Swochowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Swochowo ( German Schwuchow ) is a village near the city of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical location
Swochowo located in Pomerania, about five kilometers north-east of Slupsk and two kilometers southwest of the village Lubuczewo ( Lübzow ), on the edge of the broad glacial valley of Słupia ( Stolpe ).
History
The village shows the historical village form of a green village. The former manor Schwuchow was in earlier times a fief of the Mitzlaff family. To 1784 there were in Schwuchow one large and one small Vorwerk, a Kossäten, a schoolmaster, on the field mark of the village, the Vorwerk Seddin, in which two Kossäten and a Büdner were called an inn, Uhlenkrug, and a total of twenty households. In 1804 the estate was owned by the family Stojentin.
1830 acquired Henriette Seyffert, daughter of stumbling Mayor Arnold Seyffert, the good with the Vorwerk Seddin. Through the marriage of their daughter with the composer and pianist Wilhelm Steifensand both property came into his family. Wilhelm Steifensand managed the Vorwerk Seddin. His son Georg Stiff sand took over in 1875 Schwuchow by his grandmother and 1883 Seddin from his mother. His son Frederick Stiff sand, co-founder of the East Pomeranian vehicle and industrial corporation in Stolp, was from 1926, the last owner of the estate Shukhov.
Before 1945 Schwuchow belonged to the rural municipality in the district of Stolp Schmaatz, administrative region of Pomerania, the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Schwuchow was occupied towards the end of the Second World War on 8 March 1945 by the Red Army and made soon, along with all Pomerania under Polish administration. In June 1945, the first Poles arrived in the village. The villagers have been displaced. Schwuchow was renamed Swochowo.
In 2008 the village had 106 inhabitants.