Budzistowo (german: Altstadt) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Kołobrzeg __NOTOC__ Gmina Kołobrzeg is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Kołobrzeg, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. Th ...

, within

Kołobrzeg County __NOTOC__ Kołobrzeg County ( pl, powiat kołobrzeski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a resu ...

West Pomeranian Voivodeship The West Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as the West Pomerania Province, is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals 22 892.48 km² (8,838.84 sq mi), and in 2021, it was ...

, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Kołobrzeg and north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. From the 9th century to 1255, modern Budzistowo was the site of ''Salsa Cholbergensis'', a Slavic Pomeranian burgh with a suburbium, located within medieval Poland. This settlement was built as the new center of the local subtribe after the southward emporium at Bardy-Świelubie was abandoned. St. John's church dates from this era, founded in the course of the

conversion of Pomerania Medieval Pomerania was converted from Slavic paganism to Christianity by Otto von Bamberg in 1124 and 1128 (Duchy of Pomerania), and in 1168 by Absalon (Principality of Rügen). Earlier attempts at Christianization, undertaken since the 10th ce ...

. The settlement was turned into a village when Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) was founded upstream the

Parsęta Parsęta (; german: Persante ) is a river in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (''Zachodniopomorskie'') of north-western Poland, with a length of and a basin area of .Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

in the 18th century, and from 1871 to 1945 was part of

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. For the history of the region, see

History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Po ...

. The village has a population of 779 (as of 2009).

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