Wierzchowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Wierzchowo ( German Firchau, Pomerania; Kashubian Wierzchowo ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the Gmina Człuchów ( Pomerania ) in the powiat Człuchowski ( Pomerania ).
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- 4.2 Evangelical
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Geographical location
Wierzchowo located in the southwest of the Pomeranian Voivodeship along Route 25 from Bobolice ( Bublitz ) about Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) to Oleśnica (Oels ) in Silesia. On a side road of the village with Mosiny ( Mossin ) and can be found here after the voivodeship 188 of Człuchów about Debrzno ( Prussian Friedland ) by Lipka ( Linde ), which is already in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
The ( Station Firchau ) was 1920-1939 German frontier station to the Polish Corridor. He is with the current name Wierzchowo Człuchowskie at the distance of Kostrzyn nad Odra ( Kuestrin ) to Tczew ( Dirschau ), who wrote as Prussian Eastern Railway once as a connection from Berlin to Königsberg ( Prussia) history. The station is located outside the village, the houses in its vicinity form the district Wierzchowo - Dworzec.
The eastern city limits is now the city's border with powiat Sępoleński ( circle Zempelburg ) in the Kujawsko - Pomerania.
Neighboring towns of Wierzchowo are: Jęczniki Wielki (Great Jenznick ) in the Northeast, Dębnica ( Damnitz ) in the northwest, Płonica Wierzchowo ( Platendienst ) in the southwest and Bukowo (Buchholz ) in the southeast.
Place name
Wierzchowo comes in Poland as a place name frequently, as well as the name of a lake. The German place name Firchau is found only here.
History
In Firchau is a very old settlement site. So you could dig up a late Bronze Age urn field of 200 by 150 meters.
1323 was the commander Dietrich von Lichtenau to colonize the intention Firchau, but they were in favor of Mankau (now Polish: Makowo ) on. Henry of Grobitz finally turned a 1372 hand hard for Firchau from.
Firchau - a small Angersdorf - belonged to the district of Pomerania before 1945 in the district boundary Posen- West Prussia in the Prussian province of Pomerania. 1939 was one of the place 618 residents in 145 households. The local area at that time was 1466 hectares.
Today Wierzchowo part of the powiat Człuchowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). From 1945 to 1954, the village was the seat of an independent Gmina Wierzchowo. Here now live 331 inhabitants.
Local structure to 1945
The municipality Firchau belonged to 1945 the residential places Bruchmühle, station Firchau ( Wierzchowo - Dworzec ) and Manukau ( Makowo ).
Church
Catholic
The vast majority of the population is Catholic Wierzchowo and it was already before 1945 in Firchau. 1546 the former St. Mary's Church was built, however, was demolished in 1928 to 1930 to make a new place.
Today Wierzchowo is a parish in the deanery Człuchów ( Pomerania ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. The church bears the name Kościół MB Szkaplerznej.
Protestant
The Protestant inhabitants possessed before 1945 a small church in the district Firchau station. The village belonged to the parish church in Grunau (now Polish: Stare Gronowo ), which belonged also the places Battrow ( Batorowo ) and Marie Felde ( Myśligoszcz ). The parish was incorporated into the Church of Pomerania ( Złotów ) of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German clergyman before 1945 was pastor Theodor Haacke.
Today, the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland the numerically few evangelical church members of Wierzchowo are incorporated into the parish Pila ( Pila ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska.