| Parchowo | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bytów |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Parchowo |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1253 |
| Coordinates: | 54.2064°N 17.6681°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 1019 |
Parchowo is a village in Gmina Parchowo, Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 12km (07miles) north-east of Bytów and 650NaN0 south-west of Gdańsk (capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship).
Parchowo is the seat of the Gmina Parchowo.
The oldest known mention of Parchowo comes a document of Wolimir, Bishop of Kuyavia from 1253.[1] 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.[1] 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).[2] Also during the occupation, the historic Neptune's Fountain from Gdańsk was hidden in the village.[3] After the war the village was restored to Poland.
From 1975 to 1998 the village was located in the Słupsk Voivodeship.
Parchowo lies along the voivodeship road .