Korzystno

Korzystno (German Alt Werder ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is located in the Gmina Kołobrzeg (rural municipality Kolberg) in the powiat Kołobrzeski (Kolberg district) .

View of the village with the church (photo from 2013)

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 100 kilometers northeast of Szczecin . The historic center is about 5 kilometers southwest of the city center of Kolberg , and today there is an almost continuous development.

history

The village was laid out in the Duchy of Pomerania as part of the German East Settlement in the form of a dead end village. In a document from 1287 an "insula" was named, which belonged to the area of the city of Kolberg . This is likely to refer to a still uninhabited "island" that protruded from the surrounding swamps. The later place name "Werder" would then be derived from this location as Werder .

On the Great Lubin map of the Duchy of Pomerania from 1618, the place is entered as "Warder".

The village of Werder was a Kolberger town owned village. In 1628, when the city of Kolberg needed money during the Thirty Years' War , it pledged the village to the mayor Hermann Freter . But already in 1630 Werder was burned down by imperial troops.

Before the Seven Years' War there was an urban Vorwerk (Kämmerei-Vorwerk) and 4 farms in Werder . Werder was burned down during the Seven Years' War. After the war, Werder was rebuilt. It now received 7 farm positions and 3 Büdner positions , the Vorwerk was not set up again.

In the 1770s, King Frederick the Great ordered the Kolberg Council to create a craftsmen's place for wool spinners. The district of the new settlement was removed from the district of Werder. The new settlement was named Neu Werder ; the place name Werder later became Alt Werder.

In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784) Werder is listed among the Kolberg city owned villages. At that time there were 7 farm sites and 3 Büdner sites, a total of 15 households (“fire sites”).

Around 1860 there were 28 residential buildings, a school building and 28 farm buildings in Alt Werder. 44 horses, 188 cattle, 217 sheep and 60 pigs were kept.

In 1882 the railway line of the Altdamm-Colberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was opened along the village , at which Alt Werder received a railway station.

Until 1945, the rural community Alt Werder belonged to the Kolberg-Körlin district in the Prussian province of Pomerania . Apart from the village of Alt Werder, no other residential spaces were counted.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Alt Werder was captured by the Red Army in March 1945 . In 1945, Old Werder, like all of Western Pomerania, came to Poland. Unless they had fled, the population was expelled by 1947 and replaced by Poles . Alt Werder received the Polish place name "Korzystno". Today the place belongs to the Gmina Kołobrzeg (rural municipality Kolberg) , in which it forms its own Schulzenamt .

Development of the population

1816: 099 inhabitants
1855: 261 inhabitants
1871: 301 inhabitants
1885: 261 inhabitants
1905: 261 inhabitants
1919: 309 inhabitants
1933: 260 inhabitants
1939: 248 inhabitants

church

Church, built in 1866/1867 (photo from 2008)

Alt Werder originally belonged to the parish of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Kolberg, to which several villages were parish. In 1865 the church was demolished because it was in disrepair. The new building did not take place in Kolberg, but in Alt Werder. The church building was built in the neo-Romanesque style from 1866 to 1867. Several pieces of equipment were taken over from the Heilig-Geist-Kirche.

The Protestant parish Alt Werder had 1688 members (as of 1940).

After 1945 the Roman Catholic Church in Poland appropriated the Protestant church.

literature

Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, pp. 149-150 ( online ).
Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , pp. 86-91.

Web links

Commons : Alt Werder - Collection of Images

Old Werder at the Kolberger Lande association

Footnotes

↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. 2nd part, 2nd volume. Stettin 1784, p. 496, No. 18 ( online ).
^ Municipality of Alt Werder in the Pomerania information system.
↑ Overview of the school offices of Gmina Kołobrzeg.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , p. 88.

54.144166666667 15.516666666667Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ N , 15 ° 31 ′ E

[1] Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. 2nd part, 2nd volume. Stettin 1784, p. 496, No. 18 ( online ).

[2] Municipality of Alt Werder in the Pomerania information system.

[3] Overview of the school offices of Gmina Kołobrzeg.

[VO-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , p. 88.