Żegocino

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Żegocino (German name Segenthin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Malechowo (Malchow) in the district of Sławno (Schlawe) .

Geographical location

Żegocino is ten kilometers south of the district town of Sławno north of the Grabow Valley . The village can be reached via the side road that branches off from state road 6 in Bobrowice (Alt Bewersdorf) and leads to Polanów (Pollnow) via Smardzewo (Schmarsow) , Lejkowo (Leikow) and Jacinki (Jatzingen) . Until 1945 the place was a train station on the now disused small railway line Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow of the Schlawer Bahnen .

Żegocino is surrounded by the municipalities: Karwice (Karwitz) and Smardzewo (Schmarsow) in the north, Ostrowiec (Wusterwitz) and Podgórki (German Puddiger) in the east, Święcianowo (Wiesenthal) in the south and Paproty (Parpart) in the west.

history

Segenthin Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Since the 16th century blessing Thin is a fiefdom of those of Heydebreck proven. In the 17th century, the von Puttkamer and von Massow families also had shares, some of which were pledged to the von Podewils in Krangen . In 1751, Colonel and Governor Carl Wilhelm von Kleist acquired Segenthin. The construction of the manor house goes back to him. From 1832 the estate remained in the possession of the von Blumenthal family until the end .

To 1784, the village 1 Vorwerk , 1 water mill , 1 Kalkbrennerei , 6 farmers , 2 , half-peasant , 6 Kossäten , 1 Schulmeister, 1 forging at a total of 15 hearths (households).

In 1818 there were 182 inhabitants in Segenthin. Their number rose to 264 by 1895 and was 278 in 1939.

When the Red Army troops approached in the spring of 1945, the Segenthines fled. With 25 wagons and a tractor (for the older villagers) the trek moved towards Schlawe and Pustamin (now Polish: Postomino) towards Stolpmünde (Ustka), but the planned embarkation via the Baltic Sea did not succeed . On March 8, 1945, the Segenthiner were captured by the Red Army troops and forced to return via Klein Strellin (Strzelinko).

In the autumn of 1945, families without labor began to be deported. The last people wishing to leave could not leave the place until 1958, which in the meantime was incorporated under the name Żegocino in the Polish Voivodeship Köslin (from 1999 West Pomeranian Voivodeship ) and today belongs to Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński .

Office of Segenthin

Before 1945, Segenthin formed the office of Segenthin in the district of Schlawe i with Deutsch Puddiger (Polish: Podgórki) and Wiesenthal (Święcianowo) . Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The last head of office was teacher Paul Lawrenz .

Segenthin was also the seat of the registry office to which, in addition to Deutsch Pudiiger and Wiesenthal, the communities Wusterwitz (Ostrowiec) and Balenthin (Białęcino) belonged. The responsible district court was in Schlawe .

church

Before 1945 the population of Segenthin was almost without exception Protestant . The village belonged to the parish German Puddiger (Podgórki) associated with the parish Wusterwitz (Ostrowiec) for the parish was united Wusterwitz. The last church patronage was the manor owner Anette von Blumenthal . The last German clergyman was Pastor Heinz Anger.

Since 1945 the inhabitants of Żegocino have been predominantly Roman Catholic . Furthermore, Podgórki is the parish, which is looked after by the - now Catholic - parish Ostrowiec, which is in the deanery Sławno in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents are affiliated with the parish office in Koszalin (Köslin) , which belongs to the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The one-class elementary school stood in the middle of the village until 1945 and before its demolition. It was built in 1848 with a teacher's apartment. Until 1927 the children of Wiesenthal (Święcinanowo) also attended school in Segenthin. The last German teacher was Paul Lawrenz .

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989

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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '  N , 16 ° 36'  E