Gwiazdowo (Sławno)

Gwiazdowo
	Gwiazdowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Sławno
Area :	13.93  km²
Geographic location :	54 ° 18 '  N , 16 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '27 "  N , 16 ° 44' 50"  E
Residents :	340
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Danzig

Gwiazdowo [ ɡvjazˈdɔvɔ ] (German Quäsdow , until 1928 Groß Quäsdow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the powiat Sławieński ( Sławno district ).

Geographical location

The farming village of Gwiazdowo is located seven kilometers southeast of Sławno on the border between the West Pomeranian and Pomeranian Voivodeships (formerly the border between the districts of Schlawe and Rummelsburg ). From the voivodship road 205 (towards Bobolice ( Bublitz )) branches off in Pomiłowo ( Marienthal ) a side road towards Łętowo ( Lantow ), on which Gwiazdowo can be reached after a few kilometers. The place is a train station on PKP line no. 418 from Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) via Sławno to Korzybie ( Zollbrück ). The station is about two kilometers away on the edge of the Wieprza ( Wipper ) valley .

Gwiazdowo is located in a slight hollow on the north-south ridge of 60 meters above sea level, whose wooded slopes drop to the west to the glacial valley of the Rakówka ( Krebsbach ) and to the north to the glacial valley of the Wieprza to about 20 meters.

Neighboring places of Gwiazdowo are: in the west Kwasowo ( Quatzow ), in the north beyond the Wieprza Tychowo ( Wendisch Tychow ), in the east and south Żukowo ( Suckow ) with Brzeście ( Hohenzollerndorf ) and Dąbrowiec ( Bornemannshof ).

Place name

The name Quäsdow has been used unchanged since time immemorial. It should be of Wendish origin. Since the Middle Ages, a distinction has been made between large and small Quäsdow (a district of Quäsdow until 1945). The community name Quäsdow for Groß Quäsdow was only introduced in 1928.

The Polish name refers to the word gwiazda = star . The place name Gwiazdowo occurs three times in Poland.

history

Similar to the neighboring communities Lantow (now Polish Łętowo) and Suckow (Żukowo), Quäsdow may have originally been owned by the Order of St. John . But then it belonged to the von Bonin family , as their relative, Tetzlav Bonin auf Lantow with 40 horses, entered the service of the Teutonic Order in 1390 . After 1486 Quäsdow was briefly owned by the von Massow family .

In 1506 the Pomeranian chancellor and ducal bailiff of Rügenwalde received half of Franzen (Wrząca), Egsow (Kczewo), Kummerzin (Komorczyn), Dubberzin (Dobrzęcino) and Groß Schlönwitz (Słonowice) in exchange for the villages of Wendisch Tychow (Tychowo) and Quäsdow.

Around 1652, Henning von pieces from Reblin on Klein Quäsdow was briefly named as the feudal owner , who probably inherited it from his mother - a von Kleist from Wendisch Tychow. Around 1680/90 Adam von Podewils auf Krangen (Krąg) inherited or bought the entire Zitzwitz rule of Varzin (Warcino) through his marriage to Clara von Zitzewitz , to which also large and small Quäsdow belonged. After marrying Countess Auguste Friederike von Podewils , the later Count Werner von Blumenthal came into possession in 1805, whereby his son sold the Jannewitz (Janiewice) estate with Suckow, Lantow, Groß and Klein Quäsdow to Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1874 . In 1931 the princes sold the rulers' agricultural land (including Groß Quäsdow with 402 hectares and Klein Quäsdow with 68 hectares) to the Pomeranian Settlement Society for the purpose of resettlement.

In 1818 there were 86 inhabitants in Groß Quäsdow, in 1885 there were 305, and in 1939 (with Klein Quäsdow) 450.

In March 1945, Red Army troops entered the village. Some residents had fled beforehand but were forced to return home. In mid-1945 Poles took over the German farms, and on May 23 and 24, 1946, most of the German families were deported.

By 1945 Quäsdow was combined with Jannewitz, Lantow and Suckow to form the district and registry office district Suckow in the district court area of Schlawe. It belonged to the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . Gwiazdowo has been in Polish hands since 1945 and is now part of the Gmina Sławno in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Słupsk Voivodeship ).

Local breakdown before 1945

Until 1945 there were three villages and residential areas in the Quäsdow community:

1. Klein Quäsdow (Polish: Gwiazdówko ), former, settled manor with the Princely Hohenzollern Forestry, with some forest workers' houses. A hardware factory had been set up on the estate. In 1818 only 29 inhabitants lived in Klein Quäsdow, their number rose to 90 in 1905, after 1928 it was incorporated into Quäsdow
2. Quäsdow (train station) , railway station on the Reichsbahn line No. 111q (1940) Rügenwalde – Schlawe – Zollbrück , located on the edge of the Wippertal, immediately north of Klein Quäsdow, whose Polish name " Gwiazdówko " was the PKP station until the rails were dismantled and abandoned the route carried.
3. Quäsdow (steam sawmill) , a former sawmill, destroyed by lightning in the 1930s

church

Before 1945, the population of Quäsdow was predominantly of Protestant denomination. The village belonged with Jannewitz, Lantow and Suckow to the parish of Suckow, and the Suckow village church was the central church. The parish belonged to the church district Schlawe in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union .

The few Roman Catholic residents visited their parish church before 1945, the St. Antonius Church in Schlawe, built in 1928. When the Catholic population increased sharply after 1945, the regulation remained until 1957. Then, however, a separate parish was established in Żukowo ( Suckow ), whose church now - as before 1945 for the Evangelicals - became the central church of the Catholics. She belongs to the deanery Sławno in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Living today in Gwiazdowo Protestant residents are parishioners of the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania-Wielkopolska the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945 there was a one-class elementary school in Quäsdow. The last German teacher was Walter Damitz . Gwiazdowo still has a school today.

literature

• Manfred Vollack (editor): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . Ed .: Home District Schlawe. Husum Druck, Husum, ISBN 978-3-88042-239-1 (2 volumes, 1988/1989).