Parchowo
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Parchowo [parˈxɔvɔ] is a village in Gmina Parchowo, Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north-east of Bytów and 65 km (40 mi) south-west of Gdańsk (capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship).
Parchowo is the seat of the Gmina Parchowo.
History
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The oldest known mention of Parchowo comes a document of Wolimir, Bishop of Kuyavia from 1253.[1] Parchowo was the seat of local royal starosts from 1663 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Kingdom of Prussia.[1] The village was subject to Germanisation policies and many Kashubian families from Parchowo emigrated to America (see Kashubian diaspora).
After Poland regained independence after World War I in 1918, the village was restored to Poland. During the German occupation (World War II), in September 1939, the Einsatzkommando 16 murdered the local Polish priest Sylwester Frost as part of a massacre of Polish priests in the forest near Kartuzy (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2] Also during the occupation, the historic Neptune's Fountain from Gdańsk was hidden in the village.[3] After the war the village was restored to Poland.
From 1975 to 1998 the village was located in the Słupsk Voivodeship.
Transport
Parchowo lies along the voivodeship road .
Notable people
- Wiktor Żywicki [pl] (1893–1981), Polish soldier, recipient of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Natalia Szroeder (born 1995), Polish singer
References
- ^ a b Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Vol. VII, Warsaw, 1886, p. 862 (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 107 (in Polish)
- ^ "Fontanna Neptuna". Info Gdańsk (in Polish). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
External links
- "GUS (Central Statistical Office)" (in Polish).
- Map of the Gmina Parchowo
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