Stare Drawsko
village of Poland
Stare Drawsko [ˈstarɛ ˈdrafskɔ] (until 1945 Polish: Drahim; German: Alt Draheim) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czaplinek, within Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. The village is prominent as the seat of the historic Starostwo of Draheim.
Geography
The village forms a northwestern outpost of the historic Greater Poland region, where it borders with Pomerania. It lies approximately 7 km (4 mi) north-west of Czaplinek, 28 km (17 mi) east of Drawsko Pomorskie, and 109 km (68 mi) east of the regional capital Szczecin. The village has a population of 140.
History
The 14th century Drahim Castle was a stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller, who controlled the Polish-Pomeranian border region. In 1407 German and Polish robber barons conquered the castle and expelled the knights. The robber barons made the castle the starting point of their brigandage, until the burghers of Drawsko defeated them in 1422. In 1438 the Teutonic Knights arranged it so that Poland could take control of the region, which it reorganised as the Starostwo Drahimskie, with Drahim as its capital, within the Poznań Voivodeship and Greater Poland Province.
In 1657 King John II Casimir of Poland pawned this Poznanian starostwo, including Drahim, to the "Great Elector" Frederick William of Brandenburg in return for a credit by the Treaty of Bromberg.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village of Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q188301. VIAF identifies the subject as 234842787. Authority coordinates are 53.603, 16.194. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945, 1407, 1422 and 1438.
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