Kawcze (Miastko)

Kawcze
	Kawcze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Pomerania
Powiat :	Bytów
Gmina :	Miastko
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 16 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '6 "  N , 16 ° 53' 8"  E
Residents :	253 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	77-200 Miastko
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	GBY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 206 : Koszalin - Polanów ↔ Miastko
	Żydowo / ext. 205 - Nowy Żelibórz - Świerzno → Kawcze
Rail route :	Piła – Ustka railway line
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kawcze (German Kaffzig , Kashubian Kôwczé ) is a village near the western border of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) in the Bytowski powiat ( Bütow district ).

Geographical location

Kawcze is located on the west bank of the Studnica ( Stüdnitz ), which flows into the Wieprza ( Wipper ) about ten kilometers further north . The voivodship road 206 runs through the place, which connects Koszalin ( Köslin ) and Polanów ( Pollnow ) with Miastko ( Rummelsburg ). In the village, a side road branches off via Świerzno ( Groß Schwirsen ) and Nowy Żelibórz ( Sellberg ) to Żydowo ( Sydow ) on Voivodship road 205 .

Since 1878 Kawcze has been a station on the Piła – Ustka railway line ( Schneidemühl – Stolpmünde ).

history

Kaffzig southeast of the city of Rügenwalde on the Baltic Sea and north of the city of Rummelsburg , on the Schlawe –Rummelsburg railway line , on a map from 1910.

The village of Kaffzig was first mentioned in a document in 1517. In 1590 there are two farmers and two cottages mentioned here , in 1655 there are only two farmers.

When the landlord and peasant relations were regulated, Kaffzig had a manor, three cottages, three farmers and a kossaten.

At the beginning of the 16th century the place was owned by the Lettow family in two parts. A part went to the Massows in 1517 , first as pledging, then as property. In the 17th century, Kaffzig was wholly owned by the Massows , originally as an accessory to Groß Schwirsen (now in Polish: Świerzno), later as an independent property.

In the period that followed, ownership changed frequently. The last owner before 1945 was Martin Grajecki .

In 1812 Kaffzig had 41 inhabitants. Their number rose to 93 by 1843, to 173 by 1871, and in 1905 was already 266. In 1939 it was 486.

Until 1945 Kaffzig was a village in the county Rummelsburg in Administrative district Köslin of the Prussian province of Pomerania . Since 1945, the village has been Polish under the name Kawcze and is now part of Gmina Miastko in Powiat Bytowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship . Between 1945 and 1954 there was an independent Gmina Kwacze in the Powiat Miastecki ( Rummelsburg district ). From 1945 to 1954 the place belonged successively to the voivodeships of Danzig , Stettin , Koszalin and between 1975 and 1998 to the Slupsk voivodeship . There are now 253 inhabitants.

church

Before 1945, the population of Kaffzig was predominantly Protestant . Since 1576 the place was parish in the parish Groß Schwirsen (today Polish: Świerzno), which belonged to the parish of Rummelsburg (Miastko) in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Kawcze has been a Catholic place almost without exception since 1945 . There is also a connection to the - now Catholic - parish Świerzno ( Groß Schwirsen ), which now belongs to the Deanery Polanów ( Pollnow ) in the diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here are parish in the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The nearest branch church is the village church in Wołcza Wielka ( Groß Volz ).

school

In 1769 the children of Kaffzig were still going to school in Groß Schwirsen. In 1813 there was still no school of its own.

In 1937 a teacher taught 64 school children here.

literature

• The district of Rummelsburg. A home book . Hamburg 1979.
• Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania . Part 2, Stettin 1940.

Web links

• Images from Kaffzig
• The cath. Parish of Groß Schwirsen

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017