Gałąźnia Wielka

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Gałąźnia Wielka (Poland)
Gałąźnia Wielka
Gałąźnia Wielka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Bytów
Gmina : Kołczygłowy
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 17 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '2 "  N , 17 ° 19' 8"  E
Residents : 388 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 77-140 Kołczygłowy
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GBY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Danzig



Gałąźnia Wielka (German Groß Gansen ) is a village is a village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Kołczygłowy (community Alt Kolziglow) in the powiat Bytowski (Bütower district) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 27 kilometers southeast of the city of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and 38 kilometers southwest of the city of Lębork ( Lauenburg i. Pom. ).

history

The aristocratic village of Groß Gansen used to be a fief of the Zitzewitz family . According to the Zitzewitz family chronicle, the village was already owned by Jarislaw von Zitzewitz before 1410. Around 1784 Groß Gansen consisted of two parts, A and B, with a total of two farms, ten farmers, six cottages , a lumberjack's cottage and 26 households on the field of the village. Groß Gansen A, which accounted for a farm, eight farmers and the wood-keeper's cottage, was owned by Friedrich George Ernst von Zitzewitz at the time. Groß Gansen B with a farm, two farmers and three cottages belonged to the Goschen manor and was owned by Lieutenant Friedrich Franz von Zitzewitz at the time.

At the end of the 18th century, the Zitzewitz family, who had previously lived at Gut Goschen, moved their residence to Groß Gansen. This branch of the family died out in the 19th century because Heinrich von Zitzewitz had remained childless. He sold his goods to his cousin Friedrich Karl von Zitzewitz in Muttrin in 1877 and moved to Stolp, where he died in 1885.

After the First World War , Georg von Zitzewitz took over the Groß Gansen estate in the second generation . He was politically active as a member of the German National People's Party and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives. Before the NSDAP came to power , he was a member of the Reichstag for a short time .

Before the end of the Second World War , Groß Gansen belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin in the Pomerania province . The parish area was 1,583 hectares. In addition to the village of Groß Gansen, the community also included the residential areas Goschen, Bergland, Hermannshöh, Solution, Paschke (Piaschke), Pranitz, Steggen, Windmühle and Zitzenkaten. In 1925 there were 70 residential buildings in Groß Gansen. In addition to the estate, there were 45 farms in the village. In 1939 a total of 129 households and 546 inhabitants were counted.

Towards the end of World War II, the region was captured by the Red Army on March 9, 1945 . Groß Gansen was one of the few villages in the Stolp district that could be completely evacuated before the front approached. Some villagers managed to escape from Gotenhafen by ship across the Baltic Sea . Many were overrun by the Soviet Army and returned. After the whole of Western Pomerania was placed under Polish administration after the end of the war, the houses and farms were confiscated and the villagers were expelled .

Later 193 villagers from Groß Gansen were identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 186 in the GDR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Road map PL 003: Western Pomerania. Stolp - Köslin - Gdansk. 9th edition, Höfer Verlag, Dietzenbach 2005, ISBN 978-3-931103-14-9 , grid square H5.
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 516 ( description of the place Groß Gansen ; PDF)