Benice (Kamień Pomorski)

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Benice (German Benz ) is a village in the municipality of Kamień Pomorski in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Benice is located in Western Pomerania , twelve kilometers southeast of the city of Kamień Pomorski ( Cammin in Pomerania ) and 58 kilometers north of Szczecin .

history

Former manor house of the Flemming-Benz family. , built in 1867.

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1365. In 1466 the Flemming-Böck family owned Benz. In 1628 there were three parts with a total of 20 hooves , and there were five kossa tots , a miller, a blacksmith, a shepherd and an inn in the village . Around 1780 there was a in the town Vorwerk , ten farmers, two Kossäten, a blacksmith, a windmill, a schoolmaster and a total of 36 households. Around 1870 the Lehnrittergut had a size of 440 hectares and 147 inhabitants, the parish village Benz had 31 owners on 277.5 hectares and 192 inhabitants.

Around 1930, the district of Benz had three residential areas, in which there were a total of 41 residential buildings:

  1. Benz
  2. Klaushagen
  3. Pemplow

In 1925 there were 426 inhabitants in the municipality of Benz, who were spread over 88 households.

The district of Benz had an area of ​​1,690 hectares, of which 625.4 hectares were forest. In 1944 the manor had a size of approx. 1,120 hectares, its last owner before 1945 was Hasso Graf von Flemming-Benz.

District Klaushagen . This district was first mentioned in a document in 1321. In 1628 there was a sheep farm here that belonged to the village of Benz. Around 1780 there was a farm in Klaushagen with a sheep farm and four fireplaces. In 1870 there was an area of ​​487 hectares, five residential buildings and 65 residents. In 1923 ten bond estates with 169 hectares were founded. In 1944 a 341 hectare forest belonged to the Benz forest estate.

Pemplow district . This district was mentioned in a document in 1308 as the property of the cathedral chapter of Cammin. In 1530 the Schulzenamt with four hooves remained with the Steinwehr family , and the Benz farmers occupied the desolate farmsteads (ten hooves). Around 1780 the Vorwerk with the sheep farm and five fireplaces belonged to Gut Benz. Around 1870 the district is a fiefdom of the Flemming with 451.5 hectares and 96 inhabitants. In 1939 the sheep farm and the Vorwerk belonged to Benz. In 1867 a new manor house was built in the same place as the old one.

Until 1945 Benz belonged to the district of Cammin i. Pom. the province of Pomerania .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the population of Benz was given permission to evacuate the village late on March 4, 1945, but it came too late. The treks were shot at by Soviet tanks and rolled over at noon at Parlowkrug on March 5, 1945 . After the end of the war, Benz was placed under Polish administration. When the Poles took over administration in the summer of 1945, the final expulsion of the remaining population began in the region , which was largely completed in the same year.

church

The majority of the villagers present in Benz before 1945 belonged to the Protestant creed. The village church of Benz, in which the Protestants from Klaushagen were also parish, was a branch church of Königsmühl .

On August 3, 1898, the birthday of the founder, Hereditary Land Marshal Hasso Graf von Flemming, a new church was inaugurated in a beautiful location on a hill at the exit of the village, a neo-Gothic brick building with a tower flanked by two stair turrets. It replaced a small half-timbered church, which was mentioned in 1594 as a branch church of Königsmühl and which served as a burial chapel until 1945, but was then demolished. The patronage of the churches in Benz was in the hands of the Flemming family.

school

Benz had his own elementary school until 1945.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

  • Karl von Flemming (1872–1938), Fideikommissherr on Basenthin, squire on Leussin near Wollin and member of the German Reichstag

literature

  • Hasso von Flemming-Benz: The Cammin district . Holzner, Würzburg 1970.
  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 6, Anklam 1870, pp. 358-360 ( online ), p. 398 ( online ) and p. 420 ( online ).
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1784, part II, volume 1, pp. 37-38, no. 21 ( online ), p. 33, no. 8, ( online ) and p. 41, no. ( Online ).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hasso von Flemming-Benz: The Cammin district . Holzner, Würzburg 1970, pp. 120-121.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1784, Part II, Volume 1, pp. 31-32, No. 4.
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 6, Anklam 1870, pp. 358-360 .
  4. ^ A b Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft: The community of Benz in the former district of Cammin in Pomerania (2011).
  5. ↑ Brüggemann (1784), p. 33
  6. ↑ Berghaus (1870), p. 398.
  7. ↑ Brüggemann (1784), p. 420.
  8. ↑ Berghaus (1870), p. 420.
  9. ↑ Flemming-Benz (1970), p. 537 ff.
  10. ↑ Flemming-Benz (1970), p. 541.
  11. ↑ Flemming-Benz (1970), p. 262.
  12. ↑ Flemming-Benz (1970), pp. 252-253.
  13. ↑ Flemming-Benz (1970), p. 304.

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '  N , 14 ° 55'  E