Wierzchowo (Człuchów)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Człuchów | ||
| Gmina : | Człuchów | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 36 ' N , 17 ° 25' E | ||
| Residents : | 349 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 59 | ||
| License plate : | GCZ | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DW 25 : Bobolice - Oleśnica | ||
| Wierzchowo - Mosiny | |||
| Rail route : | PKP route 426: Piła - Tczew | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Wierzchowo (German Firchau, district Schlochau ; Kashubian Wierzchòwò ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Człuchów ( Schlochau ) in the powiat Człuchowski (district Schlochau ).
Geographical location
Wierzchowo is located in the southwest of the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the national road 25 from Bobolice ( Bublitz ) via Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) to Oleśnica ( Oels ) in Silesia . The place is connected to Mosiny ( Mossin ) via a side road and connects to the Voivodeship Road 188 from Człuchów via Debrzno ( Prussian Friedland ) to Lipka ( Linde ), which is already in the Greater Poland Voivodeship .
The Firchau station was 1,920 to 1,939 German border station to the Polish Corridor . With its current name Wierzchowo Człuchowskie, it is located on the route from Kostrzyn nad Odrą ( Küstrin ) to Tczew ( Dirschau ), which once made history as the Prussian Eastern Railway as a connection from Berlin to Königsberg (Prussia) . The station is outside the village, the houses in its vicinity form the district of Wierzchowo-Dworzec .
The eastern local border is now also the border to the powiat Sępoleński ( Zempelburg district ) in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship .
Neighboring towns of Wierzchowo are: Jęczniki Wielki ( Groß Jenznick ) in the north-east, Dębnica ( Damnitz ) in the north-west, Płonica Wierzchowo ( plate service ) in the south-west and Bukowo ( Buchholz ) in the south-east.
Place name
Wierzchowo occurs more often as a place name in Poland, as well as the name of a lake. The German place name Firchau can only be found here.
history
Firchau is a very old settlement area. It was possible to excavate a late Bronze Age urn field of 200 by 150 meters.
In 1323 Commander Dietrich von Lichtenau intended to settle Firchau, but gave it up in favor of Mankau (now in Polish: Mąkowo). Heinrich von Grobitz finally presented a festival for Firchau in 1372.
Firchau - a small village - belonged to the district of Schlochau in the administrative region of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia in the Prussian province of Pomerania before 1945 . In 1939 the place had 618 inhabitants in 145 households. The local area was then 1466 hectares.
Today Wierzchowo belongs to the powiat Człuchowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). From 1945 to 1954 the village was the seat of an independent Gmina Wierzchowo. 331 residents now live here.
Local division until 1945
The commune of Firchau included the Bruchmühle, Firchau (Wierzchowo-Dworzec) and Mankau (Mąkowo) residential areas until 1945.
church
Catholic
The majority of the population of Wierzchowo is Catholic and was in Firchau before 1945. The former St. Mary's Church was built in 1546, but was demolished in 1928 to make way for a new building in 1930.
Today Wierzchowo is a parish in the deanery Człuchów ( Schlochau ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland . The church is named Kościół MB Szkaplerznej .
Evangelical
The Protestant inhabitants possessed before 1945 a small church in the district station Firchau. At that time the village belonged to the parish church in Grunau (now in Polish: Stare Gronowo), to which the towns of Battrow (Batorowo) and Marienfelde (Myśligoszcz) also belonged. The parish was in the church district Flatow of (Złotów) Prussian Union of churches built. The last German clergyman before 1945 was Pastor Theodor Haacke .
Today the few Protestant church members from Wierzchowo are incorporated into the parish Piła ( Schneidemühl ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
literature
- Manfred Vollack , Heinrich Löwe: The Schlochau district. A book from the Prussian-Pomeranian homeland . 2nd unchanged edition. Home District Committee Schlochau, Kiel 1976, ISBN 3-9800051-1-2 .
- Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 104.
- Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Volume 1: The parishes and their positions . Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV, Hamburg 1968, ( special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV 11, 1, ISSN 0505-2734 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 27, 2017