Święciechowo

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Święciechowo
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Święciechowo (Poland)
Święciechowo
Święciechowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Łobez
Gmina : Resko
Geographic location : 53 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '23 "  N , 15 ° 24' 35"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZLO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów



Entrance with place name sign (2013)

Święciechowo ( German Grünhof , community Lowin ; also Grünhoff ) is a residential area in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . In the 19th century under Ludolph von Beckedorff, the place became a center of the Roman Catholic diaspora in the province of Pomerania .

Geographical location

The place is in Western Pomerania , about five kilometers south of the town of Resko (rain forest) , with which it is connected by a country road. The immediate neighbors are Ługowina (Lowin) in the north and Dorowo (Dorow) in the east . To the west and south is the Raddower Heide forest area .

history

The Grünhof estate came into the limelight after it was acquired by Ludolph Beckedorff in 1827 . Beckedorff had been a leading Prussian civil servant, most recently General Plenipotentiary of the University of Berlin , but converted to Catholicism and was then dismissed from the Prussian civil service. Beckedorff devoted himself to agriculture in Grünhof; in 1831 he founded the Regenwald Agricultural Association . In 1840 he was recalled to the Prussian civil service by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , raised to the nobility and made president of the newly established Prussian State Economics College in 1842 . Beckedorff's sugar factory in Grünhof produced up to 260 tons of sugar annually; the net profit in the 1840s was over 900 thalers a year.

From 1855 onwards, von Beckedorff had a Catholic church built in Grünhof, which was completed in 1859. In 1857 he founded the St. Aloysius Foundation here, which was the first monastery to be founded in Pomerania since the Reformation . In 1861 it was occupied by Borromean women from the Trebnitz monastery . The Borromean women set up a primary school and an orphanage here, and Catholic children's homes were also founded in Stralsund (1862) and Stettin (1867) from here. In December 1864, 207 people were counted in Grünhof.

In 1914 a hospital with a nursing home was set up in Grünhof. In 1927 the Pomeranian Catholic Day took place in Grünhof.

Before 1945, Grünhof belonged to the rural community of Lowin in the Regenwalde district of the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . Shortly thereafter, Grünhof was placed under Polish administration. If the villagers had not fled, they were later evicted by the local Polish administration and replaced by Poles . The German village of Grünhof was renamed Święciechowo .

At first the church and a farm were preserved.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 1: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Stettin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 338–339, no. 20.
  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania - description of the conditions of this country in the second half of the 19th century . Part II: Land book of the Duchy of Stettin, of Kamin and Western Pomerania; or the administrative district of the Königl. Government to Szczecin . Volume 7: The rainforest district, and news of the spread of the Roman Catholic. Church in Pomerania. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, pp. 723–726.
  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Dictionary. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-185-6 , pp. 141-142.
  • Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 143.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 2. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921, p. 292. (Reprint: Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-112-6 )
  2. ^ Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Beckedorff, Ludolph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 219 f.
  3. ↑ Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann : Pommern 1815 to 1875. In: Werner Buchholz (Hrsg.): German history in the east of Europe. Pomerania . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8 , p. 402.
  4. ↑ The results of the property and building tax assessment in the administrative district of Stettin 1864 - 9th district Regenwalde . Berlin 1866, p. 10, no.51.