{{short description|District of the city of Gniezno, Poland}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Dziekanka | settlement_type = District of Gniezno | image_skyline = MPPP Gniezno (2019 r.).jpg | image_caption = Museum of the Polish State Origins in Dziekanka | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = Greater Poland | subdivision_type2 = County/City | subdivision_name2 = Gniezno | coordinates = {{coord|52|31|47|N|17|34|42|E|region:PL|display=it}} | pushpin_map = Poland | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | registration_plate = PGN }} '''Dziekanka''' is a district of Gniezno, Poland,<ref>{{Cite Polish law|title=Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części|year=2013|number=200}}</ref> located in the western part of the city.
The Museum of the Polish State Origins and the Dziekanka Regional Psychiatric Hospital are located in Dziekanka.
==History== In 1894, a psychiatric hospital was established in Dziekanka.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), between 7 December 1939 and 12 January 1940, the ''SS-Sonderkommandos'' gassed some 1,200 patients of the local psychiatric hospital (see ''Aktion T4'').<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=IPN|pages=216–217}}</ref>
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Category:Gniezno Category:Neighbourhoods in Poland Category:Attacks on hospitals in Poland during World War II Category:Sites of Nazi war crimes in Poland Category:Sites of massacres of Poles in World War II