Local history
Information about the town – Polska / pomorskie
Brusy is a town in the southern Kaszuby region, in a subregion called Zabory (due to its location behind the Bory Tucholskie, the forest complex around the town of Tuchola). Zabory was under the rule of Pomerenian Dukes until the 12th century. During the existence of the State of Teutonic Order, the region was incorporated into Komturei (commandry) of the Tuchola region. The history of Brusy dates back to the Middle Ages when the village was granted a settlement privilege by the Komtur (commander) of the Tuchola region, Konrad Vullekop, in 1351. After that, Brusy became a so called "servient village" (a village whose residents owed their Lord some, often specialized, services. The name of a village frequently stemmed from the kind of service rendered by it) under the authority of Kosobudy where the seat of the administrator of the Zabory region was located [1.1]. After the Thirteen Years' War the village was incorporated into the royal estates belonging to the Kosobudy region [1.2]
It was not until the 19th century that the village began developing, after the first paved road had been built in 1856 and the railway Chojnice-Brusy had appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. After Poland regained its independance in 1919, Brusy became a significant center of forest and timber processing and also third town in the newly cretated County of Chojnice in terms of population[1.2]
During the Second World War, on September 24, 1944, in the village Dziamiany the Nazis established a branch of the concentration camp in Stutthof (Sztutowo) which operated until January 1945, known as Sophienwalde. [1.4]
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[1.1] http://www.brusy.pl/index.php?a=7&lg=pl&id=1
[1.2] http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusy
[1.3] http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusy
[1.4] Śladami żydowskimi po Kaszubach, ed. Miłosławy Borzyszkowskiej - Szewczyk, pp. 207-213, Luebeck-Gdańsk-Muenchen 2010
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