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Gut Schmenzin was considered the largest manor in the Belgard district in the Pomeranian administrative district of Köslin . It is located in the village of Smęcino (Schmenzin) in the municipality of Tychowo ( Groß Tychow ) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .
The estate had an area of approx. 15,000 Mg [acres], which corresponds to around 37,500,000 m² [square meters], and served as a fief of the old Prussian noble von Kleist family for several centuries . In 1860 the Gut Gaitberg and in 1863 the Vorwerk Brüggeland were acquired. So it expanded in the northeast to the Principality of Caminer and in the south to the Neustettiner Kreis . In the middle of the 19th century it had a total of 32 outbuildings in addition to the main plant .
According to a legend , the estate was home to an old wooden castle , which was demolished and rebuilt on the neighboring Zarnekow (Czarnkowo) estate .
Major a. D. Theodor von Kleist (1815–1886), member of the Prussian mansion (1854–1867) for the Duchy of Kassuben (Cassuben) , had the house built with a tower-like middle section after a fire from 1854 to 1856. He also planted oaks and linden trees . The subsequent owner, Count Konrad Adolf von Kleist (1839–1900), arranged for a wing to be added on the left and an open or closed veranda on the right in the 1870s . Opposite was a 19th century church , founded in 1734.
After the First World War, the conservative politician Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890–1945) managed his grandmother's estates; In 1921 he inherited the Schmenzin estate. His son Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (1922–2013), who would later become an officer of the Wehrmacht and resistance fighter, was born here. He first began an apprenticeship in agriculture in order to take over his parents' business. In 1944/45 Kleist (senior) was imprisoned as a resistance fighter against National Socialism and executed in Berlin-Plötzensee at the end of the Second World War. In 1945 the Red Army marched into Pomerania. Although intact, the castle was almost completely looted and subsequently to the granary converted.
In the time of the People's Republic of Poland the administration of a state enterprise was housed on the estate. It has now disintegrated.
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, pp. 861-864.
- Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 669-670, No. 67.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 43.6 ″ N , 16 ° 24 ′ 36 ″ E