Czarnowęsy

Czarnowęsy
	Czarnowęsy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Białogard
Gmina :	Białogard
Geographic location :	53 ° 56 '  N , 16 ° 0'  O coordinates: 53 ° 56 '0 "  N , 16 ° 0' 0"  O
Residents :	306 ()
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZBI
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Białogard – Stargard
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów

Czarnowęsy [ tʃarnɔ'vɛ̃sɨ ] ( German  Zarnefanz ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Białogard (municipality of Belgard) in the powiat Białogardzki (Belgarder district) .

Geographical location

Czarnowęsy is eight kilometers south of Białogard in the valley of the Mogilica ( Muglitz ) and north of the Gora Płakosz ( courtier height) with its 590 meters. Until 1945 the place was connected to the Berlin  - Stettin  - Danzig railway line with its own station , today the train stops in Rąbino ( Groß Rambin ) and in Białogard. In terms of road traffic, Czarnowęsy is accessible by the side road from Białogard to Rąbino via Gruszewo ( Grüssow ).

Surname

The German name "Zarnefanz" is of Wendish origin and means "black snake". The name probably comes from the fact that centuries ago on the western bank of the Muglitz a mire overgrown with alders stretched like a snake for kilometers.

history

Zarnefanz is said to have been founded in the middle of the 15th century. The Vorwerk Hechthausen , which used to be an independent property of the von Hechthausen family , belonged to the estate and farming village . Zarnefanz once belonged to the President of the Court of Justice von Münchow , who bequeathed it to his son, District Administrator von Münchow. From this the property went to Charlotte von Ackermann nee von Münchow.

In 1800 Zarnefanz was sold to Hans von Winterfeld , who was followed by numerous changing owner families until the property came into the hands of the von der Lühe .

In 1939 the 1180.2 hectare community had 265 inhabitants in 67 households. In addition to the manor there were 15 larger and numerous smaller farms.

Zarnefanz belonged to the district of the registry office Lenzen and the district court area Belgard . The last German mayor was Richard Neitzel.

At the beginning of March 1945, Red Army troops penetrated Zarnefanz. The villagers were evicted . The place came into Polish hands with the name Czarnowęsy and is now part of the rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Białogard.

Zarnefanz Office

The communities Boissin , Naffin , Ristow and Zarnefanz formed the Zarnefanz district in the Belgard district (Persante) .

church

Parish

Zarnefanz formed with Naffin to 1945 a separate parish and was one of the parishes Lenzen and Boissin the parish Lenzen in the church district Belgard in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The von der Lühe family held the church patronage for Zarnefanz.

The parish of Lenzen counted parishioners in 1940 2019, of which 570 belonged to the parish of Zarnefanz.

Today Czarnowęsy belongs to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Village church

The Zarnefanzer church was a simple half-timbered building with a clapboard-roofed tower, which had to be demolished in 1960 due to dilapidation. The oldest church bell was cast in 1556. The furnishings included a brass baptismal bowl that the landlord of Hechthausen had given the church as a gift.

school

Fritz Drawer was the last German teacher to teach at the one-class elementary school in Zarnefanz.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Waldemar von Puttkamer-Kolziglow (1835–1903), German manor owner and member of the German Reichstag

literature

• Belgard County. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. ed. from the home district committee Belgard-Schivelbein, Celle 1989.

Web links

• Zarnefanz in the Belgard-Schivelbein home district

Footnotes

1. ^ Website of the powiat Białogardzki, Czarnowęsy , accessed on February 16, 2013