Bagicz

Former station building in Bagicz

Bagicz (German Bodenhagen ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Ustronie Morskie (rural community Henkenhagen) in the powiat Kołobrzeski (Kolberger Kreis) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 115 kilometers northeast of Stettin and about 9 kilometers east of Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) , close to the Baltic Sea coast. The closest neighbor is in the east Ustronie Morskie (Henkenhagen) with the residential areas Sianożęty (Ziegenberg) and Olszyna (Ulrichshof) . In the south lies the Kolberger Stadtwald. The facilities of the former Kolberg air base are located in the village .

history

The village was laid out in 1753 at the insistence of King Frederick the Great by the city of Kolberg's treasury between the city forest and the Baltic Sea coast. For this purpose, 20 farm positions were set up in the form of a street village , which were occupied by settlers from the Palatinate . The colonists received letters of inheritance, according to which they owned their farms “hereditary and peculiar”, and were thus legally better off than the residents of the surrounding villages.

The new village was given the place name Bodenhagen after August Friedrich von Boden , who was Minister in the General Directorate in Berlin. The similarity of the name with a village Boltenhagen , which existed in this area since the Middle Ages, is probably a coincidence; that Boltenhagen had already been renamed Ulrichshof in the 17th century .

In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784) Bodenhagen is listed as one of 20 Kolberg town owned villages. Brüggemann wrote: "The residents mostly live from cattle breeding because their fields are bad."

In the 19th century, several extensions were made west of the village, which were given the place name Trift around 1885 . Later this settlement grew together with the rest of the village of Bodenhagen and was no longer managed separately. Bodenhagen received a station on the Köslin – Kolberg line . A settlement was built around the station, which was given the official place name Am Bahnhof .

Before 1900 Bodenhagen was discovered as a vacation spot. In 1910 it was named " Ostseebad ".

As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the Kolberg Air Base was established in the village between 1935 and 1936 . This changed the character of the place, was disadvantageous for tourism, but initially stimulated economic development.

Before 1945 Bodenhagen formed a rural community in the Kolberg-Körlin district of the Prussian province of Pomerania .

In 1945 Bodenhagen came to Poland, like all of Western Pomerania. The air base was taken over by the Soviet Army . The village population was driven out . The Soviet Army added the area of the actual village of Bodenhagen to the airfield and tore down the houses. The living space at the station was settled by Poles. Bodenhagen received the Polish name Bagicz .

Development of the population

1816: 180 inhabitants
1855: 366 inhabitants
1871: 465 inhabitants
1885: 436 inhabitants
1905: 501 inhabitants
1919: 561 inhabitants
1933: 484 inhabitants
1939: 571 inhabitants

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Gustav von der Heyde (1785–1863), Prussian lieutenant general, most recently in command of the Neisse fortress

Connected to the place

Ulrich Sander-Bodenhagen (1892–1972), German writer and painter, worked in Bodenhagen from 1934

literature

Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , pp. 103-113.

Web links

Commons : Bagicz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bodenhagen at the Kolberger Lande association

Footnotes

↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 492 ( online ).
^ Entry in the private information system Pomerania
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , p. 108.

54.200277777778 15.7Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ' N , 15 ° 42' E

[1] Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 492 ( online ).

[2] Entry in the private information system Pomerania

[VO-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , p. 108.