ARCHIVES OF THE PARISH IN WAŁCZ INVENTORY

Abstract

The article presents the preserved archives of the Catholic parish of St nicholas in Wałcz. The town was founded at the beginning of the 14th century. At the same time, the first church was erected. until the Reformation, the parish in Wałcz belonged to the Archdeaconry of Zanoteć in the Diocese of Poznań. At the beginning of the 17th century, the church was returned to Catholics, and the parish became part of the newly established Czarnków deanery. In 1772, the Wałcz land was incorporated into the Prussian state. Since the reactivation of the Wałcz deanery at the end of the 18th century, it has remained a part of it, 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 were transferred to the diocesan archives in Koszalin. There they were developed and inventoried, divided into series with new reference numbers (1–327). The rich historical material can be used for more in-depth specialist research.