Łebień (Damnica)

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Łebień (Poland)
Łebień
Łebień
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Słupski
Gmina : Damnica
Geographic location : 54 ° 29 '  N , 17 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 29 '3 "  N , 17 ° 19' 51"  E
Residents : 231
Postal code : 76-231 Damnica
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GSL
Economy and Transport
Street : Główczyce / ext. 213 - Stara Dąbrowa / DK 6
Rail route : Stargard in Pomerania – Gdansk
Railway station: Strzyżyno Słupskie
Next international airport : Danzig



Łebień (German Labehn, Stolp / Pommern district ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the Powiat Słupski ( Stolp district ).

Geographical location and transport links

Łebień is located in Western Pomerania , about 20 kilometers east of the district town of Słupsk ( Stolp ) on the western bank of the Łupawa ( Lupow ). A side road leads through the village, which is completely surrounded by dense forests, which connects Główczyce ( Glowitz ) on Voivodship Road 213 with Stara Dąbrowa ( Alt Damerow ) not far from Polish state road 6 (former German Reichsstrasse 2 , now also European route 28 ). The nearest train station is Strzyżyno Słupskie ( Stresow ) on the Stargard line in Pomerania – Gdansk .

Place name

The Polish place name Łebień , like the German name Labehn, occurs twice: the second place is 30 kilometers as the crow flies in a north-easterly direction north of the city of Lębork ( Lauenburg in Pomerania ).

history

Labehn manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

In 1274, Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania donated the two villages of Viatrow and Lipno (either Liepen (Lipno) or Labehn) to the Kolbatz monastery . After that, Labehn (also called Lebbene and Lebbehn ) was owned by a branch of the Zitzewitz family . In 1517 the village is owned by the von Weiher family . After it was pledged to Georg Anton von Kameke in 1670 , it was transferred to the Privy Councilor of State and Oberhofmarschall Johann Ernst von Grumbkow in 1690 . 1706 the property was sold to Peter Friedrich von Zitzewitz (1689–1736). Because of the frequently changing owners, it was a so-called roller good .

In 1784 Labehn had a Vorwerk , a grain and a sawmill at the Lupow, three farmers, three Kossäten , a pitcher, a schoolmaster and a newly created Vorwerk called Friedrichshof (Domanice) on a total of 24 fires (households). The village was sometimes called 'the rushing water' at the time .

In 1706 it came back to the von Zitzewitz family. From 1800 to 1836 Labehn was owned by the von Kösteritz family , and in 1843 by a von Lewinski until it was sold to a von Gutzmerow in 1852 . By marriage it came into the hands of the Kleists . Colonel Leopold von Kleist († 1923) and his son of the same name, Rittmeister Leopold von Kleist († 1940), were the last economic owners, the inheritance went to Günter von Kleist. In 1938 the estate comprised 1033 hectares, of which 521 hectares were arable land and 417 hectares were forest. In addition to the estate, there were 55 farms in Labehn.

In 1905 there were 237 inhabitants in Labehn. Their number was 210 in 1910, increased to 346 by 1933 and only 328 in 1939.

Until 1945 Labehn and the village Friedrichshof belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . With the communities Bewersdorf (now Polish: Bobrowniki), Dammen (Damno), Lojow (Łojewo), Viatrow (1938–45 Steinfurt , today Wiatrowo) and Vieschen (Wiszno), Labehn was incorporated into the district of Bewersdorf.

Before the end of the Second World War , Labehn was occupied by infantry of the Red Army on March 9, 1945 . There were serious attacks against civilians. Several people, including villagers, were killed and some were abducted. On September 9, 1945, Labehn was placed under Polish administration . The entire village population by the Poles expelled . Labehn was renamed Łebień .

Later 175 villagers displaced from Labehn by the Poles in the FRG and 102 in the GDR were identified.

The village is now a district of Gmina Damnica in the powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). 231 residents now live here.

church

Before 1945 the population of Labehn was predominantly of Protestant denomination. The village belonged to the parish of Dammen (now in Polish: Damno) in the church district of Stolp-Altstadt in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 a total of 13 places with 4900 parishioners were incorporated into the parish district. The last German clergyman was Pastor Magnus Erdmann .

Almost without exception, the population of Łebień has been Catholic since 1945 . The village belongs to the parish Damno ( Dammen ) in the deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical church members living here are incorporated into the Kreuzkirche parish in Słupsk .

school

In the Labehn primary school, which was opened in 1932, one teacher taught 46 school children. The last German school owner was Max Probandt .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatischer Führertum . Volume 2, Hamburg 1837.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 976-977, No. 74.
  3. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania. Evidence of his German past . Lübeck 1989, p. 679 ( Online; PDF)