Parchowo ( csb, Parchòwò, ger, Parchau) is a village in

Gmina Parchowo __NOTOC__ Gmina Parchowo ( csb, Gmina Parchòwò) is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the village of Parchowo, which lies approximately north-east of Bytów and west ...

, Bytów County,

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pomorskie Region, or Pomerania Province (Polish: ''Województwo pomorskie'' ; ( Kashubian: ''Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò'' ), is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The ...

, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Bytów and south-west of

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

(capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship). Parchowo is the seat of the

. It has a population of 1,019.

History

The oldest known mention of Parchowo comes a document of Wolimir, Bishop of Kuyavia from 1253.''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Tom VII, Warszawa, 1886, p. 862 (in Polish) Parchowo was the seat of local royal

starost The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...

s from 1663 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Kingdom of Prussia. The village was subject to

Germanisation Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, German people, people and German culture, culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationa ...

policies and many Kashubian families from Parchowo emigrated to America (see ''

Kashubian diaspora The Kashubian diaspora resulted from the emigration of Kashubians mainly in two waves occurring in the second half of the 19th century. The majority of Kashubian emigrants settled in the United States; others emigrated to Canada and Brazil. An onlin ...

''). After Poland regained independence after World War I in 1918, the village was restored to Poland. During the

German occupation German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...

( World War II), in September 1939, the ''

Einsatzkommando During World War II, the Nazi German ' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectu ...

'' 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''). Also during the occupation, the historic Neptune's Fountain from

was hidden in the village. 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 Tabliczka DW228

Notable people

* (1893–1981), Polish soldier, recipient of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari * Natalia Szroeder (born 1995), Polish singer

References

External links

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Map of the Gmina Parchowo
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