Strzekęcino

Strzekęcino
	Strzekęcino
	Strzekęcino
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Świeszyno
Geographic location :	54 ° 6 ' N , 16 ° 10' E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '1 " N , 16 ° 9' 37" E
Residents :	620 (2006)
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 167 : Koszalin - Tychowo - Ogartowo
Rail route :	Nearest train station: Koszalin on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line
Next international airport :	Szczecin Airport
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Strzekęcino (German Streckenthin ) is a village in the rural municipality Świeszyno (Schwessin) in the Powiat Koszaliński of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The village is two kilometers south of Świeszyno and eleven kilometers from Koszalin ( Köslin ) in Western Pomerania .

history

In 1170 the village was mentioned under its then Wendish name Strigotine as one of the eleven founding villages of the later Buckow Monastery , ten of which were deserted and uninhabited. As a result of previous wars, the village of Strigotine lay desolate for decades and was only brought back to life and cultivated by the monastery in the first quarter of the 13th century after the settlement of German colonists.

Streckenthin was later one of the most important works in the area and belonged to the von Kameke Junkers family . Streckenthin became internationally known as the center of potato cultivation in the first half of the 20th century. Junker Kartz von Kameke-Streckenthin set up a potato cultivation company on his family's estates, from which at times considerable parts of the potato cultivation companies of the then German Empire were supplied with seeds. As a result, a large number of other potato-growing businesses settled around Streckenthin. Around 1926 the area was considered one of the largest seed farming in the world. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Amber Palace

Culture and sights

In Strzekęcino there is the Amber Palace (pl. Bursztynowy Pałac ), which was built between 1899 and 1901 in the Belle Époque style of the von Kameke family. The building has been used as a hotel since 1994. On the grounds of the Amber Palace there is a 12 hectare park whose origins go back to the 18th century.

Web links

Volker Janke, "Western Pomerania - the promised land of potato breeding", Samensurium, issue 12, 2001 (PDF file; 4.07 MB)

Footnotes

↑ Friedrich von Dreger : Dodex Diplomaticus. Or certificates, so the Pomeranian, Rügian and Camini also approach other neighboring countries . Szczecin 1748, Tom. I, pp. 10-11.

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[1] Friedrich von Dreger : Dodex Diplomaticus. Or certificates, so the Pomeranian, Rügian and Camini also approach other neighboring countries . Szczecin 1748, Tom. I, pp. 10-11.