Klępczewo

Klępczewo (German name: Klemzow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) in the powiat Świdwin .

Geographical location

Klępczewo is located four kilometers west of Świdwin on the provincial road # 172. Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) - Barwice ( Bärwalde ) - Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ) - Swidwin ( Schivelbein ) - Starogard ( Stargordt ) - ( Resko ( rain forest )). The nearest train station is Świdwin on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

Local history

Klemzow was first mentioned in a document in 1499: Elector Joachim von Brandenburg and his brother Albrecht enfeoffed Klemzow, Lankow (Polish: Łąkowo) and part of Wopersnow (Oparzno) in Schivelbein Hennink and Lüdecke . In 1564, the marriage between Joachim von Klemzow and Margarethe von Manteuffel was founded here.

In 1700 Klemzow was owned by the von Beneckendorff family , and in 1760 the estate belonged to Lieutenant Carl von Beneckendorff. During this time of the Seven Years' War Klemzow suffered badly from the passage of Prussian and Russian troops.

In 1843 the village had 202 inhabitants, in 1939 187 people lived here, almost all of them working in agriculture. The community area was then 1000.4 hectares. The only commercial enterprise on site was a starch factory.

Until 1932 Klemzow was in the district of Schivelbein, until it was incorporated into the district of Belgard (Persante) . Klemzow belonged to the district and registry office district Wopersnow in the district court area Schivelbein .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Klemzow was occupied by Red Army troops on March 3, 1945 . After the end of the war, the region was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania. The German village of Klemzow was renamed Klępczewo . The resident German population was expelled from the village by around 1947 , citing the so-called Bierut decrees and replaced by immigrating Poles .

The village of Klępczewo ( Klemzow ) is now part of the Polish rural community ( Gmina ) Świdwin ( Schivelbein ).

Development of the population

• 1820: approx. 150
• 1852: 214

church

Parish

Until 1945 Klemzow was an independent parish, with the parish Wopersnow and Lankow the parish formed Wopersnow. It belonged to the church district Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Kurt Lemke.

Today Klępczewo belongs to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Village church

Klemzow owned a half-timbered church made of oak from the 17th century with a rectangular floor plan and a roof that was hipped on both sides. The church was surrounded by a churchyard and a cemetery wall.

The pulpit was placed on the masonry altar table towards the end of the 18th century. The parents of the former Reich President Paul von Hindenburg (Robert von Beneckendorff and Schwickart, née von Hindenburg and Luise) were buried in the basement of the church .

The two church bells, which had to be delivered during the First World War , were marked with the inscriptions " vB " and " v.Hin. " (Von Beneckendorf / von Hindenburg).

The church was demolished after 1945.

school

The one-class elementary school in Klemzow was headed by teacher and organist Otto Bartelt until 1925. His successor was Wendt teacher.

literature

• Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee (ed.): The Belgard district. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.

Footnotes

1. ^ New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state (Alexander August Mützell, ed.). Volume 2, Halle 1821, p. 347 .
2. ^ Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state (Kraatz, ed.). Berlin 1856, p. 295 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '  N , 15 ° 42'  E