Łętowo (Sławno)

Łętowo
	Łętowo
	Łętowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Sławno
Geographic location :	54 ° 17 ' N , 16 ° 49' E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '55 " N , 16 ° 48' 55" E
Residents :	230
Postal code :	76-100 (Sławno)
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Łętowo (German Lantow, district of Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in the very east of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the powiat Sławieński (district of Schlawe).

Geographical location

The old farming village of Łętowo is located twelve kilometers southeast of Sławno and can be reached via the voivodship road 205 in the direction of Bobolice ( Bublitz ) via the Pomiłowo ( Marienthal ) and Gwiazdowo ( Quäsdow ) and Żukowo ( Suckow ) junction . Until 1945 there was a connection to the Schivelbein (Świdwin) - Zollbrück (Korzybie) railway via the Suckow railway station located in Lantower Feldmark . And today this Korzybie is the closest train station at the intersection of the PKP lines No. 212 (Korzybie - Lipusz ( Lippusch )) , No. 405 (Piła ( Schneidemühl ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde )) and No. 418 (Korzybie – Darłowo ( Rügenwalde) )) , whereby only the one from Piła to Ustka is operated.

Łętowo is located directly on the north-west bank of the particularly scenic Jezioro Łętowo ( Lantow Lake ) with a water surface of 400 hectares . The small brook - formerly called Kuhbach - flows through the village, drains the lake to Wieprza ( Wipper ).

Neighboring towns of Łętowo are: Janiewice ( Jannewitz ) in the west, Żukowo ( Suckow ) in the north, Korzybie ( Zollbrück ) in the northeast, Osieki ( Wusseken ) in the east, Kępice ( hammer mill ) and Warcino ( Varzin ) in the south - the latter three already in in the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

The flat, undulating landscape, which slopes slightly towards the lake, is about 50 meters above sea level.

history

The oldest known owner of Lantow (Low German: Lante ) was the Order of St. John . In 1321 the village was sold to the von Massow family by order of the vice-master Gerhard von Bortfeld . Around 1410 Henning III. from Massow to Lantow and Suckow (Żukowo). In the last half of the 17th century, the Massows had to give up the village. It came to the von Zitzewitz family , from whom Adam von Podewils auf Krangen bought it before 1690 , together with Jannewitz . In 1719 the von Podewils divided their large property in the Schlawer Land within the family.

1784 Lantow had 1 Vorwerk , 6 farmers, 3 Kossäten , 1 schoolmaster and 1 forester at a total of 23 hearths.

In 1844, the later Count Werner Georg Adam von Blumenthal inherited Lantow along with the neighboring goods through his wife, a née von Podewils . In 1874 their son Werner Graf von Blumenthal sold the rule to the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .

In 1931, the Princely Hohenzollern Administration gave agricultural land to the Pomeranian Landgesellschaft for resettlement, including Lantow with 250 hectares. Six new settlements and reconstruction of the manor buildings created a further twelve.

Until 1945 Lantow belonged with Jannewitz (Janiewice), Qäsdow (Gwiazdowo) and Suckow (Żukowo) to the administrative and civil registry district Suckow in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The district was in the district court area of Schlawe .

On March 7, 1945, Soviet troops invaded Lantow. Many residents were abducted. In the course of 1946, Poland took over the farms and the remaining Germans were expelled. Lantow was under the name Łętowo a district of Gmina Sławno in the powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Slupsk Voivodeship ).

Local breakdown before 1945

Until 1945 there were two residential spaces in the municipality of Lantow:

Suckow (train station) , train station with apartments for railway employees on the Reichsbahn line Schivelbein - Zollbrück directly at the northeast entrance to Lantow,
Suckow (Oberförsterei) , Fürstlich Hohenzollernsches Forstamt, from which the administration of the forests took place, 200 meters north of the road leading from Suckow west of the railway line. From here 4200 hectares of real estate were administered, including 3269 hectares of woodland.

church

Before 1945, the population of Lantow was predominantly Protestant . The church was the village church Suckow , because Lantow belonged with Jannewitz, Quäsdow and Suckow to the parish Suckow, which was in the parish of Schlawe of the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Erich Mett .

The affiliation of the (before 1945 few) Roman Catholic residents to the St. Antonius parish in Schlawe remained even after 1945 - with a sharp increase in the number of Catholics. In 1957, however, Żukowo was again an independent parish, which Łętowo was attached to. The ukowo parish is now part of the Sławno deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members now living here are assigned to the parish office in Koszalin ( Köslin ) of the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The Lantow elementary school building was in the center of the village. The number of children to be taught was over 60. All children were housed in a classroom. The last German teacher before 1945 was Ewald Winter .

literature

Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book. 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989.