Parchowo
Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 54°12′23″N 17°40′05″E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
County | Bytów |
Gmina | Parchowo |
First mentioned | 1253 |
Population | 1,019 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Parchowo is the seat of the Gmina Parchowo.
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.
Parchowo lies along the voivodeship road .
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