Åšwiecichowo
Świecichowo ( German Schwetzkow, Kashubian Swiécéchòwò ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Świecichowo located in Pomerania, about 20 kilometers northeast of the county town of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in a plane between Stolpe ( Słupia ) and Lupow ( Łupawa ). In the village take two side roads, which Żelkowo (Wendish Silkow ) on the province road 213 Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) or connect from Potegowo ( Pottangow ) about Damno ( dams ) to Świecichowo lead. The nearest train station is five kilometers away: Damnica on the railway line 202 of Stargard in Pomerania to Gdańsk.
History
His historic village form after Schwetzkow was a small village streets. It was an old fief of families Schwetzkow and Stojentin. 1523 Clawes Swetzkow myt Synen brodern tho Schwetzkow is called. Later, the property was passed on to Peter Georg von Kleist.
In the 18th century Schwetzkow changed hands several times owners. Most prominent among these was the Prussian hussars General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling, the Schwetzkow acquired in 1772.
About 1784 Schwetzkow had a Vorwerk, six farmers, and a schoolmaster at a total of 27 fireplaces. After another change of ownership eventually bought Friedrich Karl Holtz Schwetzkow, and in his family it remained until 1945.
By 1945 Schwetzko belonged to the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania. 1910 here were 234 registered inhabitants, whose number rose to 285 to 1933 and 1939, amounted to 271. Schwetzkow was in the official and the civil registry district Hebrondamnitz (now Polish: Damnica ) incorporated and was in the District Court area Stolp.
Towards the end of World War II Schwetzkow was occupied on 8 March 1945 by Russian armored units and infantry and made soon, along with all Pomerania under Polish administration. Then Poland invaded the town and occupied the farms and houses of the inhabitants. The eviction began. 74 expelled from Schwetzkow villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 137 in East Germany.
Schwetzkow was renamed Świecichowo. The village is now a part of Gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). It is the seat of a Schulz office to which also the village Mrówczyno ( Jägerhof ) is connected. The village has about 260 inhabitants.
Church
Before 1945, the majority of the population was Protestant denomination Schwetzkows. The village belonged to the parish of dams (now Polish: Damno ) in the church Stolp - old town in the Province of Pomerania Ostsprengel the Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
Since 1945, the population of Świecichowo is almost exclusively Catholic. The relation of the city to the vicarage Damno ( dams ) is still there, but now belongs to the parish to deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members now belong to a branch church Główczyce the Cross parish in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
In the 1932 stage an elementary school teacher taught 57 school children.