Szlachcin , formerly Slachcin (1906-1919) and Adelstätt (1943-1945), is a
village
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in the administrative district of
Gmina Åšroda Wielkopolska, within
Åšroda Wielkopolska County Åšroda is the Polish word for Wednesday. It appears in the names of Polish towns holding Wednesday weekly fairs.
There are two towns in Poland called Åšroda:
* Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska, in south-west Poland (Lower Silesian Voivodeship)
* Åšroda Wielkopols ...
,
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 o ...
, in west-central Poland.
It lies approximately east of
Åšroda Wielkopolska
Środa Wielkopolska (until 1968 ''Środa''; german: Schroda) is a town in western-central Poland, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, about southeast of Poznań, with 22,001 inhabitants (2009). It is the seat of Środa Wielkopolska County ...
and south-east of the regional capital
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...
.
History
The first mention, in which the village name was recorded as Slachcino, dates back to 1380. Later references also appear in records as Slachcin, Slachcino, and Szlachcino.
The earliest known owners of the village were the Szlachciński family, who used the coats of arms
Wczele or
Nowina depending on later
branches
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. They appear in the parish registers of
Nietrzanowo as the owners of Szlachcin,
Olszewo, and two no longer existing villages, Zabrodzie and Chrósty.
In 1850, the Szlachcin estate became the property of the Stablewski family h.
Oksza and remained so until 1939. The thorough reconstruction of the manor building for the Stablewski family, designed by Heliodor Matejko, took place in 1899. It is most likely that there was another manor standing in the place of the current derelict Stablewski manor building. This assumption is supported by the discovery during renovation works in 1910 of a date carved into a beam of the old manor, indicating 1622. This would suggest that the old manor could have still remembered the times when the Szlachciński family lived there.
At the outbreak of the
Second World War
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, the estate covered an area of 612 hectares, with its main facility being a distillery built in the 19th century. After the war, the property was used by the local
Agricultural Production Cooperative, but it has remained inactive since its dissolution.
Notable people
*
Marcin Szlachciński
Marcin Szlachciński ( ''Latin'': ''Martinus Slachcinius''; born: 1511–1512) was a Polish renaissance scholar; Polish, Latin and Ancient Greek translator; poet; philosopher and professor at the Jagiellonian University.
Personal life
SzlachciÅ ...
- Scholar, translator, poet, philosopher and professor at the
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...
.
References
Villages in Åšroda Wielkopolska County
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