Wierzchucino

Wierzchucino [vjɛʂxuˈt͡ɕinɔ]) (German: Wierschutzin)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

[4] In the early modern period (16th-18th centuries) the village had still been property of the nunnery of Żarnowiec.

[5][6] After the First Partition of Poland it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany.

[7] After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in 1945, the village became again part of Poland.

There is a historic Gothic Revival Sacred Heart church in Wierzchucino, and a memorial to Polish-Kashubian activist Antoni Miotk [pl].