Gawroniec (Połczyn-Zdrój)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | West Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Świdwin | ||
| Gmina : | Połczyn-Zdrój | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 40 ' N , 16 ° 1' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 94 | ||
| License plate : | ZSD | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DW173: Drawsko Pomorskie - Połczyn-Zdrój | ||
| Next international airport : | Szczecin-Goleniów | ||
Gawroniec (German Gersdorf ) is a village near Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 100 kilometers east of Stettin and 21 kilometers southeast of Świdwin (Schivelbein) . The region belongs to the landscape of Pomeranian Switzerland .
history
Gawroniec is an old church village that used to belong to a manor. On the outskirts of the village there was a Vorwerk and a stately manor house. In the 19th century the estate was owned by a branch of the Borcke family. Until the settlement of the manorial and rural conditions at the beginning of the 19th century, the jurisdiction of the village, which at that time still belonged to the province of Neumark, was in the hands of the landowner.
The village had belonged to the Dramburg district until 1945 . The parish was a branch of the parish of Wusterwitz.
Towards the end of World War II , the region was conquered and occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . Shortly after the end of the war, the region was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania. Gersdorf was renamed Gawroniec . The German inhabitants were from their village to about 1,947 displaced .
Development of the population
- 1815: approx. 110
- 1852: approx. 320
Personalities: sons and daughters of the place
- Georg Matthias von Borcke (1671–1740), District Administrator of the Dramburg District and Chancellor of Neumark
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcke (1693–1769), privy councilor and minister in Brandenburg-Prussia and in Hessen-Kassel
- Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke (1704–1747), statesman in the Prussian service and literary translator
- Philipp August Wilhelm von Werther (1729–1802), Prussian lieutenant general and chief of the 6th Dragoon Regiment
- Georg Ehrenreich von Werther (1742–1816), Prussian major general and chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 12
- Otto Dann (1937–2014), German historian, professor at the University of Cologne
Footnotes
- ^ Complete topography of the Mark Brandenburg (Anton Friedrich Büsching, ed.). Berlin 1775, p. 93 .
- ^ New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state (Alexander August Mützel, ed.). Halle 1821, p. 24
- ^ Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state (Kraatz, ed.). Berlin 1856, p. 178 .