Rabbit fur (postomino)

Kanin (German Kannin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in the district of Sławno ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

Kanin is located in the northeast of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, 12 kilometers (as the crow flies) north-northwest of Sławno ( Schlawe ) and 10 kilometers south of the Baltic Sea coast . The voivodship road 203 ( Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Postomino ( Pustamin ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde )) runs close to the north of the place. The landscape of Kanin forms a flat undulating plain, in the south the river Wieprza ( Wipper ) runs in a wide arc around the village.

Neighboring municipalities of Kanin are: in the west Kowalewice ( Alt Kugelwitz ) and Kowalewiczki ( Neu Kugelwitz ), in the north Wszedzień ( Scheddin ) and Masłowice ( Masselwitz ), in the east and south Stary Kraków ( Alt Krakow ).

history

In 1230, Kannin (also: Cannin ) is called when it was given over to the Order of St. John along with some other villages . In 1442 the place fell to the ducal office of Rügenwalde . Around 1780 the following are mentioned: 1 free school, 8 farmers, 1 country estate, 1 schoolhouse, 1 blacksmith, 1 Büder and 1 shepherd's hut with a total of 14 fire places.

On March 7, 1945, the Red Army penetrated the village from the direction of Karzin (now Polish: Karsino). Ten days later, all male residents are first transported to Schönenberg (Bylica), then via Schlawe and Stolp to Graudenz , many of them further to Russia . The female residents are brought to Zollbrück (Korzybie), but most of them can return home in May. From July 1945 Poles took possession of the farms and houses, and on November 13th the German population began to be expelled from the town.

Until 1945, Kannin was together with Alt Krakow (Stary Kraków) and Meitzow (Mazów) a municipality in the administrative district of Alt Krakow in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . Even in a civil ceremony , the three municipalities of Old Krakow were connected. District court area was Schlawe .

Today, under the name Kanin, Kannin is a district of Gmina Postomino in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

church

The residents of Kannin were predominantly Protestant until 1945 . The village belonged to the parish Alt Krakow in the parish of Rügenwalde of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Pastor Erich Kramer was the last German clergyman .

Almost without exception, the population of Kanin has been Roman Catholic since 1945 . But even today the place belongs to Stary Kraków , where a - now Catholic - parish was founded, which is incorporated into the Darłowo deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members now belong to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945 there was an elementary school in Kannin, in which eight classes were taught by a teacher in one room. The average number of students was 30. The school building was built in 1848.

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989

Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 35'  E