Jarosławiec (Postomino)

Jarosławiec (German Jershöft ) is a fishing village and seaside resort on the Baltic Sea in Western Pomerania . Today it is located in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in the district of Sławno ( Schlawe ). The landmark of the place is a lighthouse that can be seen from afar .

Geographical location

View of Jarosławiec (2007)

Jarosławiec is located 28 kilometers north of the district town of Sławno and 20 kilometers northeast of Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ). The place can be reached via two spur roads, from the coastal road from Drozdowo ( Drosedow , on the voivodship road (DW) 203 ) via Rusinowo ( Rützenhagen ) or from Zaleskie ( Saleske ) (also on the DW 203) via Królewo ( Krolow ) branch off.

The Jarosławiec district is bordered in the north by the Baltic Sea, in the east by Wicko Morskie ( Vietzkerstrand ) on Jezioro Wicko ( Vietzker See ), in the south by Jezierzany ( Neuenhagen Amt ), in the south by Naćmierz ( Natzmershagen ) and in the west by Rusinowo ( Rützenhagen) ).

Jarosławiec is located on a marl boulder, which has been washed away by the Baltic Sea and therefore slopes down to the water as a loamy cliff (22 meters above sea level). The diversity of the landscape is delightful, alternating between steep coast and flat sand dunes, tall pines and low shrubbery, wide beach, pastures, flowering heather and dark moor.

Place name

The place names Jershöft (formerly also Jarshovde and Jarshöfde ) and also Jarosławiec can be traced back to a bearer of the name Jaroslaw, who perhaps laid out the village or who lived here as the first landlord. In the vernacular, Jershöft was also called Röwershof in the past , which may allude to the Low German word for “robbing” (of stranded ships or just of flotsam).

Fishing boats in Jarosławiec (2008)

history

The oldest history of Jershöft has not been passed down. The village belonged to the Rügenwalde office . In 1508 the duke settled a dispute between the town of Rügenwalde and the fishermen from Jershöft and Vitte (now Polish: Wicie). In 1775 there was a border dispute between Jershöft and Rützenhagen (Rusinowo). In 1784 the village had: eleven farmers, seven street farmers and three Büdner (including a schoolmaster) with a total of 24 fireplaces.

In 1818 there were 151 inhabitants registered in Jershöft. Their number rose to 283 by 1885.

The municipality received a considerable increase in income from tourism. In 1865 Jershöft became one of the oldest Prussian seaside resorts. Even before the First World War , the fishing village had gained in importance as a resort. The first people to build weekend houses here even came from Schlawe. Artists like the painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff also liked to stay here. In 1939 the village of 327 souls counted 2,000 bathers!

Until 1945 Jershöft was in the district of Neuenhagen Amt (Jezierzany) in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. incorporated in the administrative district of Köslin of the Prussian province of Pomerania . The competent registry office was in Natzmershagen (Naćmierz), the district court in Schlawe .

Jarosławiec lighthouse (2007)

On March 9, 1945 at 12.30 p.m. the Red Army entered the village. The female population was transferred to work in Vietzkerstrand (Wicko Morskie), Neu Warschow (Warszkówko), Groß Schlönwitz (Słonowice) and Franzen (Wrząca). The men were abducted. From 1 October, the farms were taken over by Polish settlers, on November 27 took place the expulsion of the German population. Jershöft became Polish and today as Jarosławiec is part of the Gmina Postomino in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). Today the place has 327 inhabitants.

church

Jershöft did not have its own church before 1945. The inhabitants were all Protestant and belonged to the parish Rützenhagen (Rusinowo) in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In the war years up to 1945, Pastor Franz Birken from Barzwitz (Barcowice) was the last German pastor here.

Since 1945 the majority of the population of Jarosławiec has belonged to the Catholic Church . In 1989, a separate house of worship was built in the place called the Transfiguration of the Lord . It is a branch church of the parish Łącko ( Lanzig ) in the deanery Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here belong to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Jershöft had a one-class elementary school before 1945. The last German headmaster was teacher Gustav Ramlow . At that time, the office of teacher also included land, the Sculwiese . After the First World War, the teacher still had two cows.

The lighthouse

The landmark of the east is the 33.3 meter high lighthouse (Latarnia Morska), which used to belong to the - now dismantled - windmill. With its 50.20 kilometers long flashing beacon, it is the strongest lighthouse on the Baltic Sea coast between the two neighboring lighthouses in Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) and Ustka ( Stolpmünde ), with a fog horn and machine buildings, with a fire brigade and rescue station (before 1945, the inhabitants had the horse owners were to make the animals available to the rescue station of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People to transport the lifeboat).

An illuminated sign (torch) is mentioned for the first time near Jershöft in 1818. The current lighthouse was built in 1856 (Polish sources speak of 1829) and rebuilt in 1902.

literature

Ostseebad Jershöft, district of Schlawe i. Pom. Albert Mewes, Rügenwalde around 1914 ( digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library)
The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989
Johannes Hinz, Pomerania. Lexicon , Würzburg 2001
Jershöft. A pearl of natural beauty on the Baltic Sea beach , in: Ut Schloag, No. 11, 1952
Ruth Medger-Hamerla, Jershöft artists' colony , in: From the home of Rügenwalde, 1981

Web links

Jershöft in the home district of Schlawe