Miłobądz, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Miłobądz () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tczew, within Tczew County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Tczew and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania. The village has a population of 878. History. The settlement dates back to prehistoric times and there is a cemetery from the Iron Age in the village, now an archaeological site. The name of the village comes from the Old Polish male name Miłobąd. It was the site of an  early medieval stronghold, which is also an archaeological site. It became part of the emerging Polish state under Poland's first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. Within the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Miłobądz was a private church village of the Diocese of Włocławek, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several Poles from Miłobądz, including teachers, were among the victims of large massacres of Poles carried out by the Germans in the Szpęgawski Forest in 1939 as part of the "Intelligenzaktion". Education. There  is a primary school in Miłobądz. Transport. The Polish National road 91 runs through the village, and Polish Railway line 9, which connects Warsaw with Gdańsk runs nearby, east of the village. References.