Wierzchowo (Szczecinek)

Wierzchowo
	Wierzchowo
	Wierzchowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Szczecinek
Gmina :	Gmina Szczecinek
Geographic location :	53 ° 52 ' N , 16 ° 37' E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '42 " N , 16 ° 36' 36" E
Residents :
Postal code :	78-411
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 11 : Kołobrzeg - Bytom
	Wierzchowo → Biały Bór
	Wierzchowo → Iwin
Rail route :	Railway Szczecinek – Kołobrzeg; Railway station: Iwin
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów
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Wierzchowo (German Wurchow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community of Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) in the Powiat Szczecinecki ( Neustettin district ).

Geographical location

Wierzchowo is located on the west bank of the Jezioro Wierzchowo (Virchowsee) and runs through the busy Polish state road 11 , which leads from Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) on the Baltic Sea via Posen to Bytom ( Bytom ) in Upper Silesia (it was the German Reichsstrasse between Kolberg and Kolmar before 1945 160 ). It is 17 kilometers to the district town and the center of the Szczecinek municipality in the south, and 10 kilometers to Bobolice (Bublitz) , the nearest town in the north. The small town of Biały Bór (Baldenburg) in the east can be reached in 17 kilometers.

There is no direct rail connection. The nearest train station is Iwin (Elfenbusch) on the Szczecinek – Kołobrzeg railway line .

history

In Wurchow there was a castle which had to defend a trade route running along the Pomeranian border from the Baltic Sea to Poland; At the exit to Bublitz there was still the remnant of a bailey; For a long time (until 1892) the estate belonged to the extensive possession of the von Glasenapp family , who had also built a 17th century mansion here.

In 1900 the community Wurchow had 535 inhabitants, in addition there were the manor districts Wurchow A with 530 and Wurchow B with 175 inhabitants. In 1929 the manor districts were dissolved and they were incorporated into the municipality.

In 1925 Wurchow registered 927 inhabitants, the number of which increased to 1116 in 1939 and 1246 in 1939.

Before 1945 Wurchow belonged to the district of Neustettin in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . It formed an independent administrative district, was the parish village of a Protestant parish and the seat of a registry office . The competent district court was that in Neustettin . In addition to the village of Wurchow, the municipality of Wurchow included the residential areas Biall , Grünhof, Neu Quakow , Peterkau , Schootkrug , Schwinarge , Wilhelmshöh and Wurchow brickworks .

The place now called "Wierzchowo" has belonged to Poland since 1945 and is now part of Gmina Szczecinek in the Powiat Szczecinecki of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . The place name Wierzchowo is more common in Poland, and six kilometers further east is the village of Stare Wierzchowo (Sassenburg) , with which it is often confused.

church

The church in Wierzchowo (Wurchow)

Parish / Parish

Until 1945, the population of Wurchow was predominantly of Protestant denomination. The place was the parish seat of the parish Wurchow, which also included the churches in Sassenburg (now in Polish: Stare Wierzchowo) and Grumsdorf (Grąbczyn), the preaching offices in Bernsdorf (Krągłe) and Quarkowo (Kwakowo) and seven other localities.

The parish Wurchow was in the parish of Bublitz ( Bobolice ) in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 there were a total of 2,493 parishioners, 1,486 of whom lived in the Wurchow parish. The church patronage was incumbent on the parish council with the participation of the local manor owners, including the von Wedemeier family in Buchwald (Trzebiechowo) for Wurchow.

Today Wierzchowo is the seat of a Catholic parish. The branch churches Kusowo (Küssow) and Trzebiechowo (Buchwald) belong to it . The parish of Wierzchowo is in the dean's office Bobolice (Bublitz) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The church is now called Kościół pw.Wniebowzięcia Najświętsej Maryi Panny (Assumption) .

Pastor 1590–1945

From the Reformation to 1945, 13 evangelical clergy were in office in Wurchow:

Joachim Moltzahn, 1590–1591
Joachim Mylich
Paul Rasch, 1691–1707
Johann Reineck, 1708-1710
Johann Christian Richter, 1710–1715
Martin Gotthard Erberhardi, 1716–1730
Peter Georg König, 1731–1774

Joachim Friedrich König (son of the previous one), 1774–1778
Karl Wilhelm Witte, 1779–1814
Johann Ludwig Hanisch, 1816–1857
Karl Gottlieb Theodor Splittgerber, 1857–1887
Wilhelm Ludwig Otto Georg Staemmler, 1888–?
August Jeschke, 1921–1945

Sons and daughters of the place

Erdmann von Glasenapp (1660–1721), Prussian major general and dean of the cathedral chapter in Cammin
Caspar Otto von Glasenapp (1664–1747), Prussian Field Marshal General and Governor of Berlin
Maximilian von Versen (1833-1893), Prussian cavalry general and adjutant general of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

literature

Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, pp. 422-423.
Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2, Stettin 1912.

Footnotes

^ Community Wurchow in the Pomeranian information system.

[1] Community Wurchow in the Pomeranian information system.