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KICIN
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gm. Ojrzeń, pow. ciechanowski, woj. mazowieckie

The village was founded by Mennonites who were imported by Brunon Kiciński from Eastern Prussia between 1820 and 1842. Ca. 1854, the Baptist community called Odrodzony Zbór (Newborn Church) in Adamów (30 km from Kicin) began to affect the religious life of the Mennonites who inhabited the village. Kicin was visited by two missionaries from Adamów: Peter Ewart and Johan Penner. As a result of their activities, many residents of the village were converted to Baptism.

The first baptism in this rite took place on August 25, 1860. Furthermore, a representative of the Mennonite Brotherly Church (MBG), Fridrich Alf carried out missionary activities in the village from 1860 and some of the village residents also began to join the Mennonite Brotherly Church. As a result of this process, the villagers were divided into three denominations. Initially, the Baptist and MBG churches were not recognized by tsar authorities. For example, the erection of the Kicin church was suspended. Only in 1868, did the tsar government recognize the Baptist sect. However, as a result of introduction of compulsory military service by the authorities, all Mennonites and Mennonite brethren left both Kicin and Wola Wodzyńska and emigrated to Canada or the USA.

Only a few Mennonite families remained in Wola Wodzyńska; however, no Mennonite families remained in Kicin after 1874. In 1883, the village had 26 houses and 310 residents. Its area equaled 556 morga of land. A windmill was located in the village. Military actions that began in 1914 led to displacement of the residents to the Russia's interior. As a result of the front passage, the village practically was completely destroyed.

Few residents returned from exile after the war had ended. In Kicin, Baptists constituted the majority of new residents; only several families belonged to the Evangelical church. In 1929, a Baptist masonry house of prayer was completed. At that time Oskar Krauze was the church's Elder. After WWII, as a result of the Jałta agreement, entire German-speaking population was forced to leave the farms. Their land was given to new settlers.

Kicin is situated near the Sochocin - Ojrzeń road. The cultural landscape and the village itself have been considerably transformed. The following are the last surviving houses associated with the Dutch colonization. The basic architectural documentation has been compiled for these buildings.

Building no. 28 is a brick house, erected ca. 1920; it is part of a four-building homestead with a dispersed building layout. The building is located along a north-south line in the eastern section of the plot. It is made of bricks bonded with cement-lime mortar. The truss-work has a rafter-queen post structure and is covered with a double-pitched roof with ceramic tiles. The house was built on the rectangular plan and has an asymmetric, two-bay, and four-axial layout with two entrances on the western side. The building is in a good condition.

Building no. 29 is a wooden house dating from 1927. Before WWII, it was occupied by the Elder of the Mennonite church. It is situated approx. 100 m from the Ciechanów-Płońsk road, along a north-south line. The building is made of pine wood and has a corner-notched log structure, joined at corners by dovetail halvings with protruding log ends. It has a double-pitched, rafter-queen post roof, which is covered with cement tiles. The interior has a two-bay and three-axial layout. The fire system has been rebuilt and has a brick chimney and tile kitchen stoves. The building is preserved in a good condition.

Building no. 31 is a wooden house, erected ca. 1920. It is situated approx. 30 m from the Sochocin-Ojrzeń road, along a north-south line. The building is made of pine wood and has a corner-notched log structure with dovetail halvings - planked with vertical boards with slats. It has a double-pitched, rafter-collar beam roof, which is covered with asbestos tiles. The interior has a two-bay and two-axial layout. The centrally located fire system includes a kitchen and two heaters. The building is preserved in a good condition.

Building no. 51 is a wood-masonry house and was erected in 1920s. It is part of a three-building homestead with a dispersed building layout. The building is located along an east-west line in the northern part of the plot ca. 100m from the Ciechanów-Płońsk road. The building has a timber frame construction; the walls are partially boarded and plastered.

The truss-work has a rafter-collar beam structure, which is reinforced with queen posts. It has a double-pitched roof covered with ceramic tiles. The house was built on a rectangular plan and has a symmetrical, two-bay, three-axial layout with centrally located brick chimney with a traditional kitchen section. The building is in satisfactory condition (BK - all above objects - Wojciech Marchlewski, 1983).


    
W. Marchlewski, Wola Wodzyńska i Kicin-studium ruralistyczne, Warszawa 1983, mpis w zbiorach Służby Ochrony Zabytków w Ciechanowie;
SGKP, t. IV, 1883, s. 10.


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