Baszewice

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Historic village church

Baszewice ( German  Batzwitz ) is a village in the powiat Gryficki of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 6 kilometers south of Gryfice ( Greifenberg ) and 84 kilometers northeast of the regional metropolis of Szczecin .

history

Batzwitz with the castle, a mill as well as the church fiefdom and the vicarage fiefdom belonged to a number of lands that Pomeranian Duke Philip I had given the brothers and cousins Mellin as fief in 1540. A part of the village had been in the fiefdom of the Plötz family since 1774 , the remaining part of the village, where there were eight farmers around 1784, belonged to the Marienkirche von Greifenberg.

Vahnerow Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Around 1930 the rural community of Batzwitz included the residential areas Adolfshof , Batzwitz train station , Chausseehaus Lebbin , Lebbin and Vahnerow . The district of Batzwitz comprised 15 square kilometers; in 1925 the community had 525 inhabitants.

Until 1945 Batzwitz belonged to the district of Trieglaff in the district of Greifenberg , until 1937 in the district of Stettin , from 1938 to 1945 in the district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The region came under Polish administration after the end of World War II . The residents, who had not previously fled the approaching war front, were subsequently evicted . Houses and courtyards of the German residents were confiscated as part of Polish expropriation measures. In 2008 the village had 284 inhabitants.

church

The church, built using boulders, was consecrated in 1440 by Bishop Heinrich Woggersin . A boarded-up wooden tower, which, according to the inscription, was built in 1706, served as the church tower for a long time. The Protestant parish of Batzwitz with its mother church belonged to the Greifenberg Synod.

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 6: Kreise Kamin and Greifenberg , Anklam 1870, pp. 937–939 ( online )

Footnotes

  1. ^ Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1843, p. 149.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 1, Stettin 1784, pp. 413-414, No. 6. and pp. 402-403.
  3. ^ Batzwitz community in the Pomerania information system.
  4. ↑ Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 52.

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '  N , 15 ° 12'  E