Mechowo (Pyrzyce)

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Mechowo (German Megow ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Pyrzyce (municipality of Pyritz) in the Powiat Pyrzycki (Pyritzer Kreis) .

Village church from the 13th century, tower from 1861

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania in the Pyritzer Weizacker , about 40 km southeast of Stettin and about 5 km east of the district town of Pyritz .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document from 1227. At that time, Duke Barnim I of Pomerania and his mother Duchess Miroslawa confirmed the Marienbusch monastery and awarded it several villages, including the village of "Meghow" in the country of Pyritz. A Burkhard von Megow appears in a document from 1243.

Building with the coat of arms of the von Schöning family

From the 14th century Megow was owned by the von Schöning family . The estate later came to the von Küssow family ; Among the owners were Bernd Joachim von Küssow (* 1687; † 1743), district administrator of the Pyritz district, and his son Christian Friedrich von Küssow (* 1721; † 1758), district administrator of the New Mark district of Soldin.

In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784) Megow is listed as a "considerable good" among the noble estates of the Pyritzsche Kreis . At that time there was a farm here, i.e. the estate, a water mill with oil and groats mill and cutting mill, six farms, four kossaten positions, a forge and a schoolmaster, a total of 41 households ("fire places"). Megow then belonged to Bernd George Friedrich Graf von Küssow, a lieutenant in von Mauschwitz's cuirassier regiment .

1797 bought the district administrator August Ernst von Schöning (* 1745; † 1807) Megow and brought it back into the possession of the Schöning family. His son, District Administrator August Peter von Schöning (* 1780; † 1858), built the new mansion in 1849 after the previous mansion had burned down. After his death, the estate was inherited by the von Heyden-Linden family , who owned it until 1945. After Megow came to Poland, the property was expropriated by the Polish state without compensation. The mansion survived the Second World War.

Megow belonged to the district of Pyritz in the province of Pomerania until 1945 . Until 1929/1930 the manor formed an independent manor district next to the rural community Megow. The manor district was then incorporated into the rural community Megow. In the rural community, next to Megow, the brickyard residential area was run. On April 1, 1938 Megow was incorporated into the neighboring rural community Lettnin .

After the Second World War Megow came to Poland and received the Polish place name "Mechowo". The residents were expelled and replaced by Poles .

Village church

Pulpit with coat of arms of the von Küssow family

The village church is a brick building from the 13th century; it is one of the first stone buildings in the area. The tower was added in 1861.

The inventory includes a renaissance style pulpit . It bears the coat of arms of the von Küssow family with the inscription "Peter Kusso 1604".

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 230.
  • Helmut Sieber : Castles and mansions in Pomerania . 3. Edition. Verlag Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8035-8012-9 , pp. 85-86, 206 (picture of the manor house).

Web links

Commons : Megow  - collection of images

Footnotes

  1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 242.
  2. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 411.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 2. Stettin 1784, p. 152 f., No. 41 ( online )
  4. ^ Municipality of Megow in the Pomeranian information system.
  5. ↑ Systematic directory of name and inventory changes of municipalities . Excerpts from: Fritz R. Barran: City Atlas Pomerania . 2nd Edition. Rautenberg, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8003-3097-0 , p. 192.

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 14 ° 58'  E