Zdroje (Szczecin)

Zdroje
	Zdroje
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
District of:	Szczecin
Geographic location :	53 ° 23 '  N , 14 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '0 "  N , 14 ° 38' 0"  E
Residents :
Economy and Transport
Street :	Autostrada A6
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów

Zdroje ( German Finkenwalde ) is a southeastern suburb of Stettin on the eastern arm of the lower Oder . The place is at the Szczeciński Park Krajobrazowy "Puszcza Bukowa" at the Buchheide Landscape Protection Park .

The district borders on the municipality of Stare Czarnowo (Neumark) in the south , the border runs along the Autostrada A6 motorway .

history

Finkenwalde was founded in 1750. He belonged to the Randow district in Pomerania in the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1821 Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later King Wilhelm IV.) Visited the place.

In Finkenwalde, excursion restaurants and a lookout tower for foreign guests were built in the 19th century. In 1882 a train station was built on the route to Altdamm . During this time, the large Portland Cement Factory Stern was built at Langen Strasse 120. From 1905 to 1913, the organ builder Felix Grüneberg built a new organ building factory with a production hall and several workshops that employed up to 65 people.

In 1935 the Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened a seminary of the Confessing Church. This was closed again in 1937 because of his critical stance on the Nazi regime.

In 1936 another train station was built in Buchheide. In 1939 the community of Finkenwalde was incorporated into Stettin with Augusthof, Katharinenhof and eight other places to live.

In 1945 the place became part of Poland and has been called Zdroje ever since . In the 1960s, the Zaborsko (Buchheide) station was demolished and a new Zdroje station was built 800 meters away.

Sights and culture

Holy Spirit Church

• Holy Spirit Church, consecrated in 1893, Roman Catholic parish church since 1945
• Buchheide landscape protection park
• Garden of Tranquility and Meditation (Ogród ciszy i medytacji Dietricha Bonhoeffera), on the site of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's former Protestant seminary from 1935 to 1937
• Villa of the organ builder Felix Grüneberg, built in 1910, moved 45 meters in 2014
• Prince's oak , planted in 1821 for the visit of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm

Sons and daughters of the place

• Friedrich Stephany (1830–1912), German journalist, correspondent to Theodor Fontanes
• Karl Berg (1868–1936), German forensic doctor
• Hans Pagenkopf (1901–1983), German economist and local politician
• Klaus Dylewski (1916–2012), German SS Oberscharführer and member of the camp Gestapo in Auschwitz

Web links

Commons : Zdroje (Szczecin)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Szczecin Landscape Protection Park Buchheide

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of Zdroje / Finkenwalde by Krzysztof Sawicki, with historical photos and some inaccuracies (Polish)
2. ↑ Finkenwalde municipality with administrative structure
3. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )