Łęgi (Połczyn-Zdrój)

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Łęgi (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Świdwin
Gmina : Połczyn-Zdrój
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 15 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '58 "  N , 15 ° 57' 14"  E
Residents : 370
Postal code : 78-320 Połczyn-Zdrój
Telephone code : (+48) 94
License plate : ZSD
Economy and Transport
Street : DW 152 : Buślary ( Połczyn-Zdrój ) - Świdwin , branch: Redło
Rail route : PKP line 421: Połczyn-Zdrój - Świdwin , train station: Redło
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów



Łęgi ( German  Langen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It is located in the powiat Świdwiński , 12 kilometers northeast of the district town Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) in the valley of the Mogilica ( Muglitz ), and it belongs to the rural community (gmina wiejska) Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ).

Local history

Former manor house, "Domo Langen"

Łęgi, away from all main roads, is an old manor and church village . In 1820 the family estate and also the Eichhof and Neu Schlage Vorwerke were owned by the von Hagen family from the Naulin family. The beginnings of the village can be found in the 13th century. The manor is said to have existed as early as the middle of the 14th century. The von Manteuffel family , who handed it over to the von Klockow family , are the first owners . In 1694 the von Wolden family is named as the owner, and in 1776 it is owned by the von Podewils . After other owners in the meantime (after the sale of his possessions in Reselkow near Kolberg), landscape councilor Albrecht Gottlieb von Hagen acquired the manor with the outbuildings in 1820. The castle-like manor house was built in 1827. The last owner before 1945 was Gerhard von Hagen.

In 1469, the Langener Heide was the venue for a bloody conflict between the Belgardians and the Schivelbeiners . The officially named occasion was the dispute over a cow from the Schivelbein town of Nemmin , which is said to have been stolen by Belgard farmers. The true background to the battle, however, is likely to have been the tensions between Pomerania and Brandenburg .

In 1939, 556 people lived in 118 households in the 1935 hectare community. With an area of ​​1145 hectares, the manor (with its own distillery and seed farm) was of course the largest operation. The Neu Schlage manor, which belonged to Hans Heinrich von Hagen until 1945, had an area of ​​at least 526 hectares.

The last German mayor of the community was Hubert Brandt, the head of the responsible district Alt Schlage (today: Sława ) was Paul Roepcke, who officiated together with the registrar Scheinhuber. When the Red Army troops marched into the municipality of Langen at the beginning of March 1945 , there was no fighting. In mid-1946, the expulsion of the German population from the village began, which now belonged to Poland as Łęgi. Łęgi became part of the rural municipality Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ).

church

Parish / Parish

Langen was until 1945 with his predominantly Protestant population an independent congregation that as a branch parish to parish Arnhausen (now Lipie ) in the church district Belgard ( ecclesiastical province of Pomerania ) of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union belonged. The manor owner, most recently Gerhard von Hagen, held the church patronage for Langen.

In 1940 the parish in Langen had 462 parishioners (out of 2140 in the entire parish). The last pastor was Egbert Zieger, whose duties during military service were carried out by his wife Gerda Zieger - with special permission from the Russian and Polish authorities until the expulsion in September 1945.

Today's Łęgi is almost without exception Roman Catholic . The parish is (like Sucha ( Zuchen )) a branch church of the parish Redło ( Redel ) in the deanery Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Protestant church members living here now belong to the Parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Village church

The Langen Church is a handsome stone church with a 20 meter high tower. It was built in 1845 with stones from the Muglitz valley. The two church bells are still preserved today.

In 1946 the church was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church, which rededicated it and gave it the name Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa ( "Sacred Heart Church").

school

In the school year 1927/28, 40 girls and 40 boys from Langen, Eichhof and Neu Schlage attended the one-class elementary school. The last teachers before 1945 were Walter Falkenberg and Walter Fulde.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee (ed.): The Belgard district. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.
  • Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania, 2nd part, authorities, churches, pastors, clergy, institutions and associations. Szczecin 1940.

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