Koczała
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Człuchowski | ||
| Gmina : | Koczała | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 54 ' N , 17 ° 4' E | ||
| Residents : | 2111 | ||
| Postal code : | 77-220 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 59 | ||
| License plate : | GCZ | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Piaszczyna - Przechlewo | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Koczała ( German Flötenstein ) is a village with the seat of the rural municipality of the same name in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the powiat Człuchowski .
Geographical location
The village is located in the former West Prussia on the border with Western Pomerania , about 15 kilometers southeast of Rummelsburg ( Miastko ).
Koczała can be reached via a side road that branches off at Piaszczyna ( pure water ) on state road 20 ( Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) - Gdynia ( Gdynia )) and leads via Pietrzykowo ( Groß Peterkau ) and Bielsko ( Bölzig ) to Przechlewo ( Prechlau ) . There is no direct rail connection.
history
The area around Flötenstein was settled in prehistoric times. In 1356 Alexander Stange, with the consent of the Komtur in Schlochau (today in Polish: Człuchów), gave his mayor Hermann 60 hooves, which were to be occupied by farmers according to culmic law.
When the Hussites invaded in 1433 Flötenstein was devastated.
In 1456 the Teutonic Order pledged Flötenstein to the Pomeranian nobles Anton von der Osten and Cordt Glasenapp .
The Swedish-Polish War (1656–1660) also hit Flötenstein.
Before 1945 there were seven places to live in the municipality of Flötenstein: Am Diemensee, Flötenstein Bahnhof, Grenzort (now Polish: Działek), Kreschenbruch (Podlesie), Pothaken (Potoki) and Steinforth Forsthaus.
Before 1945, the municipality Flötenstein belonged to the district of Schlochau , between 1919 and 1939 to the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, then to the administrative region of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia in the Prussian province of Pomerania . In 1939 there were 1843 registered residents here. The vernacular called Flötenstein “ crow's corner ” because countless crows had their numerous nesting places here and could be found at any time.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . Soon afterwards the district of Schlochau with Flötenstein, along with West Prussia and Western Pomerania, was placed under Polish administration. Where German villagers had not fled, they were in the period that followed sold . After 1945 the place came under the name Koczała to the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ) and became the seat of Gmina Koczała in the powiat Człuchowski .
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1864 | 1,531 | thereof 299 Evangelicals and 1,227 Catholics |
| 1925 | 1,822 | including 362 Evangelicals, 1,440 Catholics and three Jews |
| 1933 | 1,907 | |
| 1939 | 1,843 |
church
Catholic Church
The Catholic parish church of St. Maria Magdalena was built after the fire of the old church in 1695 due to lightning strike on May 19, 1891 in the years 1901 to 1902 as a solid building in neo-Romanesque-Gothic style. She was consecrated on November 27, 1902. In Polish times she was named Kościół pw. Nawodzenia NMP .
Flötenstein was the seat of a Catholic parish. Before 1945, about 79% of the population belonged to the Catholic denomination. After 1945 the number of Catholics continued to increase. The place is now integrated into the Deanery Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The places Starzno ( Starsen ) and Bielsko ( Bölzig ) are branch communities.
Protestant church
The Protestant parish church was built in 1909 on the so-called Babylon Hill with the support of the Diaspora Association Gustav-Adolf-Werk . The parish Flötenstein belonged to before 1945 Kirchenkreis Schlochau in the ecclesiastical province of West Prussia the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union . Since 1945 only a few Protestant church members have lived in Koczała. They now belong to the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The next place of worship is Wołcza Wielka ( Groß Volz ).
In Flötenstein officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945: Hermann August Johannes Schmökel (1899–1900), Johann Otto Grabowski (1901–1903), Maximilian Albert Mayer (1903–1924), Friedrich Kübler (1924–1928), Otto Düwel (1929– 1936) and Carl Heinz Heymann (1936–1945).
Gmina Koczała
The rural municipality of Koczała covers an area of 222.41 km², which corresponds to 14.13% of the total area of the powiat Człuchowski . 67% of the municipal area are forest and forest areas. 3505 inhabitants are registered in Gmina, 2111 of whom live in the central town of Koczała.
traffic
The Gmina Koczała is very remote in terms of traffic and is difficult to access. The next town is Miastko ( Rummelsburg ), which can be reached via undeveloped side roads and country lanes.
A train connection has not existed since 1992. At that time, the 1902-built Człuchów – Słosinko railway from Człuchów ( Schlochau ) via Przechlewo ( Prechlau ) to Słosinko ( Reinfeld ) and continued to Miastko .
literature
- Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 106.
- Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Volume 1, Hamburg 1968.
Web links
- Flötenstein in the home district of Schlochau
- Gunthard Stübs and the Pomeranian Research Association: The community of Flötenstein in the former Schlochau district in Pomerania (2011).
Individual evidence
- ^ E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical handbook for the district of Marienwerder , Danzig 1868, pp. 130-131, no. 77 .
- ↑ Gunthard Stübs and the Pomeranian Research Association: The municipality of Flötenstein in the former Schlochau district in Pomerania (2011).
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. schlochau.html # ew39slocefloten. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).