Kowańcz

Kowańcz ( German Kowanz ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Karlino (municipality of Körlin) in the powiat Białogardzki (Belgarder Kreis) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 110 kilometers northeast of Stettin , about 25 kilometers southeast of Kolberg and about 2 kilometers west of Körlin .

history

The village was laid out in the Duchy of Pomerania in the form of an anger village in the Middle Ages ; the village green was roughly triangular in shape, which is still recognizable in the townscape today. The traditional field name "old village place" could refer to a Slavic predecessor settlement. The village was first mentioned in a document from 1434 under the place name "Kuwantze". The village was owned by the sovereign and remained a pure farming village for centuries. On the Great Lubin map of the Duchy of Pomerania from 1618 the place is entered as "Kawantz".

In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784), Kowanz is listed as one of the four villages of the Körlin Office . At that time Kowanz was "on the Poststrasse from Colberg to Cörlin ". At that time there was a free school in Kowanz , nineteen farms, six kossaten , two Büdner (including the schoolmaster) and a jug, a total of thirty households ("fire places").

In the 19th century the separation was carried out in Kowanz . To replace the rights of the Koerlin office, which had been sold in private ownership in 1810, the owner of the office received an area west of the village of Kowanz, on which he built a sheep farm. The Neu Kowanz residential area developed from this .

The Ritterberg residential area between Kowanz and Körlin , which had also belonged to the Körlin Office, was counted as part of the Kowanz municipality from 1861 onwards. But when the manor district of Amt Körlin was incorporated into the city of Körlin in 1928 , the city of Körlin also claimed the Ritterberg residential area as part of the urban area. A legal battle ensued that was not ended until 1945.

The municipality of Kowanz was in the Fürstenthum district until 1872 and with its division it became part of the Kolberg-Körlin district . Before 1945, the Neu Kowanz and Ritterberg residential areas were run alongside Kowanz .

Towards the end of World War II , Kowanz was captured by the Red Army on March 4, 1945 . The Red Army shot dead some villagers, including the teacher, and abducted some villagers. The seizure of cattle and grain resulted in a famine with deaths. After Kowanz was handed over to Polish authorities by the Soviet authorities in autumn 1945 , the remaining villagers fled. The village was settled by Polish immigrants. The place name was Polonized to "Kowańcz". Today the place belongs to the Gmina Karlino (municipality of Körlin) , in which it forms its own Schulzenamt .

Development of the population

1816: 290 inhabitants
1855: 496 inhabitants
1885: 400 inhabitants
1905: 435 inhabitants
1919: 438 inhabitants
1925: 472 inhabitants
1933: 424 inhabitants
1939: 402 inhabitants

Sons and daughters of the place

Kurt Anclam (* 1918), former German politician (LDPD), member of the GDR State Council

literature

Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1, Anklam 1867, pp. 277-278 ( 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. 366-375.

Web links

Kowanz 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 . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 545 ( 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 , p. 66.
^ Kowanz in the Pommern information system.
↑ Solectwa on the municipality's website.
↑ ^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. 370.

54.035833333333 15.84Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ N , 15 ° 50 ′ E

[1] 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. 545 ( online ).

[2] 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. 66.

[3] Kowanz in the Pommern information system.

[4] Solectwa on the municipality's website.

[VO-5] ↑ ^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. 370.