Starlings Wierzchowo

Starlings Wierzchowo
	Starlings Wierzchowo
	Starlings Wierzchowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Szczecinek
Gmina :	Gmina Szczecinek
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 ' N , 16 ° 41' E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '42 " N , 16 ° 40' 50" E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Wierzchowo - Biały Bór
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów
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Stare Wierzchowo (German Sassenburg ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczecinek ( rural community Neustettin ) in the Powiat Szczecinecki ( Neustettin district ).

Geographical location

Located on the south bank of the Jezioro Wierzchowo ( Virchowsee ) and on the lower reaches of the Gwda ( Küddow ), the village of Stare Wierzchowo is surrounded by an idyllic rural landscape. A secondary road which the village Wierzchowo ( Wurchow , at the major road 11 Kołobrzeg ( Kolberg ) - pose - Bytom ( Beuthen / OS )) with the small town Bialy Bór ( Baldenburg , the provincial roads 20 Stargard ( Stargard Szczeciński ) - Gdynia ( Gdynia ) and 25 Bobolice ( Bublitz ) - Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) - Oleśnica ( Oels )) runs right through the village. The district town of Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) is located to the south and can be reached in 18 kilometers.

There is no train connection. The nearest train stations are in Biały Bór ( Baldenburg , 14 km) on the Piła – Ustka railway line and Iwin ( Elfenbusch , 17 km) on the Szczecinek – Kołobrzeg railway line .

history

Sassenburg was founded in 1579.

In 1925 the village had 543 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 508 by 1933 and was still 484 in 1939. Until 1927, the place was a village in the Bublitz district (now in Polish: Bobolice) in the Köslin administrative district of the Prussian province of Pomerania . On October 1, 1932, Sassenburg was spun off into the Neustettin district due to a merger of the Bublitz and Köslin districts to form the district of Köslin , which from 1939 belonged to the administrative district of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Sassenburg was occupied by the Red Army in early March 1945 . After the war, Sassenburg became part of Poland as Stare Wierzchowo .

Stare Wierzchowo today has about 140 inhabitants.

church

The village church of Sassenburg and Stare Wierzchowo dates from the 18th century. In 1928 it was rebuilt. The church is now called Kościół pw.Matki Boskiej Dobrej Rady .

Until 1945 - the majority of the population was of Protestant denomination - the parish of Sassenburg was a branch parish in the parish of Wurchow (now in Polish: Wierzchowo). It belonged to the church district of Bublitz ( Bobolice ) in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 the parish had 502 (out of 2,493 in the entire parish) parishioners. The last German clergyman was Pastor August Jeschke .

A predominantly Catholic population has lived in Stare Wierzchowo since 1945 . The place is now the seat of its own parish, to which the subsidiary communities Kazimierz ( Kasimirshof ) and Spore ( Sparsee ) belong. It is affiliated to the dean's office Bobolice ( Bublitz ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .

literature

Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Edited due to the Steinbrück'schen Ms. . Part 2: Ernst Müller: The administrative district of Köslin . Sannier, Stettin 1912.

Web links

Website of Gmina Szczecinek