Stare Wierzchowo
Stare Wierzchowo ( German Sass Castle ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gmina Szczecinek (Town Pommern ) in the powiat Szczecinecki ( Neustettin ).
Geographical location
On the south bank of the Jezioro Wierzchowo ( Virchowsee ) and on the lower reaches of the Gwda ( Küddow ) located, the village of Stare Wierzchowo surrounding a rural idyllic landscape. A secondary road, the village Wierzchowo ( Wurchow, along Route 11 Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg) - Poznan - Bytom ( Bytom / OS) ) with the small town Bialy Bór ( Baldenburg on the state roads 20 Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) - Gdynia ( Gdynia ) and 25 Bobolice ( Bublitz ) - Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) - Oleśnica (Oels ) ) connects, runs right through the town. The county town of Szczecinek ( Pommern ) is located south and can be reached in 18 miles.
A rail connection does not exist. The nearest train stations are in Bialy Bór ( Baldenburg, 14 km) on the railway line Pila - Ustka and Iwin ( elves bush, 17 km) on the railway line Szczecinek - Kolobrzeg.
History
Sass Petersburg founding year is 1579.
In 1925 the village had 543 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 1933 to 508 in 1939 and was still 484 The place was until 1927 a village in the district Bublitz (now Polish: Bobolice ) in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. On October 1, 1932 Sass castle was outsourced to the district of Koszalin in the county Pommern, through the merger of the circles Bublitz and Koszalin, who belonged to the governmental district boundary Posen- West Prussia from 1939.
Towards the end of World War II Sassenburg beginning in March 1945 was occupied by the Red Army. After the war, Sass castle was as Stare Wierzchowo part of Poland.
Stare Wierzchowo has about 140 inhabitants.
Church
The village church of Sass castle and Stare Wierzchowo dates from the 18th century. In 1928 she underwent a conversion to. The church is now called Kościół pw Matki Boskiej dobrej Rady.
By 1945 - the vast majority of the population was Protestant denomination - was the parish Sassenburg a branch church in the parish Wurchow (now Polish: Wierzchowo ). It belonged to the church district Bublitz ( Bobolice ) Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. In 1940 the community numbered 502 (of 2493 the entire parish ) church members. Last German clergyman was pastor August Jeschke.
Since 1945 lives a majority Catholic population in Stare Wierzchowo. The place is now home to a own parish, to which even the branch communities Kazimierz ( Kasimirshof ) and Spore ( Sparsee ) belong. She is the Dean Bobolice ( Bublitz ) affiliated in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland.