Archives of the Parish in Wałcz. Inventory
Abstract
The article presents the preserved archives of the Catholic parish of St Nicholas in Wałcz, Poland. The town was founded at the beginning of the 14th century; the first church was founded at the same time. Until the Reformation, the parish in Wałcz belonged to the Archdeaconry of Zanoteć in the diocese of Poznań. At the beginning of the 16th century, the church was returned to Catholics and the parish became part of the newly established deanery of Czarnków. In 1772, the Wałcz land was incorporated into Prussia. After the reactivation of the Wałcz deanery at the end of the 18th century, it was continuously part of the country, despite the changing political and church realities. The Wałcz region returned to Poland in 1945. The pre-war archives of the parish of St Nicholas was transferred to the diocesan archives in Koszalin. There they were developed, inventoried and divided into series with new reference numbers (1-326). The rich historical material can be used for more in-depth specialised research.
Keywords:
Walcz (Wałcz), St Nicholas parish, church archives, inventory, diocesan archives in KoszalinUniwersytet Szczeciński https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8105-8823
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