Karwice (Malechowo)

Karwice
	Karwice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Malechowo
Geographic location :	54 ° 20 '  N , 16 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '51 "  N , 16 ° 33' 45"  E
Residents :	440 ()
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK37 Darłowo –Karwice
	DK6 Slupsk - Koszalin
Rail route :	Slupsk – Koszalin
Next international airport :	Danzig

Karwice (German Karwitz ) is a village in Poland in the rural municipality Malechowo (Malchow) in the Powiat Sławieński (Schlawe district) of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Karwice is located in Western Pomerania , nine kilometers west of the district town of Sławno . Karwice is bordered by the towns of Malechowo (Malchow) in the west, Słowino (Schlawin) and Boleszewo (Rötzenhagen) in the north, Rzyszczewo (Ristow) in the east and Smardzewo (Schmarsow) , Żegocino (Segenthin) and Paproty (Parpart) in the south.

The flat terrain of the district rises from about 30 m above sea level in the north over a distance of 6 km to about 60 m in the south.

Place name

The place name Karwitz is of Slavic origin and still occurs today in Wendland in Lower Saxony and, as a former German name, also in the Pomeranian district of Dramburg . The latter village also bears the name Karwice in Polish, which also occurs in the Łódź Voivodeship .

history

The original Angerdorf , which has developed into the Gutsdorf, was once a casket of the Dukes of Pomerania . In 1539 they exchanged it for Drosedow (today in Polish Drozdowo) to Jochen Grape . It should have been only a part of Karwitz, because as early as 1450 a Claus Grape is mentioned as the owner who goes back to the "olden Gerdt" (around 1400), who is said to have established the family of von Grape on Karwitz.

In 1775 the estate went from those of Grape to von Billerbeck , then to von Steinkeller , and in 1862 it belonged to the Grützmacher family .

In 1818 there were 281 inhabitants in Karwitz. Their number rises to 444 in 1885, and to 694 in 1939.

Until 1945, Karwitz belonged to the Malchow district (now Malechowo in Polish), was also oriented to the registry office there , and was located in the Schlawe district court area . It belonged to the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Before the Red Army advanced into the village on March 6, 1945 , its residents tried to flee to the west. However, their trek was run over and looted. The Karwitzer had to turn back again; many people were deported to Russia. In the summer of 1945 the native German population began to be expelled . Karwitz became part of Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the Koszalin Voivodeship , since 1999 West Pomeranian Voivodeship , as 'Karwice' .

Development of the population

• 1820: approx. 275
• 1885: 444
• 1839: 694

Local breakdown before 1945

Before 1945 the localities belonged to the municipality of Karwitz

1. Karlsau (Polish: Miłomyśl, Vorwerk , independent since 1904, located 2 km north of Karwitz),
2. Erlenhof (Sęczkowo, 50 ha farm, north of the Karwitz train station),
3. Karwitzer Mühle (Karw, 2 km south, former windmill, converted into a moor mill),
4. Neu Karwitz (Karwiczki, new settlement, created by dividing the village, 13 farms with 220 ha),
5. Karwitz train station (Karwice Dworzec, 2 km north of the village, station building, 3 railway houses, 2 farms, 5 private houses).

church

Village church

The late Gothic church made of bricks and field stones is built on a rectangular floor plan. It has no choir extension. On the north side there is an extension with a crypt . The upper part of the tower is made of wood and has a four-sided, eight-sided helmet .

After the war, the church, in which Protestant worship had been celebrated for over 400 years, was expropriated and taken over by the Polish Catholic Church. On March 19, 1975, the church was re-consecrated and dedicated to St. Joseph .

Evangelical parish

Karwitz is a parish connected with (Alt) Malchow (Polish: Malechowo) since 1646 , but previously an independent church. Until 1945 it belonged to the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania with only Protestant residents . The church patronage was incumbent on the landowner, but in the last years before 1945 the place was free of patronage. The last German clergyman with official residence in Malchow was Pastor Otto Nitschalk .

Protestant residents still living in Karwice today are assigned to the parish office in Koszalin (Köslin) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic parish

The current population of Karwice is almost without exception of the Roman Catholic denomination. Karwice is today - like the parish Boleszewo (Rötzenhagen) - a branch parish in the parish Słowino (Schlawin) in the dean's office Darłowo in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .

school

The Karwitzer Schule was two-class until 1945 with up to 100 children. It was originally housed in the teacher's house before its own building was built in 1909. The last German school principals were the teachers Thomas, Buss, Giese and Horn .

traffic

The village is located on Landesstraße 6 (=  Europastraße 28 ), the former German Reichsstraße 2 . The state road 37 has been branching off here since 2006, proving to be an important and busy feeder to the Baltic Sea near Darłowo (Rügenwalde) and replacing the previous road via Słowino (Schlawin) and Rusko (Rußhagen) .

Karwice has its own train station on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

• Franz Pieper (1852–1931), German-American Lutheran theologian, President of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states

literature

• M. Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district - A Pomeranian home book. Volume 1: The circle as a whole . Husum 1986, ISBN 3-88042-239-7 ; Volume 2: The cities and rural communities. Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-337-7 .
• Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2, Stettin 1912.

Web link

• Karwitz in the home district of Schlawe

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of Gmina Malechowo, Miejscowości - Karwice [Karwitz ], accessed on September 17, 2013
2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann (ed.): Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 868 .
3. ↑ Alexander August Mützell, Ed .: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2, Halle 1821, p. 309, no. 1289–1291.