<p><b>Fordon</b>, is a district in <a href="/pages/w/108342822520406">Bydgoszcz</a>, <a href="/pages/w/220553574631547">Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship</a>, <a href="/pages/w/106085842755444">Poland</a>, the number of residents is about 75,000. However, at the beginning the district had only 8,000 residents. Currently Fordon is the biggest district of <a href="/pages/w/108342822520406">Bydgoszcz</a>.</p><h2>House estates</h2><p>Fordon is subdivided into 16 house estates:</p><p>- Stary Fordon - Akademickie - Bajka - Bohaterów - Eskulapa - Kasztelanka - Łoskoń - Mariampol - Nad Wisłą - Niepodległości - Pałcz - Powiśle - Przylesie - Szybowników - Tatrzańskie - Zofin</p><h2>History</h2><p>Fordon is mentioned in sources for the first time in 1112 as "Wyszogród". In those times there was located an important defensive castle which was eventually fired and destroyed in 1330 by the Teutonic Knights.</p><p>At some point Fordon was located in the <a href="/pages/w/113294935386468">Grand Duchy of Posen</a> and later under direct Prussian control. It was returned to Poland at the end of the <a href="/pages/w/115361135141044">First World War</a>. In 1939 it was incorporated by the Third Reich. It is estimated that during the <a href="/pages/w/114829255197894">2nd World War</a> German soldiers killed from 1200 to 3000 people, mainly Poles and Jews, in the Death Valley of Fordon (<a href="/pages/w/119991104714493">Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)</a>). The exact number stays unknown as historians have not found appropriate documents that would state the final number of deaths. Finally in 1945 Fordon was liberated from Nazi occupation.</p><p>In 1950 Fordon was still a separate town from Bydgoszcz. At that time it was described as "seven miles east" of the latter city. It had a population of 3,514 people and manufactured such things as cement and paper. In 1973 Fordon became a part of the city of Bydgoszcz. The prison in Fordon was established in 1780 and changed into men's/women's prison a couple of times. From 1939-1956 among others, there were kept and killed 180 Ukrainian women in the prison. A memorial plaque was placed on the prison May 10, 1992.</p>