Tczew (Kashubian: Derszowo; German Dirschau) is a town on the river Vistula in Eastern Pomerania region, in northern Poland with 60,000 inhabitants (2002).

It is the capital of Tczew County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously a town in Gdansk Voivodship (1975-1998).

People born in Tczew

• Alfred Eisenstaedt
• Johann Reinhold Forster

Population

1960: 33,700 inhabitants
1970: 41,100 inhabitants
1975: 47,000 inhabitants
1980: 53,600 inhabitants
1990: 59,500 inhabitants
1995: 60,600 inhabitants
2000: 61,200 inhabitants
2001: 61,400 inhabitantss
2002: 60,000 inhabitants

External link

• Municipal webpage