Łekno (Będzino)

Łękno
	Łękno
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Będzino
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '47 "  N , 16 ° 0' 55"  E
Residents :	130 (Nov 2009)
Postal code :	76-037 Będzino
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	State road 11 : Kołobrzeg ↔ Koszalin - Bytom
Rail route :	PKP line 402: Koszalin – Kołobrzeg – Goleniów, train station: Kazimierz Pomorski
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów

Church in Łękno

Łekno (German Bast ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Będzino ( rural community Alt Banzin ) in the Powiat Koszaliński ( Kösliner Kreis ).

Geographical location

Łekno located eleven kilometers north-west of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) at the Polish National Road 11 (former German national route 160 ) that of Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg far) about Koszalin south to the Upper Silesian Bytom ( Bytom leads). It is only six kilometers ( Chłopy ( Bauerhufen )) or eight kilometers ( Mielno ( Großmöllen )) from the village to the Baltic Sea coast .

There is a rail connection via the Kazimierz Pomorski stop ( Bast-Kasimirsburg until 1945 ) on the state railway line 402 from Koszalin to Goleniów ( Gollnow ) .

In front of the village are lake meadows, to which the Baster lake , which was drained in 1923 , also belonged.

Place name

The place name Łękno occurs several times in Poland.

history

Bast was first mentioned in 1288 when Bishop Hermann von Gleichen von Cammin left the village to the Dargun monastery . In 1513 Bishop Martin Karith bought it back. The bishops of Cammin had a hunting lodge in Bast , in which the last pre-Reformation bishop of Cammin, Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen , died in 1544 .

Until 1945 Bast belonged to district Koszalin in the administrative district of Koszalin the Prussian province of Pomerania . In 1933, 505 inhabitants lived here, their number fell to 469 by 1939.

Bast was with the communities Alt Banzin (now Polish: Będzino), Poppenhagen (Popowo), Varchmin (Wierzchomino) and Varchminshagen (Wierzchominko) before 1945 part of the district of Varchmin.

Since 1945 the village has had the Polish name Łękno . 1975-1998 the place belonged to the Koszalin Voivodeship . Today It is Łekno a part of Gmina Będzino in the powiat Koszaliński in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . In 2009 there were 130 inhabitants in Łekno.

church

Village church

The church of Bast - probably built in the 15th century - was the only vaulted one in the former Köslin district. It has four cross-vaulted bays and the tower is included in the church. An extension in the south has a star vault .

The church's furnishings included a winged altar with paintings, a donation from Duke Casimir VI. , who was then Protestant Bishop of Cammin , from 1588. The altar was created by an unknown master based on the model of the altar in the castle church in Stettin . The open altar had the Lord's Supper as its main image ; one of the painted heads of the disciples is said to be a portrait of Duke Casimir VI. be. The two side wings of the open altar showed Christ on the cross and the resurrection of Christ . The closed altar showed Adam and Eve on the two outer surfaces , in the middle on the back of the side wings an angel with a palm branch and the Annunciation . The altar was crowned with a gable that showed the nine-field coat of arms of Pomerania . The main picture with the Lord's Supper has been in a Polish Catholic seminary in Köslin since 1985; the whereabouts of the remaining parts of the altar are unknown.

The three-part altar in the church today was brought to the church after 1945.

The pulpit from the 18th century is decorated in red and green tones. Of the previously 30 painted glass panes, 23 are still preserved and show various motifs such as coats of arms, name insignia and dates.

The three-story tower with slender pointed arches on the upper floor was damaged by lightning in 1789 and again in 1981.

Until 1945 the Baster church was a Protestant church. After 1945 it was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church, which rededicated it on February 24, 1946 and gave it the name St. John the Baptist (Św. Jana Chrzciciela).

Parish

The population of Bast was almost without exception Protestant denomination until 1945 . The parish existed since the Reformation same time in 1538. was Bast parish seat for the same parish in which except Bast the villages of Old Banzin (today Polish: Będzino) Kasimirsburg (Kazimierz Pomorski) Popp Hagen (Popowo) Protect Werder (Łąkoszyn) and Todenhagen (Dobre) were parish.

The parish of Bast, to which a total of 1150 parishioners belonged in 1940, was located before 1945 in the church district of Köslin (Koszalin) in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Łękno has been a predominantly Catholic village since 1945 . The village is the seat of the parish of the same name with 1466 parishioners and belongs to the deanery Mielno ( Großmöllen ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . In Dobre ( Todenhagen ) the parish maintains a measuring station.

Evangelical church members living here today are parish in the parish in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

literature

• Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania . Part 2: Authorities, churches, parish offices, clergy, institutions and associations . 3. Edition. Evangelical Pastors' Association of the Province of Pomerania, Stargard 1940.
• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 51.
• Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Edited due to the Steinbrück'schen Ms. . Part 2: Ernst Müller: The administrative district of Köslin . Sannier, Stettin 1912.
• Heinrich Schulz: Pomeranian village churches east of the Oder. A book d. Memories . Beck, Herfort 1963.

Web links

Commons : Łekno  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rady Gminy w Będzinie, Plan Odnowy Miejscowości Łekno i Kazimierz Pomorski na lata 2010-2017 , December 2009, p. 11. Online (PDF file)
2. ↑ Ralf-Gunnar Werlich: Lost sources on the history of the Cammin diocese from Bast and Cammin in old photographs. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 2/2012, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 4-7.