Mechowo (puck)
Mechowo ( German Mechau ) is a village in the rural community Puck ( Putzig ) in the Powiat Pucki ( Putzig district ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in the historical region of West Prussia , west of the Gdansk Bay , about ten kilometers west of the town of Puck ( Putzig ) on the Putziger Wiek , 14 kilometers north of Wejherowo ( Neustadt in West Prussia ) and fifty kilometers north-northwest of Gdansk .
history
The Putziger castle district, to which the farming village of Mechow belonged in the Middle Ages, came into the possession of the Teutonic Order State in 1309 . Mechow (Polish: Mechowo ) was probably owned by the Oliva monastery at this time . Later, the village of Neu-Mechau was founded near Mechow , which still bore this name at the end of the 16th century, was then renamed Lisnewo around 1661 and later Leßnau . In connection with the establishment of the latter village, the place name Mechow is likely to have been changed to Alt-Mechow . In 1412 the bailiff of the Oliva monastery, Brother Bartuchs, published the judgment in the legal dispute between the monastery and Peter Seczowitz , in which his claim that the village of Alt-Mechow belonged to him had been rejected.
Around 1663 Mechowa was still a property of the Oliva Monastery. After 1807, the peasant liberation was ordered by the state in Mechau .
In 1785 Mechow or Mechau is referred to as a royal village and leasehold farm with a Catholic church and 24 fireplaces (households). Around 1835 there was a water mill in Mechau. In 1850 Mechau is called a parish village and leasehold farm.
Until 1919 the village belonged to Mechau county Puck in the administrative district of Gdansk the province of West Prussia of the German Reich .
After the end of the First World War , the district area with the village of Mechau had to be ceded to Poland due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty for the purpose of establishing the Polish Corridor , with effect from January 20, 1920 and without a referendum. With the attack on Poland in 1939, the area of the Polish Corridor that had been annexed in violation of international law became part of the German Reich ; it was assigned to the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , to which Mechau belonged until 1945.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army liberated the district in the spring of 1945 and the place became part of Poland again.
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 205 | in 38 houses |
| 1864 | 544 | |
| 1871 | 424 | in 60 houses |
| 1905 | 436 | |
| 1910 | 418 |
Attractions
- Mechausche 'stalactite cave', a grotto in the village that was formed by limestone deposits and resembles a stalactite cave . In the grotto, shards of unpainted and unadorned large urns from prehistoric times, made of heavily gravel and therefore very light clay, were found. The exploration and structural protection of the “Cave of Mechau”, which is subject to severe erosion phenomena, is closely linked to the name of the Prussian President Theodor von Schön. The cave can currently be visited for an entrance fee.
literature
- Ludwig Friedrich v. Froriep: News of a strange stalactite cave near Mechau, not far from Putzig . In: Notes from nature and medicine , Volume 1, Erfurt 1822, column 213-214.
- August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore or description of Prussia. A manual for primary school teachers in the province of Prussia, as well as for all friends of the fatherland . Bornträger Brothers, Königsberg 1835, pp. 412–413 .
- Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872 ( e-copy ).
- Jürgen W. Schmidt: The Cave of Mechau - The West Prussian Upper President Theodor von Schön and the discovery, scientific research and structural protection of the so-called "stalactite cave" in Mechau near Putzig , in: Westpreußen-Jahrbuch, Vol. 59 (2007), Pp. 51-66, ISBN 978-3-9812143-1-4
Web links
- Rolf Jehke: Leßnau District (2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis/details.php?ID=3878
- ^ Leopold von Ledebur : New General Archive for the History of the Prussian State . Volume 2, Berlin / Posen and Bromberg 1836, pp. 334-335.
- ^ Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872, p. 126 .
- ^ Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872, p. 170 .
- ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I, Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the West Prussian Cammer Department , p. 132.
- ^ A b August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore or description of Prussia. A manual for primary school teachers in the province of Prussia, as well as for all friends of the fatherland . Bornträger Brothers, Königsberg 1835 ( full text ) ( register ).
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Massow: Alphabetical directory of all localities of the Prussian state . Magdeburg 1850,, p. 66 .
- ↑ JDF Rumpf und HF Rumpf: Complete topographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2, Berlin 1820, p. 234.
- ^ Prussian Ministry of Finance: The results of the property and building tax assessment in the administrative district of Danzig . Berlin 1867, 7th district Neustadt , p. 18, no.102.
- ^ Hans Prutz : History of the Neustadt district in West Prussia . Danzig 1872, p. 224, no.114 .
- ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/GOV:MECHAUJO94DR ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900///gem1900.htm?westpreussen/rb_danzig.htm
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : Painting of the physical world . Volume 2, Prague 1828, pp. 288-289.
- ↑ Ernst Förstemann : The northern Pomeranian and its Alherthümer . In: Preußische Provinzial-Blätter , Volume 9, Königsberg 1850, pp. 257–275, especially pp. 267–268.
Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ' N , 18 ° 17' E