Stare Czarnowo: History and Cycling
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Stare Czarnowo combines a local history that can be dated with a specifically named cycling route connection. If you are weighing up historical topics and active days, you will find two different starting points for planning your trip: early written records, medieval developments and the history of the church on the one hand, and a 9 km cycling connection between three places on the other. The places and dates can be distinguished chronologically without combining them into a single founding story.
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Early traces of the name and monastic period
The name Cirnowe appears in a document dated to 1179–1181. Stare Czarnowo is also mentioned in 1226: Duke Barnim gave the place to the Cistercians of Kołbacz. The two dates refer to different events. The earlier one concerns the mention of the place name, and the later one the grant. Before 1326, the Cistercians converted Stare Czarnowo into a monastic grange, that is, a monastic estate. This makes it possible to trace the sequence from the early form of the name through the grant to a specific monastic function. The dates should not be combined into a single founding year: they mark a mention, a grant and a later conversion.
Market rights and fair
Around the middle of the 13th century, Stare Czarnowo received market rights; the Latin term for these is forum liberum. The date is deliberately approximate and does not refer to a specific year. The place was also a parish village by the 13th century at the latest. “By the ... at the latest” sets a time limit without specifying an exact beginning. A fair was held on the basis of the market rights, starting on November 11. If that day fell on a Saturday or Sunday, the fair began the following Monday. Thus, an approximate date for the market rights sits alongside a specifically regulated fair date. The fair links the history of the market to a set calendar date and an expressly stated postponement.
The church and cycling route as different travel interests
The first church was built in the southern part of the village at the end of the 12th century. A fire destroyed it in 1531; the church was rebuilt in the 16th century. These dates distinguish the original construction, the destruction and the rebuilding. The fire is dated to a specific year, while the rebuilding is placed within a century. If you view the church’s history chronologically, you should therefore not automatically date the rebuilding to 1531. The history of the church thus adds its own sequence of construction and rebuilding to the earlier events of the name’s first appearance, the grant and the market rights.
A 9 km cycling route connects Stare Czarnowo with Kołbacz and Szczecin. Unlike the historical details, it identifies a route and three places rather than points in time. If cycling is one of your travel interests, the connection gives you a concrete point of reference when choosing a destination. The local history, in turn, offers several clearly distinguishable points of interest for travelers interested in medieval developments. You can therefore consider historical topics and cycling as different focuses for planning your trip.
Discover more destinations: Cedynia, Kolbatz, Nowe Czarnowo, Binowo, Steklno, Weltyn, Widuchowa, Stare Brynki
For the broader travel overview: Greifenhagen.
