Przęsocin (http://lazowski.szczecin.art.pl/police/fotografie/przesocin-uk.htm Phtotos and history of Policehttp://www.vorfahreninfo.de/Bilder/Region.jpg Old Map of Stettin Area) is a village in

Police County __NOTOC__ Police County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Polish-Germany, German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the ...

in the

West Pomeranian Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people. It was established on 1 Janua ...

in north-eastern

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, south of the town of

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History

In the 10th century, the area became part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler

Mieszko I Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was Duchy of Poland (966–1025), Duke of Poland from 960 until his death in 992 and the founder of the first unified History of Poland, Polish state, the Civitas Schinesghe. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was t ...

. Following the fragmentation of Poland into smaller duchies, it was part of the

Duchy of Pomerania The Duchy of Pomerania (; ; Latin: ''Ducatus Pomeraniae'') was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (''Griffins''). The country existed in the Middle Ages between years 1121–11 ...

, and later on also passed to

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and

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. It became again part of Poland in 1945, following the defeat of

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Notable residents

* Artur Bahr (1920-1944), officer

Tourism

Church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

from 15th century built with

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

* PTTK path (red footpath "Ścieżkami Dzików") in an area of Przęsocin in Wkrzanska Forest

Communication

*bus lines to Police, Poland: **101 to Police, Poland:

Mścięcino Mścięcino - a district of Police, Poland, town in the Pomerania Region. Communication *Roads: **from the centre of Police to Przęsocin and Szczecin *Main streets in a district: **ul. Asfaltowa **ul. Cisowa *Szczecin - Police - Trzebież ...

, the Old Town and Jasienica **107 to Police, Poland:

, the Old Town and the New Town *bus lines to

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

: **101 to

: Szczecin-Bukowo, Szczecin-Żelechowa, Centrum **107 to

: Szczecin-Bukowo, Szczecin-Żelechowa, Centrum

References

Villages in Police County {{Police-geo-stub