PARAFIA PW. ŚW. JANA CHRZCICIELA W TRZCIANCE I JEJ KSIĘGI METRYKALNE DO 1945 ROKU
PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST IN TRZCIANKA AND ITS RECORD BOOKS UP TO 1945

Summary/Abstract: The article broadens the current knowledge about the history of the parish of St John the Baptist in Trzcianka before 1945. It has been established that it certainly existed in the early 17th century and was possibly established as early as the 16th century. Until the second half of the 18th century, it operated as the Holy Trinity Parish, then its name was changed to the current one. Over more than three centuries, the churches and parish buildings fell victim to several fires and were rebuilt. The first two churches (before 1628 and 1717) were wooden, while the next two (1835 and 1917) were made of brick. The parish has also changed state and church administrative affiliations many times. The oldest preserved parish books date back to 1730 and are stored in the Archive of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg Diocese in Koszalin. By searching 17th- and 18th-century parish visitation records in the Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań, we were able to partially reconstruct information about unpreserved parish books that may have been burnt in the Trzcianka parsonage fire in 1730. The search in the state archives also made it possible to locate duplicates of the 19th-century record books of Trzcianka.

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