Gałąźnia Mała

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Gałąźnia Mała (Poland)
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Gałąźnia Mała
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Bytów
Gmina : Kołczygłowy
Geographic location : 54 ° 17 ′  N , 17 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 21 ″  N , 17 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  E
Residents : 134 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 77-140 Kołczygłowy
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GBY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Danzig



Gałąźnia Mała (German Klein Gansen , Kashubian Môłô Gałązniô ) is a village in the powiat Bytowski ( Stolp district ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Gałąźnia Mała is located in Western Pomerania , about 28 kilometers southeast of the city of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and 17 kilometers northwest of the city of Bytów ( Bütow ). The village is located in the glacial valley of the Słupia ( Stolpe ), which flows through the center of the locality.

history

Klein Gansen was one of the oldest fiefdoms of the Zitzewitz family . Jarislaw von Zitzewitz is named as the first landowner of this name in Klein Gansen for the period 1360-1412. In 1568 Lucas von Zitzewitz settled here, to whom the first so-called Klein Gansener branch of the Zitzewitz family can be traced back.

Around 1784 Klein Gansen had a farm, a brickworks , a lime kiln , six full farmers , one of whom belonged to the old Zitzewitz fief, Goschen, a half farmer , three farmers , a blacksmith, a schoolmaster and a new farm on the Feldmark, Julianenhof called, with one Kossät and two Büdners, a newly established sheep farm, which was called Krampnitzsche Schäferei, with two Kossäts and two Büdners, the Colony of Friederichsthal, which was occupied by eight half farmers, a grain and cutting mill, seven lumber yards, namely with the names Schwarzer-Born, Kolowny, Krampnitz, Borowe, Kaliesch, Swiatken and Schovawe, and a total of 48 households.

Between 1911 and 1914, the Glambocksee electric hydropower plant was completed in Klein Gansen. In 1926, a second power plant with a reservoir was built five kilometers further downstream.

In 1925 there were 76 residential buildings in Klein Gansen. In 1939 there were 102 households and 407 inhabitants. In 1939 there were 55 farms in Klein Gansen in addition to the estate. In 1938 the Klein Gansen manor, covering 868 hectares, had 286 hectares of arable land, 29 hectares of meadows, 370 hectares of forest, 160 hectares of land, courtyard and paths, and 23 hectares of water. Before 1945 there was a mill, an inn with beds for foreigners and an attached shop, a grocery store, a bakery and various handicraft businesses in the village.

Until 1945 the village of Klein Gansen belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin in the Pomerania province . The parish area was 1,978 hectares. In the Klein Gansen district there were a total of 11 places of residence:

  • Book katen
  • Borowe
  • Bruchhof
  • Friedrichsthal i. Pom.
  • Little goose
  • Krampnitz
  • Muskowski
  • Mill
  • Prosets
  • Julianshof facility
  • Zerowe

Towards the end of the Second World War , the villagers of Klein Gansen fled on March 6, 1945 from the approaching Red Army in a horse trek. The Klein Gansen power plant was shut down on March 7, 1945. Defensive battles broke out around the Stolpe Bridge the following night. The trek of the villagers in Bornzin and Schöneichen was overrun by the rapidly advancing Soviet troops . Since the horses were unhitched and confiscated, the villagers had to return on foot. In the first few weeks since the occupation of Klein Gansen, 22 people were abducted, of which only four returned. On April 1, the Soviet soldiers put the power plant back into operation with German personnel. After the end of the war, Klein Gansen was placed under Polish administration together with all of Western Pomerania . In July 1945 the power plant was nationalized by the In October 1945, more Poles were resettled in the village. The German villagers were expropriated and driven out . The power station's specialist staff remained until October 6, 1948, when Polish staff had been trained.

Later, 244 villagers from Klein Gansen were identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 98 in the GDR .

school

The school that existed in Klein Gansen before 1945 had three levels. It had three classes in which two teachers taught a total of about 80 children.

church

The population present in Klein Gansen before 1945 was of Protestant denomination. In 1925 Klein Gansen had five residents of Catholic religion.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 964, No. 46 .
  3. ↑ The community of Klein Gansen in the former Stolp district. Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association, 2011
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania. Evidence of his German past . Lübeck 1989, pp. 607–608 ( Online, PDF)