Szpęgawsk

{{Short description|Village in Kociewie}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Szpęgawsk

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Szpęgawsk, monument at the place of execution.jpg

| image_caption = Monument at the place of execution in Szpęgawsk Forest.

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Pomeranian

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Starogard

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Starogard Gdański

| coordinates = {{coord|54|0|17|N|18|36|25|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = right

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| population_total = 620

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Szpęgawsk {{IPAc-pl|'|sz|p|e|n|g|a|f|s|k}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}} It lies approximately {{convert|7|km|mi|0}} north-east of Starogard Gdański and {{convert|41|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

During the Nazi occupation, 5,000-7,000 Polish civilians were executed between September 1939 and January 1941 in the Forest of Szpęgawsk (Las Szpęgawski), most of them intellectuals and Jews from Pomerania, and 2000 psychiatric patients from the Kocborowo hospital near Starogard Gdariski.:pl:Zbrodnia w Lesie Szpęgawskim{{Cite web |title=Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance |url=https://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/staettens/view/923/Mass-Graves-of-Polish-Victims-of-National-Socialist-Crimes |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=www.memorialmuseums.org}}