Kościernica (Białogard)

Kościernica
	Kościernica
	Kościernica
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Białogard
Gmina :	Białogard
Geographic location :	54 ° 3 ' N , 16 ° 1' E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '0 " N , 16 ° 1' 0" E
Residents :	370 ()
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZBI
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Szczecin – Gdansk
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów
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Kościernica ( German Kösternitz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community (Gmina wiejska) Białogard in the powiat Białogardzki .

Geographical location

Kościernica is five kilometers north of Białogard in a flat area and is a train station on the railway line Szczecin - Gdansk . It can be reached via a side road. Unmistakable is the formerly so-called Kösternitzer Berg with its 63 meters height.

Surname

The former name Kösternitz seems to be derived from the Slavic word kust or chrust = pile of wood or shrub and is also used in today's Polish name.

history

At the end of the Thirty Years War , 89 people lived in the village. The names Sydow, Below, Kröger or also Dummer, Glambeck and Beyelhof are known.

In 1688 a violent border dispute broke out between the Kösternitzers and the Lülfitzers, which could only be settled on the spot after years of negotiations in 1726 by a delegation from the Pomeranian government.

In 1834 the village was completely destroyed by fire and then rebuilt.

In 1931 the municipal area of Kösternitz covered 838.8 hectares. Of the 321 inhabitants counted in 1939, 221 worked in agriculture and forestry, 24 in industry and crafts and 35 in trade and transport.

Until 1945 Kösternitz formed its own district and belonged to the registry office district Roggow and the district court area Belgard.

The Red Army entered the village on March 6, 1945. The soldiers were very brutal and several people were shot. Half a year later the Poles came to Kösternitz. The expulsion of the local population dragged on until 1947.

Today Kösternitz belongs to Poland as Kościernica and is part of the rural municipality of Białogard.

church

Kösternitz did not have its own church, but was parish into the Marienkirche parish of Belgard . The village was thus in the Pomeranian parish Belgard of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Kościernica lies in the Parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) within the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church.

school

The school building stood in the middle of the village and was rebuilt after a fire in 1880. A small bell was hung in the school tower, which was used as a death and school bell, but also for community announcements. During the Second World War , this bell had to be handed in for armament purposes, but it was preserved: it is in the Bell Museum at Greifenstein Castle (Hesse) .

In 1928 a new, single-class schoolhouse was built on the outskirts of Pustchow . At that time, 25 boys and 13 girls attended school.

Peculiarity

The Kösternitzer used to be known for their light blonde hair color. When meeting children and adults from the neighboring villages, the Kösternitzer often had to listen to the saying: “Dei Kösternitzer hewwe 'ne Bottermelkskopp” .

The Kösternitzer reacted not quite appropriately but clearly with the assertion: "The Pustchower etc. have a tinny butt" .

literature

Belgard County. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. ed. v. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.

Individual evidence

^ Website of the Powiat Białogardzki, Kościernica , accessed on February 19, 2013

[1] Website of the Powiat Białogardzki, Kościernica , accessed on February 19, 2013