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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Parchowo
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type = &nbsp;
| image_skyline = Parchowo church.jpg
| image_caption = Saint Nicholas church in Parchowo
| image_flag =
| image_shield = POL gmina Parchowo COA.svg
| image_map =
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Pomeranian Voivodeship|name=Pomeranian}}
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties of Poland|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bytów County|Bytów]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Parchowo|Parchowo]]
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date = 1253
| coordinates = {{coord|54|12|23|N|17|40|05|E|region:PL|display=it}}
| elevation_m =
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| population_total = 1019
| website =
}}
'''Parchowo''' {{IPAc-pl|p|a|r|'|h|o|w|o}} is a [[village]] in [[Gmina Parchowo]], [[Bytów County]], [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland. It lies approximately {{convert|12|km|mi|0}} north-east of [[Bytów]] and {{convert|65|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of [[Gdańsk]] (capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship).
Parchowo is the seat of the [[Gmina Parchowo]].
==History==
[[File:Parchowo, DPS.jpg|thumb|left|Nursing home in Parchowo]]
The oldest known mention of Parchowo comes a document of Wolimir, Bishop of [[Kuyavia]] from 1253.<ref name=sgk>''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Vol. VII, Warsaw, 1886, p. 862 (in Polish)</ref> Parchowo was the seat of local royal [[starost]]s from 1663 until the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772, when it was annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia]].<ref name=sgk/> The village was subject to [[Germanisation]] policies and many Kashubian families from Parchowo emigrated to America (see ''[[Kashubian diaspora]]'').
After Poland regained independence after [[World War I]] in 1918, the village was restored to Poland. During the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German occupation]] ([[World War II]]), in September 1939, the ''[[Einsatzkommando]]'' 16 murdered the local Polish priest Sylwester Frost as part of a massacre of Polish priests in the forest near [[Kartuzy]] (see ''[[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation]]'').<ref>Maria Wardzyńska, ''Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion'', [[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]], Warsaw, 2009, p. 107 (in Polish)</ref> Also during the occupation, the historic [[Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk|Neptune's Fountain]] from [[Gdańsk]] was hidden in the village.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://infogdansk.pl/fontanna-neptuna/|title=Fontanna Neptuna|website=Info Gdańsk|date=March 2016 |accessdate=22 March 2020|language=Polish}}</ref> After the war the village was restored to Poland.
From 1975 to 1998 the village was located in the [[Słupsk Voivodeship]].
==Transport==
Parchowo lies along the [[voivodeship road]] [[File:Tabliczka DW228.svg|25px]].
==Notable people==
* {{interlanguage link|Wiktor Żywicki|pl|display=1}} (1893–1981), Polish soldier, recipient of the Silver Cross of the [[Virtuti Militari]]
* [[Natalia Szroeder]] (born 1995), Polish singer
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{cite web
| url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/
| title=GUS (Central Statistical Office)
| language=Polish}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090221095129/http://www.parchowo.pl/mapa Map of the Gmina Parchowo]
{{Gmina Parchowo}}
[[Category:Villages in Bytów County|Parchowo]]