Parchowo
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Bytowski | ||
| Gmina : | Parchowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 12 ' N , 17 ° 40' E | ||
| Residents : | 1147 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 77-124 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 59 | ||
| License plate : | GBY | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Żukowo - Bytów | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Parchowo or Kashubian Parchòwò (German Parchau ) is a village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of Gmina Parchowo (Parchau rural community) in the Powiat Bytowski (Bütower district) . The municipality with over 3700 inhabitants has been bilingual Polish and Kashubian since 2006.
geography
Parchowo is located between the cities of Gdańsk ( Danzig ) and Słupsk ( Stolp ) in a scenic area that is characterized by forests and lakes. The area belongs to the Kashubian Lake District. The 384 hectare Mausz ( Großer Mausch-See ) is in the immediate vicinity . A 214 hectare peat and forest nature reserve is also nearby. The next larger town is Bytów ( Bütow ), 17 kilometers to the west.
history
Pre-medieval urn finds testify to an early settlement around today's Parchowo. In 1253 the place was mentioned in writing by a bishop Wolimir, who reported a decree of the tithe because of the poor income situation of agriculture. It is believed that the parish was established around 1230 by the Pomeranian Duke Swantopolk II . While it was part of Pomerania, the place was under the castle district of Chmielno (Chmelno).
After the Pomeranian dukes died out, the country fell to the Teutonic Order in 1310 , but the local affairs of Parchowos continued to be regulated under Polish law. The knights of the order ruled here until 1466, before they had to hand over Pomerania to Poland with the Second Peace of Thorne.
From 1567 to 1772 Parchowo was the seat of a Starostei , but for a long time the parish belonged to the Bütow deanery in Pomerania. In 1666 a great fire broke out in the village, which also destroyed the wooden church. However, it was rebuilt in the same year.
As a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Parchowo came under Prussian rule. It was now with its German name Parchau in the province of West Prussia and after the Prussian administrative reform came to the district of Karthaus in the administrative district of Danzig. In 1855 the new building of the St. Nicholas Church, which still exists today, was consecrated. Before the outbreak of the First World War, the place had 660 inhabitants.
Germany lost large parts of West Prussia through the Treaty of Versailles , and so Parchau / Parchowo came back to Poland in 1920. It was now administered in the Kartuzy powiat in the Gdansk Voivodeship. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , Parchowo came under German occupation, which lasted until March 1945.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Mechthild Sarrazin (1920–2014), German sculptor and painter
Web links
- Community website (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017