff,Wanda Klaff,Jenny-Wanda Barkmann,Ewa Paradies andElisabeth Becker, all of whom had been convicted during the firstStutthof trial, at Gdańsk between April 25 and May 31, 1946.
The former Mennonite church is located in Biskupia Górka.
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