The Szemud Commune is situated in the central part of the Pomeranian province , in the administrative district Wejherowo. The entire commune area is 176, 57 km2, including 37,28 km2 of forests Tricity Landscape Park. The Szemud Commune includes 22 villages with headmen. The population growth seems to provide for being a developing one - as for December 31, 2007, it increased to 13,372 people, at the density of population 76 persons/1km2. An abode of communal authorities is Szemud.

The Szemud Commune borders on the city of Gdynia, in the north, it borders on the Wejherowo commune, in the north-east, it has a border with the Luzino commune, in the west, the neighbouring commune is that Linia, and in the south the commune of Przodkowo, Kartuzy and Żukowo are the neighbouring ones. Next door to are found: toward to the east - the agglomeration of the Tri-city and in the radius 40-at the km: Rumia, Reda, Wejherowo, Lębork and Kartuzy.

The commune lies in the small of the back of morainal hills. These grounds are strongly pleated, especially in parts Northern and westerly, because lie in the small of the back of morainal hills.

Klimat assorts the type polar-sea-. Wests dominate, bringing air masses from the northwest - warm in winter and cool in summer. A consequence of the position in this zone is the large variability of weather conditionses and the short period of summer, with comparatively low temperatures of air. Instead the winter lasts on this ground comparatively long.

Landscape of the Szemud land is the varied, with a great many forests, beautiful hills, valleys and lakes, a large number of peat-bogs, the sources of six rivers with numerous nameless tributaries. This rivers are: Gościcinka (is situated in well-head areas of the Reda river), Zagórska Struga (from lake Marchowskie ahigh 153 above sea-level, drains directly to the Gulf Gdańska), Kacza (drains directly to the Gulf Gdańska), Strzelanka (source ahigh 160 above sea-level, to Radunia river), Trzy Rzeki (to Radunia river), the Dębnica (to Łeba river). In the south is found the lake of the demersal moraine - Otalżyno, a little north gutter lake - lake Tuchomek, lying on the border with the commune Żukowo and Przodkowo. To greater lakes to number one ought also lakes Kielno, Orzechowo and Marchowo.

Characteristic there are also complexes of marshy grounds and swamps, which is a splendid image of nature, having a great many varieties of moss, black and red berries, marsh cranberries, as well as the narrow-leafed eriophorum and the wide-leafed typha, but also ledum, ordinary and marsh heather, and a juniper-like lycopodium representing a whole family of Lycopodiales. Furthermore, you can find differently aged trees there, namely hornbeams, beeches, birches, pines, as well as some bush varieties.

Similarly how the flora so and the fauna is determined by the diverse sculpture and the hydrographic network and additionally a variety of vegetable assemblages. In forests most often meet one can the squir-rels, roe-deer, the wild boar and the stag, more seldom the fallow deer and the elk. Commonly appears also the fox, the hare or the badger.

Birds create rich, because counting about 250 sorts the group. From among such number to exchange {to mention} one ought the heron, the black stork, the raven, whether the crane and in with difficulty accessible forests the wood grouse. The number of amphibia and reptilia to other animals is small. There one her values on properly 9 (among other things newts, toads and frogs and frog low-lying) and 5 (among other things the blindworm, the zigzag viper , the lizard the species of frog) sorts.

Most interested places within the commune are grounds Tricity Landscape Park and the area round lakes Kamień, Wysoka, Otalżyno and Marchowo, the determining subsidiaries recreational and weekend for inhabitants of the Tri-city. There are do not appear special water pollutions and impurities of soils and airs. The lack of the here great industry and one kept the comparatively undefiled environment what underlie additional trumps of the ground as the potential possibilities of the development of the tourism and the recreation.

Come into being here centres of the concentrated building for not the agricultural population - this are villages Szemud, Bojano, Koleczkowo, Dobrzewino, Kielno and Kamień. One observes peopling of these localities by the population from the Tri-city whose main directions of the professional activity are situated outside the Szemud's commune area.

Continued are, having the tradition of long standing investments into the recreational building of attractive grounds around lakes. Pulls this behind himself the necessity of investing into refineries of sewage, in order to to protect resources of surface waters before the excessive dirt.

Economically the Commune Szemud has an agricultural character with created and lately enough supplely with being developed with the section service--productive which concentrates mostly in the small of the back way Chwaszczyno - Wejherowo. On the commune“s area is not there large industrial plants, instead tens firms represents different lines, in this such as slaughter-house, bottling works of drinks, automobile shops or joiner′s shops. Basing on local resources of work firms providing into the aggregate large firms from the Tri-city.

Dozens of farms specializing in agricultural tourism contribute to the service scope and to the development of active tourism, including walking, cycling, water sports and angling, both at one and at many sites. But first of all, the tourists can admire the district's landscape which changes in each subsequent season.

The commune is fully stelefonizowana. Close by the stationary network is accessible also the network of the cordless (Poland the Digital Telephony , PTK Centertel, Plus GSM, Era GSM) telephony .

In the futures one plans the further extension of the water mains, the build modern technologically the refinery of sewage along with with the sewer system in Szemudzie and Koleczkowie and the modernization of the energy network of the commune's area. Simultaneously up to date is modernized existing way and plans the build new.

A challenge for the commune is further, possibly latissimus, the development of the base tourist (hotels, inns, the good cooking, camping sites, putting golf greens, racecourses etc.) and agricultural tourism. 

Romuald Janca

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