Okonek
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Złotowski | ||
| Gmina : | Okonek | ||
| Area : | 6.01 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 32 ' N , 16 ° 51' E | ||
| Residents : | 3869 (June 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 64-965 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 67 | ||
| License plate : | PZL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK 11 : Kołobrzeg - Bytom | ||
| Rail route : | PKP line 405: Piła – Ustka | ||
| Next international airport : | Poses | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Urban-and-rural parish | ||
| Gmina structure: | 27 localities | ||
| 15 school offices | |||
| Surface: | 325.88 km² | ||
| Residents: | 8557 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 26 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 3031053 | ||
| Administration (as of 2011) | |||
| Mayor : | Andrzej Jasiłek | ||
| Address: | ul. Niepodległości 53 64-965 Okonek |
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| Website : | www.okonek.pl | ||
Okonek ( German Ratzebuhr ) is a small town with a town-and-country municipality in the powiat Złotowski of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Okonek ( Ratzebuhr ) is located in Western Pomerania , about 15 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Neustettin ( Szczecinek ). The place, which extends along state road 11 ( droga krajowa 11 ) with foothills to the west to the somewhat remote train station, can be reached via the trunk road and the parallel railway line. The small river Zarne (Polish: Czarna ) flows through the village .
history
The Duke Barnim IX. von Pomerania-Stettin issued the order in 1554 to settle an official village subordinate to him in the extreme southeast of his dominion on the border with Poland. For the year 1563 it is recorded that a Jakob Woyke held the Schulzenamt. In 1592, the Pomeranian Duke Johann Friedrich granted the fairness of the market for two annual markets. Five years later the right was extended to three markets a year. In 1628 the place had developed into 45 farms, six cottages, two mills and a tavern. With the exception of two farms, everything burned down during the Polish-Swedish war in 1658. In 1663 the new half-timbered church was consecrated.
After Pomerania came under Brandenburg rule in 1653 , Ratzebuhr was administratively subordinate to the Neustettin district.
In 1656 Poles invaded the region under the leader Babomoski, but were repulsed. When the Poles invaded in 1658, Ratzebuhr and the church were completely cremated. In 1748 the city suffered another conflagration.
In 1720 what was then known as an excise station (later tax office) was set up in the city. In order to strengthen the border town against Poland, the Prussian King Friedrich II. Ratzebuhr elevated to a town according to Luebian law in 1754 and induced foreign clothiers to settle there. In 1758, during the Seven Years' War , Russian troops plundered the city. In the years 1781 to 1782, the Deep Bruch west of the city was reclaimed as part of the Prussian drainage program.
When, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, a customs border with the Russian Congress Poland was established again, the Ratzebuhrer cloth makers got into so much economic difficulties that many of them emigrated to Congress Poland. Only with the connection to the railway network in 1878 was the economy able to recover. In addition to the two remaining cloth factories (of the Adler and Saecker families), two sawmills, a brickworks and a furniture factory were established. In 1914 a large mail order nursery was founded, which later expanded to become Europe's largest edelweiss breeding company.
In 1945 Ratzebuhr belonged to the district of Neustettin in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania of the German Empire .
Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . Shortly afterwards, Ratzebuhr - like all of Western Pomerania - was placed under Polish administration. In the following time, the residents were expelled . Ratzebuhr was renamed Okonek .
Population numbers
- 1740: 864
- 1782: 974, including eleven Jews
- 1794: 1029, including 15 Jews
- 1812: 1060, including six Catholics and 47 Jews
- 1816: 1132, including ten Catholics and 74 Jews
- 1831: 1322, including five Catholics and 13 Jews
- 1843: 1579, including six Catholics and 78 Jews
- 1852: 1850, including six Catholics and 99 Jews
- 1861: 2063, including five Catholics and 99 Jews
- 1875: 2248
- 1880: 2432
- 1925: 2611, including 23 Catholics and 30 Jews
- 1933: 2960
- 1939: 2941
Personalities
- Hermann Haken (1828–1916), German politician, had been a district judge in Ratzebuhr since 1857
Town twinning
- Ahrensbök (Germany)
- Stockelsdorf (Germany)
Community structure
The urban and rural community of Okonek includes not only closed towns but also scattered settlements.
Closed localities:
| Surname | German name (until 1945) |
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| Borki | Boats |
| Borucino | Burzen |
| Brokęcino | Bahrenbusch |
| Chwalimie | Wallachsee |
| Ciosaniec | Hasenfier |
| Drzewice | Hohenholz |
| Glinki Mokre | Nassglienke |
| Glinki search | Trockenglienke |
| Lędyczek | Landeck |
| Łomczewo | Lümzow |
| Lotyń | Lottin |
| Lubniczka | Klein Hertzberg |
| Okonek | Ratzebuhr |
| Pniewo | Pinnow |
| Podgaje | Flederborn |
| Węgorzewo Szczecineckie | Vangerow |
Scattered settlements: Anielin ( Karolinenhof ) Babi Dwór ( Babylon ), Brzozówka ( Birkenhof ) Ciosaniec-Bolkowo ( Hasenfier ), Czersk ( Marienwalde ) Kruszka ( Kruschke ) Lubnica ( United Hertzberg ) Lubnicki Młyn Przybysław ( Ewaldshof ) Rydzynka ( Krügershof ), Skoki ( mosquito mill ), Wojnówko.
literature
- Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania - outline of their history, mostly according to documents . Berlin 1865, pp. 320–321 ( full text )
- Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Cößlin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 707-711.
Web links
- Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The town of Ratzebuhr in the former Neustettin district in Pomerania (2011).
- City website (Polish)
- Website about the city
Footnotes
- ↑ a b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Julius Adolph Wilcke: Chronicle of the city of Neustettin - based on documented and official sources . Eckstein, Neustettin 1862, p. 35.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Kratz (1865), pp. 320–321.
- ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustettin.html # ew39nsttaratzeb. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ http://stadt.ratzebuhr.kreis-neustettin.de/
