Strzekęcino

Strzekęcino ( German Streckenthin ) is a town in the rural community Świeszyno ( Schwessin ) in the powiat Koszaliński the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

The village is located two kilometers south of Świeszyno and eleven kilometers from Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in Pomerania.

History

In 1170 the village was mentioned in his then Wendish names Strigotine as one of the eleven founding villages of the later monastery Buckow, ten of which were deserted and were uninhabited. As a result of previous wars and the village was then Strigotine decades without form, and was awakened only after the settlement of German colonists by the monastery in the first quarter of the 13th century back to life and managed.

Later Streckenthin was one of the most important outworks the area and was the property of the Junker family of Kameke. Internationally known Streckenthin was a center of potato farming in the first half of the 20th century. The squire of Kameke Kartz - Streckenthin taught on the estates of his family a potato farm, were supplied from which significant temporary parts of the potato growers of the former German Reich with seed. As a result, a variety of other companies in the potato breeding to Streckenthin settled. 1926 was the area as one of the greatest Saatzuchtwirtschaften world. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Koszalin in the Prussian province of Pomerania.

Culture and sights

In Strzekęcino is the Amber Palace ( pl. Bursztynowy Pałac ), which was built in the years 1899-1901 in the style of the Belle Époque castle of the family of Kameke. The building has been a hotel since 1994.