Karznica

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Karznica
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Karznica (Poland)
Karznica
Karznica
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Slupsk
Gmina : Potęgowo
Geographic location : 54 ° 27 '  N , 17 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 26 '56 "  N , 17 ° 21' 38"  E
Residents : 203 (2006)
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GSL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK6 : Szczecin - Gdansk
Rail route : Railway line Gdańsk – Stargard
Railway station: Strzyżyno Słupskie (5 km)
Next international airport : Danzig



Karznica (German Wendisch Karstnitz , 1938–45 Ramnitz , Kasch. Kaszëbskô Karznica ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Potęgowo ( Pottangow ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp district ).

Geographical location and transport links

Karznica is located in Western Pomerania , about 23 kilometers east of Słupsk ( Stolp ) in a plain between the rivers Stolpe (Słupia) and Lupow (Łupawa) on the river Rambow ( Rębowa ), which runs through the place from south to north and a short time later into the Lupow flows.

In a west-east direction, the Polish state road 6 (former German Reichsstraße 2 , today also European road 28 ), which connects the German-Polish border at Kołbaskowo ( Kolbitzow ) and Stettin with Danzig and further on Pruszcz Gdański ( Praust ), runs through the village . The nearest train station is Strzyżyno Słupskie ( Stresow ), five kilometers away, on the state railway line from Gdańsk to Stargard .

Place name

Before 1945 there were two places called Karstnitz in the Stolp district . They were only about eight kilometers apart and were distinguished from one another by the addition of "German" or "Wendish". Between 1938 and 1945 Deutsch Karstnitz (now Polish: Karżniczka) carried the official name "Karstnitz", while Wendisch Karstnitz (now Polish: Karznica) was renamed "Ramnitz".

history

Wendisch Karstnitz manor house

According to the historical form of the village, Wendisch Karstnitz (previously written Wendisch Carstnitz ) was a small alley village . From 1531–1724 it was owned by the Chorken family and then became the property of the Grumbkow family . The Minister of State Philipp Otto von Grumbkow sold Wendisch Karstnitz in 1733 to Joachim Ehrenreich von Kettelhack , from whom it passed to the Kleist family .

To 1784 Wendisch Karstnitz a Vorwerk , six farmers, two Kossäten , a forge and a schoolmaster at a total of 15 households.

In 1803 the Krockow family acquired the estate, from which it passed to the Wedel family in 1855 and then to Alexander von Livonius and his son Artur von Livonius . The 850 hectare estate was last owned by the Lehmann family before 1945 .

In 1910 Wendisch Karstnitz had 294 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 462. And in 1939 the place then called Ramnitz had 425 inhabitants.

Before 1945 belonged to the municipality Wendisch Karstnitz resp. Ramnitz the two districts of Rambow (now Polish: Rębowo ) and Velsow ( Wieliszewo ). The municipality was the seat of the official and registry office district of the same name , in which the municipalities of Alt Damerow (Stara Dąbrowa ), New Damerow (Nowa Dąbrowa ) and Sochow ( Żochowo ) were incorporated. It was located in the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Towards the end of the Second World War , in the evening hours of March 8, 1945, Soviet troops occupied Ramnitz. Here they set up a supply base. When the Red Army withdrew from the village in 1950, Poles occupied the village. Without exception , the German population was expelled . The Polish name Karznica was derived from the German place name Wendisch Karstnitz or Ramnitz . The village now belongs to the Gmina Potęgowo in the powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975 to 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). Karznica, which had 203 inhabitants in 2006, is the seat of a Schulzenamt , in which the village Rębowo ( Rambow ) is integrated.

church

In Wendisch Karstnitz or Ramnitz a majority lived before 1945 Protestant population. The village belonged to the parish of Lupow (now Polish: Łupawa) in the church district of Stolp-Altstadt in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Gerhard Gehlhoff .

Since 1945 the residents of Karznica have been almost without exception Catholic . The connection to the - now Catholic - parish seat Łupawa ( Lupow ) has remained, but the parish now belongs to the newly formed deanery Łupawa in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here are now assigned to the parish of the Kreuzkirche parish in Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Wendisch Karstnitz had a schoolmaster as early as 1784. The 1932 three-tier elementary school was located in the district of Rambow (now in Polish: Rębowo). Two teachers taught 90 school children in three classes.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

Commons : Wendisch Karstnitz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 948, No. 15.