Korne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kościerzyna, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia in the historic region of Pomerania.
Korne was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.Marian Biskup, Andrzej Tomczak, Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w., Toruń, 1955, pp. 110, 112 (in Polish)
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the Germans murdered the pre-war Polish wójt of Korne (local administration official) in the nearby village of Gostomie as part of the Intelligenzaktion.Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 155 (in Polish)
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