Wierzchowo (Powiat Drawski)
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | West Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Drawsko Pomorskie | ||
| Gmina : | Wierzchowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 28 ' N , 16 ° 6' E | ||
| Height : | 137 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 1541 (2007) | ||
| Postal code : | 78-350 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 94 | ||
| License plate : | ZDR | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ext. 177 : Czaplinek - Wieleń , branch: Sośnica | ||
| Sośnica - Złocieniec | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Szczecin-Goleniów | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Rural community | ||
| Gmina structure: | 19 localities | ||
| 11 school offices | |||
| Surface: | 229.19 km² | ||
| Residents: | 4282 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 19 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 3203052 | ||
| Administration (as of 2012) | |||
| Address: | ul.Długa 29 78-350 Wierzchowo |
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| Website : | www.wierzchowo.pl | ||
Wierzchowo (German Virchow ) is a village and a rural community in the Powiat Drawski ( Dramburg district ) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .
The area of the rural community covers 229.19 km², which corresponds to 13% of the total area of the Powiat Drawski . 4499 inhabitants are registered in the municipality, 1541 of whom live in Wierzchowo.
Geographical location
Wierzchowo is located in the southeastern area of the Powiat Drawski in the city triangle of Złocieniec ( Falkenburg , 12 km), Czaplinek ( Tempelburg , 15 km) and Mirosławiec ( Märkisch Friedland , 13 km) on a side road that connects Złocieniec with Sośnica ( Herzberg ). Just as the place is located away from the main roads, a rail connection is even more lacking, as the Wierzchowo train station was on the Złocieniec– Kalisz Pomorski ( Kallies ) line until the 1990s and there was also a light rail line to Deutsch Krone .
The southern border of the Gmina Wierzchowo is also the district boundary to the Powiat Wałecki ( Deutsch Krone district ). Neighboring communities are:
- Czaplinek ( Tempelburg ), Kalisz Pomorski ( Kallies ) and Złocieniec ( Falkenburg ) in the Powiat Drawski ,
- Mirosławiec ( Märkisch Friedland ) and Wałcz ( Deutsch Krone ) in the Powiat Wałecki .
Others
The place name " Wierzchowo " occurs in the Polish Pomerania in the powiat Człuchowski (district Schlochau ) and in the powiat Szczecinecki (district Neustettin ). The German name " Virchow " corresponds to the earlier form of the name Virche (1333) and occurs only here.
history
Virchow was founded around 1300 under German law. In 1333 Pastor Otto tho Virche wrote the founding deed for the town of Falkenburg (today in Polish: Złocienic). In 1490 the von Borcke family received some shares in Virchow in their feudal letter.
Before 1945 Virchow belonged to the district of Dramburg in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . In 1939 there were 1,391 residents here.
Since 1945, Wierzchowo has been incorporated into the Powiat Drawski in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship (temporarily Köslin Voivodeship ).
Partner municipality
Gmina Wierzchowo has been in partnership with the community of Henstedt-Ulzburg in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) since 2003 .
Parish / Parish
Until 1945 Virchow was a Protestant parish seat, whose parish also included the two subsidiary communities Groß Sabin (now Polish: Żabin) and Klein Sabin (Żabinek). The places Neuhof (Będlino) and Neu Latzig (Nowe Laski) were also parish.
The parish belonged to the church district Tempelburg (Czaplinek) in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania in the church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 there were 3,141 parishioners, of whom 1836 lived in the parish of Virchow, in the subsidiary parishes of Groß Sabin 787 and Klein Sabin 498. The last German pastor was Hans Werner Ohse since 1937 .
There has been a Catholic parish in Wierzchowo since 1946 , which is responsible for three subsidiary parishes : Osiek Drawski ( Wutzig ), Sienica ( Jakobsdorf ) and Żabinek ( Klein Sabin ). The parish belongs to the Deanery Drawsko Pomorskie in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland .
Gmina Wierzchowo
Community structure
The Gmina Wierzchowo includes 19 localities, which are assigned to 11 districts ("Schulzenämtern").
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- Other localities : Bonin ( Bonin ), Danowice ( Dennewitz ), Dębniewice ( Eichenberg ), Knowie ( Kienhof ), Króle ( Kroll ), Radomyśl ( Friedrichshof ), Wierzchówko, Żeńsko ( Schönfeld ).
traffic
Streets
Voivodship Road 177 runs through the municipality from northeast to southwest . She combines it with Czaplinek ( Tempelburg ) in the north and Miroslawiec ( Märkisch Friedland ), Tuczno ( Tütz ) and Człopa ( Schloppe ) in the south and with the - already in the Greater Poland Voivodeship located - Wieleń ( Filehne ).
Moreover, there is a branch road link from the district Sośnica ( Herzberg ) according Złocieniec ( Falkenburg ).
rails
Since 1900 there have been two railway lines in the area of today's Gmina Wierzchowo, both of which have been closed since the end of the 20th century:
- from 1900 to 1996 the railway line from Grzmiąca ( Gramenz ) to Kostrzyn nad Odrą ( Küstrin ) via Złocieniec ( Falkenburg ) and Kalisz Pomorski ( Kallies ), and
- from 1900 to 1992 the small railway line Deutsch Krone –Virchow (Wałcz - Wierzchowo) of the railways of the Deutsch Krone district , later operated by the Polish State Railways .
Attractions
The large brick church in Wierzchowo was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1890 and 1891 according to plans by the architect Ludwig Böttger , after the previous building - a half-timbered church - had been demolished. The altar carved by a monk in 1612 was taken over from the old church, in which the Lord's Supper , the Crucifixion and the Descent from the Cross were designed as a relief in three fields . The list of in the workshop of Zörbiger organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann created organ , for the wood sculptor Gustav Kuntzsch , Wernigerode , the organ case had made was done in 1892 after the complete drying of the masonry. Since 1946 the church has been called Kościół pw. Św. Wojciecha .
Personalities
- Lydia Kath (* 1906, in Virchow), writer
- Hans-Jürgen Schultz (* 1935 in Virchow), geographer and politician
- Heinz Draheim (1915–2012, * in Żeńsko), geodesist and long-time rector of the University of Karlsruhe.
literature
- Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .
- 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Ludwig Böttger (* 27.09.1845 in Könnern , † 04.06.1894) was a German architect and construction clerk .
- ↑ Ludwig Böttger: The church in Virchow in Pomerania. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 13th year 1893, No. 2, p. 16 f. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ↑ Opus list of organ building = Institute of Wilhelm Rühlmann, Zörbig: Opus 129 , accessed on 07 April 2020th
- ^ Soproni Múzeum, Sopron ( Hungary ), Inventory No. P. 2425 E 251 ( Storno Könyvtár): Gustav Kuntzsch folder , not paged .
- ↑ The history of the parish church in Wierzchowo (Virchow) , accessed on January 14, 2020.
Urban and rural parishes: Czaplinek (Tempelburg) | Drawsko Pomorskie (Dramburg) | Kalisz Pomorski (Kallies) | Złocieniec (Falkenburg)
Rural municipality: Wierzchowo (Virchow)