Grabowo (Stettin)

Grabowo (German Grabow ) is a locality in the city of Stettin in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . Grabow formed its own town until it was incorporated into Stettin in 1900.

Drzetowo-Grabowo ( Bredow-Grabow ) district in Szczecin

Geographical location

Grabow is located in Pomerania north of the old town of Szczecin on the western bank of the Oder . The neighboring Szczecin locations are Bolinko ( Grünhof ) in the west and Drzetowo ( Bredow ) in the north .

Administrative structure

Grabowo today forms together with the neighboring Drzetowo ( Bredow ) the district Drzetowo-Grabowo in the urban district Stadtmitte of the urban district Szczecin.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1243, when Duchess Marianne von Pomerania, wife of Duke Barnim I , gave the village of Grabouu to the Cistercian monastery in Stettin , which she founded. In two documents in which Duke Barnim I also confirmed his ownership to the monastery in 1243, the place names Graboho and Grabwa are used. In 1255, Bishop Hermann von Gleichen from Cammin also gave the tithes of Grabow to the Cistercian monastery . A vineyard in Grabow is mentioned for 1278; this is the oldest evidence of viticulture in Pomerania.

After 1342 the village was partly sold again to the Pomeranian Duke. Duke Barnim III. founded the Kartäuserkloster Gottesgnade in Grabow in 1360 . After the Reformation , the monastery was secularized in 1538. After the ducal palace was destroyed in a severe fire in Stettin in 1551, Duke Barnim IX moved it. moved his residence into the rooms of the former Carthusian monastery and expanded it into Oderburg Castle. Duke Barnim IX. kept the castle when he renounced the government in the Treaty of Jasenitz in 1569 and lived here until his death in 1573. Later the castle fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 1677 in the Northern War.

Grabow is located in the part of Pomerania that initially belonged to Swedish Pomerania after the Thirty Years War and came to Brandenburg with the Peace of Stockholm in 1720 .

Cityscape (photo from 2009)

In the 19th century, Grabow, located in the Randow district, developed into a suburb of Stettin with an important shipbuilding industry. The population increased from 1,095 in 1831 to 15,784 in 1895. The village constitution was still in effect until 1847, when Grabow was initially given its own local statute and, in 1853, town rights according to the Prussian town order. Grabow tried since 1808 to incorporate it into Stettin, but this was repeatedly rejected by the Stettin City Council.

The Grabower Zeitung was published from July to September 1881 as the only newspaper that ever appeared in the town of Grabow .

On April 1, 1900, the town of Grabow was incorporated into Stettin, as were the rural communities of Bredow and Nemitz . Since then, Grabow's story has been part of the history of the city of Szczecin .

church

Until 1865 Grabow belonged to the parish of the Stettiner Peter-Paulskirche , whereby since 1854 own church services took place in Grabow. In 1865 a separate parish was created, which found its center in the Friedenskirche, which was built later.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Carl Barandon (1844–1914), German naval officer, most recently vice admiral
• Paul Rowald (1850–1920), German architect and Prussian construction clerk
• Georg Berndt (1880–1972), German measurement technician, physicist and university lecturer

Born after the year of incorporation in Szczecin → List of Sons and Daughters of Szczecin

Personalities who have worked in the place

• Albert Emil Nüscke (1817–1891), shipyard owner in Grabow from 1845
• Johann Christian Nüscke, shipyard owner in Grabow from 1815 to 1845, uncle of Albert Emil Nüscke

literature

• Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Volume 2, Anklam 1865, pp. 1325–1400 ( digitized version )
• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 121.
• Peter Johanek , Franz-Joseph Post (ed.); Thomas Tippach, Roland Lesniak (edit.): City book of Hinterpommern. German City Book, Volume 3, 2. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-018152-1 , pp. 281-282.

Web links

Commons : Grabowo (Szczecin)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 414.
2. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch. Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 415.
3. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch. Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 416.
4. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : The Pomeranian newspapers and magazines in old and new times. Society for Newspaper and Book Printing in Pomerania, 1936, p. 22.
5. ^ Martin Wehrmann : History of the city of Stettin. Leon Saunier's bookstore, Stettin 1911, p. 498. (Reprint: Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-89350-119-3 )
6. ↑ Richard Mans: The Peace Church in Grabow a. O. , Stettin 1890 in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '  N , 14 ° 35'  E