Izbica (Główczyce)

Izbica (German Giesebitz ) is a village in the powiat Słupski of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Village lane at dusk

Geographical location

Izbica is located in Western Pomerania , about 35 kilometers northeast of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and 8.5 kilometers northeast of Główczyce ( Glowitz ). By the district of the village, a wide stream flows Rojski called the at Izbica in the Lebasee opens.

history

Giesebitz northeast of Stolp on the south bank of Lake Leba on the Baltic Sea (left half of the image, can be enlarged by clicking) on ​​a map from 1910.

The Giesebitz manor used to be a fief of the Stojentin family . The place name Giesebitz was already used in documents from 1518. However, other place names were also in use: Gisbitze (1523), Gesebitze (1529) and Jesebitz (1561). The associated village was laid out as a small alley village. Around 1784 there was a farm and eight farmers in Giesebitz. In 1925 there were 111 houses on the 1,776 hectare community area. In 1939 there were 644 people in 150 households in Giesebitz.

Before the end of the Second World War , the village was the official seat of the district office of Giesebitz in the district of Stolp , administrative district of Köslin , the province of Pomerania .

Towards the end of World War II, the village was occupied by the Red Army on March 9, 1945 and soon afterwards placed under Polish administration. The houses and farmsteads were taken over by newly immigrated Poles as part of Polish expropriation measures. The residents were driven out .

Later, 295 villagers displaced from Giesebitz in the Federal Republic of Germany and 178 in the GDR were identified.

In 2008 the village had 299 inhabitants.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 478–482 ( Giesebitz location description ; PDF)
• 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, p. 965, number 48

Web links

Commons : Izbica (gmina Główczyce)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft: The place of residence Giesebitz in the former district of Stolp (2011).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 482 ( Giesebitz location description ; PDF)

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′  N , 17 ° 26 ′  E