Świerzno (Miastko)

Świerzno
	Świerzno
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Pomerania
Powiat :	Bytów
Gmina :	Miastko
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 16 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '17 "  N , 16 ° 50' 44"  E
Residents :	214 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	77-200 Miastko
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	GBY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kawcze - Żydowo
Rail route :	PKP line 405: Piła-Ustka , train station: Kawcze (3 km)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Świerzno (German Groß Schwirsen, Rummelsburg / Pommern district ) is a place in the west of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Miastko (Rummelsburg) in the Powiat Bytowski (Bütow district) .

Geographical location

Świerzno is located on a side road, the provincial road 205 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde) - Sławno (Schlawe) - Bobolice (Bublitz) ) at Żydowo (Sydow) in the province Zachodniopomorskie with the provincial road 206 ( Koszalin (Koslin) - Polanów (Pollnow) - Miastko) at Kawcze (Kaffzig) connects. It is 12 kilometers to the former district town of Miastko. The nearest train station is Kawcze (3 km) on the PKP line 405 ( Piła (Schneidemühl) - Szczecinek (Neustettin) - Miastko - Słupsk (Stolp) - Ustka (Stolpmünde) ).

Neighboring towns are: Nowy Żelibórz (Selberg B) in the west, Biała (Bial) and Świerzenko (Klein Schwirsen) in the north, Kawcze ( Kaffzig) in the east and Bobięcino ( Papenzin) in the south.

history

Groß Schwirsen and Klein Schwirsen northwest of the city of Rummelsburg on a map from 1910.

Today's Świerzno was first mentioned in 1477 as the property of the Lettow s. In 1590, during a church visitation , 12 farmers, 4 cottagers and 1 mill are named, in 1717 there are only 9 farmers, but 6 cottagers. The 11 Lower Saxony houses still in existence in 1825 indicated the origins of their residents. At the end of the 18th century, 9 farmers and 7 farmers were registered, as well as 2 farms , 1 preacher, 1 sexton and 1 blacksmith and the Mallenzin farm (now in Polish: Malęcino).

In 1519 Mickes Lettow sold his village and Gut Groß Schwirsen to Lütcke Massow , captain in Rügenwalde (Darłowo). Michel Lettow zu Plötzig (Płocko) owned a small part of Groß Schwirsen . The property remained in the Massow family until September 23, 1930, when it went to the non-profit settlement company , which converted it into 17 pension assets in 1931.

While Groß Schwirsen had 211 inhabitants in 1812, the number rose to 566 by 1871, and in 1925 it was 600 (with 72 houses). Today just over 200 people live here.

Before 1945, Groß Schwirsen belonged to the Rummelsburg i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . After 1945 the place came under the name Świerzno to Poland and is now part of the urban and rural community (Gmina) Miastko (Rummelsburg) in the powiat Bytowski of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ).

church

Parish church

The half-timbered church , built in 1710/11, was supplemented by a brick building in the west in 1844. The altar from the beginning of the 18th century has clumsy side parts, which were probably made in 1755 by the carver and painter Kaiser from Bublitz (today Polish: Bobolice ).

For more than 230 years the Groß Schwirsen Church was a Protestant church. After 1945 it was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church in Poland , which it re-consecrated under the name Kościół pw.Niepokalanego Serca NMP .

Parish

The parish Groß Schwirsen was originally a daughter parish of Pritzig (now in Polish: Przytocko). In 1576, however, it became independent, and the places Bial (Biała), Gadgen (Gatka), Kaffzig (Kawcze), Klein Schwirsen (Świerzenko), Mallenzin (Malęcino), Peierzig (Pajersko) and Sellberg B (Nowy Żelibórz) were parished .

The population in the parish was almost without exception Protestant denomination. Until 1945 the parish belonged to United Schwirsen church district Rummelsburg in Ostsprengel the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Prussian Union of churches . In 1940 2050 parishioners lived here.

After 1945 the majority of the population was Catholic . Świerzno remained the parish seat of a now Catholic parish in the Deanery Polanów (Pollnow) of the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical parishioners living here are looked after by the parish office of the Kreuzkirche in Słupsk (Stolp) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Pastor

Between 1576 and 1945 served as Protestant clergy in Groß Schwirsen:

• Daniel Papke, 1576-1606
• Joachim Rudenick, 1606–1631
• Joachim Koch, 1632–1667
• Andreas Strenge, 1668-1717
• Stephanus Jakob Ferner, 1718–1778
• Gottlieb Rudolf Viktor Wwerckmeister, 1779–1811
• Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Löck, 1813–1815
• Carl Wilhelm Harthausen, 1817-1821
• Ernst Friedrich Eichler, 1821–1858
• Gustav Traugott Belling, 1859–1863
• Karl Friedrich Huebner, 1863–1868
• August Heinrich Schwantes, 1869–1901
• Friedrich Adolf Wilhelm Busch, 1901–1911
• Georg Meyer, 1911–1945

After 1945 the Catholic clergy worked here:

• Gracjan Pikulik, 1974-1980
• Franciszek Oleń, 1980–1988
• Miecysław Gruchała, 1988–1994
• Włodzimierz Bartkowiak, 1994-2008
• Marian Kraszewski, 2008–2009
• Józef Olszewski, 2009–2011
• Dariusz Rataj, 2011–2014
• Paweł Brostowicz, since 2014

school

There was already a school in Groß Schwirsen in 1769 when it was ordered that the summer school should be held on Sundays. There were also the children from Kaffzig (now in Polish: Kawcze), Klein Schwirsen (Świerzenko) and Mallenzin (Malęcino).

In 1797 the place got a new school building; In 1925/26 a new building had to be built. In 1937 there were two teachers here who taught 108 school children.

literature

• The district of Rummelsburg. A home book , ed. from the district committee of the Rummelsburg district in 1938, new edition, Lübeck, 1979
• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 141.
• Ernst Müller, The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present , Part 2, Stettin, 1912

Web links

• Parish of Groß Schwirsen before 1945

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017