Święciechowo
Święciechowo ( German Grunhof ) is a dwelling-place in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. The place was in the 19th century under Ludolph of Beckedorff a center of the Roman Catholic Diaspora in Pomerania.
Geographical location
The place is located in Eastern Pomerania, about five kilometers south of the city Resko (rain forest ), with which it is connected by a highway. The immediate neighboring towns are in the north Ługowina ( Lowin ) and to the east Dorowo ( Dorow ). To the west and south is the forest area Raddower Heath.
History
The place came into the light of a further public after in 1827 Ludolph Beckedorff the Good Grunhof acquired. Beckedorff senior Prussian civil servant had been recently General Manager of the University of Berlin, but was converted to Catholicism and was subsequently dismissed from the Prussian civil service. In Grunhof devoted Beckedorff agriculture, he founded in 1831 the rainforests Agricultural Association. In 1840 he was recalled by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in the Prussian civil service, elevated to the peerage and made in 1842 as President of the newly established Prussian state economics college. Becke Dorffs sugar factory in Grunhof annually produced up to 260 tons of sugar, net income was a year in the 1840s, more than 900 dollars.
From 1855 on, let go of Beckedorff in Grunhof build a Catholic church, which was completed in 1859. In 1857 he founded the St. Aloysius pin here, what was the first monastery founded in Pomerania since the Reformation. It was in 1861 occupied by Borromäerinnen from the monastery Trebnitzgrund. The Borromäerinnen taught here an elementary school and an orphanage, from here was also the founding of Catholic children's homes in Stralsund (1862 ) and Stettin ( 1867). 1914 a hospital was set up with the nursing home in Grunhof. In 1927, the Pomeranian Catholic was held in Grunhof.
Before 1945 Grunhof belonged to the rural community Lowin in Regenwalde the Prussian province of Pomerania.
After 1945 came Grunhof how completely Pomerania to Poland. The place was given the Polish name Święciechowo. First, the church and a farm were preserved.