Sowno (Sianów)

Sowno
	Sowno
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Sianów
Geographic location :	54 ° 11 '  N , 16 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 11 '4 "  N , 16 ° 31' 2"  E
Height :	80 m npm
Residents :	120
Postal code :	76-004
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sianów - Sowno - Polanów
Rail route :	Skibno railway station , Szczecin - Gdańsk railway line
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sowno (German (Alt-) Zowen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the municipality of Sianów ( Zanow ) in the Koszalin ( Köslin ) district.

Geographical location

Sowno is 28 kilometers east of the district town of Koszalin in Western Pomerania . The village can be reached via the 206 voivodship road (Koszalin - Polanów ( Pollnow )) via Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) and Sowinko ( Neu Zowen ). There is also a side road connection via Ratajki ( Ratteick ) to Sianów ( Zanow ) (17 km) and via Nadbór ( Nadebahr ) to Polanów (13 km). Until 1945 there was a connection to the Schlawe –Pollnow small railway line operated by Schlawer Bahnen via the Latzig station (now in Polish: Laski), which is four kilometers away .

Sowno is surrounded by the neighboring villages of Laski and Bukowo ( (Wendisch-) Buckow ) in the east, Nacław ( Natzlaff ) in the south, Sowinko and Powidz ( Friedensdorf ) in the west and Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) in the north.

The terrain of the Sowno district rises sharply to the east up to a height of 154 meters above sea level.

Place name

Sowno ( Alt Zowen ) is two kilometers north of Sowinko ( Neu Zowen ). The place name Zowen also occurred in the Pomeranian Regenwalde district until 1945. The name is likely to be of Slavic origin and derive from "sowa" = "owl" (Zowen = owl place). The Polish name Sowno also originates from this origin , which also refers to the place Zowen = Sowno , which used to be in the Regenwalde district and is now in the Powiat Łobeski .

history

Alt Zowen is an old von Ramelsche's fiefdom that has existed since 1628 . After that it belonged to the von Podewils- Krangen family and in 1691 it passed to the Glasenapp family . Since then, Zowen has had many different owners. From 1912 to 1945 it was owned by the Somborn family.

In addition to the 498.5 hectare manor, there were four full farms in Zowen with over 10 hectares of land and a settlement site with less than 10 hectares. There were also quarries outside the village center: a quarry 1.5 km north of the village had more than 10 hectares of land. To the south of the forestry department, 1 km behind the fish ponds on the Neu Zowen - Kritten road, there were four other excavations, each with less than 10 hectares of land.

In 1818 115 people lived in Alt Zowen. The number of inhabitants rose to 290 in 1871, in 1895 it was 340 and in 1939 there were a total of 452 people.

The area of ​​the municipality of Alt Zowen was then 1328 hectares. The Alt Zowen community had two places to live:

1. Alt Zowen
2. Kritten (now Krytno in Polish), southeast of Alt Zowen

There were a total of 30 residential buildings in the community. The last German mayor was Rudolf Schulz.

On March 6, 1945 , Red Army troops marched into the village. The landowner Ortwin Somborn and the tutor were shot on the same day. After the end of the war, the village was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania . The village population stayed in the village for the time being and worked under Soviet and Polish administration. 1946 all the families of the poles from the region were reported .

Alt Zowen was renamed Sowno by the Poles . The village is now part of Gmina Sianów in the Koszaliński powiat in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Office Zowen

Until 1945, Alt Zowen was the seat of the Zowen Office in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The communities Friedensdorf (now Polish: Powidz), Latzig (Laski) and Neu Zowen were included in the district. The last heads of office were Ortwin Somborn and Eberhard Schmidtsdorff.

Zowen registry office

The municipalities of the district of Zowen were also united to form the registry office Zowen with its seat in Alt Zowen. The more recent registry office documents from the period before 1945 are now in the registry office in Sianów ( Zanow ), those from earlier times in the Koszalin State Archives ( Köslin ).

church

Most of the inhabitants of Alt Zowen belonged to the Protestant church. In the village there was a half-timbered church from the 19th century. Alt Zowen formed an independent parish with Kritten (now in Polish: Krytno), Friedensdorf (Powidz) and Neu Zowen (Sowinko), which - like the parish of Ratteick (Ratajki) - was a branch church in the parish of Kösternitz (Kościernica). It was in the church district of Köslin (Koszalin) in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1940 the parish of Zowen had 1006 members. The patronage of the church last exercised the manor owner Ortwin Somborn. The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm Schubring. The church records of the filial community Zowen from before 1945 are now in the State Archives Koszalin ( Koszalin ).

Today the residents of Sowno are predominantly members of the Catholic Church in Poland . They belong to the branch church Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) in the parish Szczeglino ( Steglin ) in the diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg ( Köslin-Kolberg ). The Protestant church members are looked after by the parish office in Koszalin in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Alt Zowen had a one-class elementary school on the way to Neu Zowen. The last German headmaster before 1945 was Hildebrand.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The community of Alt Zowen in the former district of Schlawe in Pomerania (2011).

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1989, especially volume 2, pp. 831-834.