(Release 1 / June 17th 1998) 

1315	Site first mentioned as Tuchom in the charter of the country Tuchen
        to the Swenzonian knight Kasimir von Tuchom. 

1385    The area acquires by the Teutonic Order. 
        Designation of the place as Cotzmersch. 

1400 	The curator of Buetow, Jacob von Reinach, grants to the resident Staneken 
        the office of the village mayor. 

1560 	The paper mill (later: Upper mill) is set up besides the already existing 
        grain mill. In the chronicles the name Gross Tuchen appears. The majority 
        of the inhabitants convert to Protestantism in the middle of the 
        sixteenth century. 

1637    The Land of Buetow comes as "vacant fief" following the death of the 
        heirless Pomeranian duke Bogislaw XIV under sovereignty of Poland for 
        twenty years.

1657	Prussia as an ally of Poland in the war between Poland and Sweden gains 
        Buetow and Lauenburg as "hereditary fief"

1670    The first evangelical church is completed. 

1674	The village is destroyed by a great fire almost completely; 1695 as well. 

1710	The school in Gross Tuchen is first mentioned. There was  a school in Buetow 
        already in 1399. 

1772 	New settlers stimulate the growth of the village, resulting in large changes. 

1780	There are already 2 churches, 2 grain mills, 1 paper mill, 1 inn and 1 forge. 

1810	Gross Tuchen has 289 inhabitants, including 13 Catholics. 

1855	Gross Tuchen has 715 inhabitants, including 59 Catholics. 

1857	The road Buetow - Rummelsburg is built. 

1886 - 
1889	the evangelical church is built. With 1000 seats this New Gothic building is 
        one of the largest churches in the district Buetow. 

1905	Gross Tuchen has 880 inhabitants, including 97 Catholics. The catholic 
        St.Michaelis church is built. 

1909    The railroad line from Buetow to Rummelsburg is opened to traffic.

1912 	The main road Gross Tuchen - Zemmen is built. 

1920 	The road junctions to Moddrow, Klein Tuchen and Pyaschen are built. 

1925 	Gross Tuchen have 838 inhabitants, including 135 Catholics. 

1933 	Gross Tuchen count now 881 inhabitants (including 145 Catholics). Several
	single family homes for large families and 4 customs offices are built. 
        A modern sports field is set up. 

1938	Gross Tuchen count already 920 inhabitants. The number of the 
        Catholics decreases to 135. 

1939	Gross Tuchen have 1002 inhabitants. World War II begins. 

1945    January 24th : The rest of men fit for military service are called up into 
        the Volkssturm [auxiliary forces to support the German Army] and almost 
        untrained cast to the front line near Reckow and Schlawe. 
        Since mid-February Russian fighter aircraft assaulted the unsheltered 
        village. The first victims are children. 
        March 2nd : The German Army takes over the village and orders the evacuation 
        by 9 p.m. on evening. After all-day heavy air raids the population leaves 
        the village in small groups disoriented and seized with panic. 
        March 4th : The 70 Soviet army takes the offensive from the line of depart 
        of Reckow and Pyaschen circumventing the village across the Upper Mill, 
        Gross Massowitz and Wiesenthal. After 3 days of fierce actions the 
        fight is over. The soil around Gross Tuchen is covered with hundreds of 
        Russian and German soldiers killed in action.
        March 7th 1945: The German history of Gross Tuchen has come to an end.
        A part of the fled inhabitants return. The village is taken over by Polish 
        administration. The German inhabitants are without rights exposed to force 
        and humiliations. They are increasingly expropriated and expelled. 
        Poles and Ukrainians take possession of the German property, farms, houses 
        and buildings. 

1946	By December most German inhabitants are expelled. 
        Now the village is called Tuchomie. 
        The use of the German language is not allowed any longer.

1958 	Some Germans from East Germany are allowed to visit the village.

1975 	Now, also western citizen are allowed to visit Gross Tuchen again. 

1990 	After the crash of the Communist regime a new conception of history 
        is adopted.

1997    On the former evangelical cemetery a memorial stone dedicated to those 
        Germans of Gross Tuchen who died in the home village is unveiled during 
        a solemn ceremony by the former expelled Germans of the village in the 
        presence of the Polish mayor, Polish inhabitants and the German minority. 
        In Tuchomie a permanent meeting center for Germans and Poles is set up 
        in the former school house of the village.