{{Infobox settlement | name = Parchowo | settlement_type = Village | total_type = | 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 = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Pomeranian Voivodeship|name=Pomeranian}} | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Bytów | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Parchowo | established_title = First mentioned | established_date = 1253 | coordinates = {{coord|54|12|23|N|17|40|05|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}} | elevation_m = | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = 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.{{TERYT}}
Parchowo is the seat of the Gmina Parchowo.
==History== 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 starosts 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 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'', IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 107 (in Polish)</ref> Also during the occupation, the historic 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 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
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090221095129/http://www.parchowo.pl/mapa Map of the Gmina Parchowo]
{{Gmina Parchowo}}
Category:Villages in Bytów County