Oksywie

Oksywie (German: Oxhöft, Kashubian: Òksëwiô) is a district of the city of Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland.

Both the Polish and then German name of the town, as well as various other names for it used in the past (among them Oxsiua, Oxive, Okciua, Oxue, Oxivia, Oxiuia, Oxiwia, Oxiew and Oxivija) stem from a Scandinavian word oxihoved meaning oxen head.

Christianised relatively early, the settlement housed a Catholic shrine erected in 1224 by Swietopelk I, Duke of Pomerania.

Oksywie was a possession of the Premonstratensian Monastery in Żukowo, administratively located in the Puck County of the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland.

During the last stages of the war, the area yet again became a battlefield, this time between March 28 and April 5, 1945, when the Oksywie Heights became the last stand of the surrounded German forces in Pomerania.

Medieval Saint Michael Archangel church, the oldest building in Oksywie