Tychowo - a city in the north Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Białogard County, headquarters Tychowo commune. Located on the border Drawskie Lake District and Of the Białogard Plainin the drainage basin Leaflets.
Geographic coordinates: 53 ° 55′42 ″ N 16 ° 15′29 ″ E
In the years 1975-1998 Tychowo was a village belonging to the Koszalin Province.
The town on the basis of an oval village, next to the railway line No. 404 Szczecinek - Kolobrzeg, approx. 22 km from Białogard, approx. 35 km from Koszalin, approx. 26 km from Połczyna-Zdrój and approx. 26 km from Bobolic, at the intersection of the provincial road No. 167 with the provincial road No. 169.
The status of the city of Tychowo was obtained on January 1, 2010 by the Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of July 28, 2009.
According to the data of the Municipal Office, as of December 31, 2012, the city had 2,456 inhabitants and the area of the city was 4.10 km². The city, within its administrative borders, consists of ten separate fragments, in addition, there is an exclave of the rural part of the Tychowo commune in its area - this is the only case in Poland that is divided into so many parts of one administrative unit.
On the main street there are tenement houses from the nineteenth century. The first mentions appear in documents from the mid-thirteenth century, it is a place of Slavic, early medieval origin. Initially, it was a knight's property belonging to two families: the old Pomeranian family Kleszczów, Germanized to von Kleist, mentioned in 1477) and partially to the von Versen family (mentioned in 1523). With time, von Kleist became the sole owners of the Tychowo estate. At the beginning of the 19th century, the property passed into other hands, and then it was bought by representatives of another line of the von Kleist family, named von Kleist-Retzow. The von Kleist-Retzow family owned the property until the end World War II. At that time, Tychowo had about 2,000 inhabitants.
After the war, the property was nationalized and became the seat of the State Agricultural Farm (PGR). In the 1970s, the palace of the von Kleist family, which survived the war and was devastated in the 1950s and early 1960s, was demolished.
According to the registry National Heritage Institute the list of monuments includes:
- Roman-Catholic parish church of Our Lady, Help of Christians, brick and half-timbered church from the 15th century, rebuilt in the 19th century. The oldest church in the commune. A brick church made of field stone, in the 18th century the nave was extended with a half-timbered structure. Probably funded by two families: von Kleist and von Versen. In the half-timbered tower from 1830, at the top a bell from the 16th century, and at the bottom a wooden altar with cabinets. A triptych made of wood, in predella the coat of arms of the von Kleist family. The altar was moved in 1976 from the branch church in Stary Dębno. On the south wall hangs a Baroque crucifix from the 18th century, made by an unknown folk sculptor. In the side chapel there is a large elliptical tombstone of Elizabeth Zeidler from 1679, made of wood and painted with tempera paints. The organ was made in 1936 by the company "Reinhold Heinze Kołobrzeg - Stralsund", rebuilt in 1969.
There are about 8 coffins in the crypt, but there is no documentation describing who is buried in them. The entrance to the crypt is bricked up.
Two nature monuments by the church small-leaved linden trees with a circumference of 410 cm and 340 cm.
- a palace park from the second half of the 18th century, modernized in the 19th century. The area of 13.7 hectares covers about 2,300 trees, most of them aged 60-100. Several monumental trees are also registered, the age of deciduous trees is estimated from 150 to 180 years, but there is also a 300-year-old linden, and the age of conifers from 110 to 130 years. Natural tree clusters of native species are enriched with trees of exotic origin, the most interesting of which are: American bird cherry, mud oak, Hungarian oak and pedunculate oak, one-color fir, Caucasian fir, Veitch fir, silver maple, Turkish hazel, Crimean linden, silver linden and tree magnolia. There is a lovely island on the pond.
- Down Trzebiszyn runs the alley lime tree 1.5 km long.
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- At the cemetery there is a natural monument, the largest erratic boulder in Poland and the second in Europe "Trygław", with dimensions: circumference - 44 m, height above the ground - 3.8 m, underground approx. 4 m; length 13.7 m, width 9.3 m, volume approx. 700 m³, the mass of this boulder is estimated at over 1650 tons. At the top, there is a cross from 1874 with a figure of Christ cast in Berlin. Since 1954, it has been under legal protection as an inanimate nature monument.
On November 1, each year, the boulder is used as a field altar during a mass in the cemetery.
I strongly encourage you to get to know the greatest peculiarity of Western Pomerania - the monument of inanimate nature shrouded in numerous legends, the largest erratic boulder in Poland.
Faded traces of an inscription on the stone. In two places, the 'tapped' boulder makes a hollow sound, which suggests that it is 'empty' inside. It is covered with mosses and lichens.
In distant times, this boulder was a place of worship of pagan Slavs [according to other sources of Wielet] throughout Western Pomerania and Połabie, even in the 12th century. right in Tychów. Trygław was presented in the form of a statue with three heads, which symbolized the deity's power over heaven, earth and the underworld. Another image of Trygław is a three-faced deity looking at three sides of the world (as opposed to Światowid looking at four directions). There are many legends associated with this boulder.
There is a kindergarten, elementary school, and Gymnasium in Tychów. John Paul II and the Team of Upper Secondary Schools for them. prof. Jan Radomski, Public Library for them. Lucjan Szenwald, sports hall, multifunctional sports ground with artificial turf next to the Upper Secondary School Complex, "Orlik" sports ground, Municipal Cultural Center with a 300-seat auditorium.
The People's Sports Team in the city is called "Głaz" Tychowo, belonging to the Inter-Enterprise Commune LKS, established in 1946, it is the oldest in the commune.
The seat of the Tychowo Forest Inspectorate.
Website: http://www.tychowo.pl/
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