Jeżyce (Darłowo)
Jeżyce (German Altenhagen, district of Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) in the district of Sławno ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
The farming and church village Jeżyce in the western Sławno district is located 20 kilometers northwest of the district town and 7 kilometers south of the Baltic city of Darłowo . The nearest train station is Darłowo. A side road leads through the village, which connects Darłowo via Pęciszewko ( Petershagen ) and Przystawy ( Pribstow ) with Malechowo ( Malchow ) on state road 6 (former Reichsstraße 2 , today also European road 28 ) Stettin - Danzig . The village lies in a flat valley about 20 meters above sea level. and falls moderately from east to west to the valley of the Grabowa ( Grabow ).
Neighbors are: to the east of the State Forestry Nowy Kraków ( New Krakow ), in the south of the village Jeżycki ( Neuenhagen, Abbey ), west of the forest of Bukowo Morskie ( See Buckow ) and in the north Pęciszewko ( Petershagen ).
Place name
The church and old school were called Petershagen before 1945, although they were in the Altenhagen district. "Altenhagen" still occurs three times as a Pomeranian place name: Altenhagen (Demmin), Altenhagen (Franzburg-Barth / Northern Pomerania) and Altenhagen (Grimmen / Northern Pomerania). The Polish name Jeżyce can be found again as a district of Poznań ( Posen ) (before 1918 and 1939–45: Jersitz, Posen district ).
history
Like many Hagenhufendörfer in the Rügenwalde region, Altenhagen is likely to have originated around 1300 when the Buckow monastery (Bukowo Morskie) was founded. The village was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War .
In 1818 254 inhabitants were registered in Altenhagen. Their number rose to 610 by 1895 and was 584 in 1939.
Until 1945 Altenhagen was with Neuenhagen, Abtei (Jeżycki), Petershagen (Pęciszewko), Pirbstow (Przystawy) and Preetz (Porzecze) a municipality in the district of Petershagen in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . In terms of the registry office , the place also belonged to Petershagen (but the seat of the registry office was Neuenhagen, Abbey), and the district court it was oriented to Rügenwalde .
On March 6, 1945, Russian troops captured Altenhagen. The residents were driven from their homes and had to leave the village for several weeks, finding accommodation in Leikow (Lejkowo). As a result of the Second World War , Altenhagen came under Polish administration under the name Jeżyce and is now part of Gmina Darłowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . In 2006, 272 inhabitants were registered here.
Local division until 1945
Before 1945 there were three places to live in the Altenhagen community:
- Neu Krakow (Forestry Office) (now in Polish Nowy Kraków), east of the village,
- Altenhagen Colony (Kolonia Jeżyce, today united with Nowy Kraków), located at the Neu Krakow Forest,
- Plath (Büdnerhöft), detached farm.
church
Church / parish
Before 1945, Altenhagen belonged to the Petershagen parish with Petershagen, Preetz and Neuenhagen, the abbey and the Pribstow branch church , although the Petershagen church was in the Altenhagen district. It was in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Franz Schroeder .
The majority of the population in Jeżyce has been Catholic since 1945 . On June 15, 1957, the former Protestant parish Petershagen was renamed the Catholic parish Jeżyce, and the former Petsrhagen parish church became the parish church of Jeżyce with the name of "Matka Boska Ostrombramska" (" Our Lady in the Gate of Dawn" ). She belongs to the Deanery Darłowo in the Diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .
The Protestant residents are assigned to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Pastor
If the Protestant pastors did their service as " Petershagener clergy " until 1945 , the Catholic priests now officiate as pastors of Jeżyce:
- Jan Olcoń, 1957-1965
- Józef Rogiński, 1965–1981
- Ludwik Staniszewski, 1981-1983
- Kazimierz Cebula, 1983-1997
- Czesław Krzyżoanowski, 1997–1999
- Janusz Kosłowski, since 1999
school
The old school was called Petershagener Schule, although it was in the Altenhagen district. In 1929/30 a new building was erected in the middle of the village. It was a one-class elementary school with around 60 children. From 1925 to 1945 the school was headed by the last German teacher, Walter Mielke .
literature
- The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989
Web link
Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ' N , 16 ° 24' E