Krąg (Polanów)

Krąg
Help on coat of arms	Krąg
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Polanów
Geographic location :	54 ° 12 '  N , 16 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '0 "  N , 16 ° 42' 0"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	76-010
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	DW 205 ( Bobolice - Sławno - Darłowo )
Rail route :	(no rail connection available)
Next international airport :	Gdansk Airport

Krąg ( German  Krangen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Polanów (Pollnow) in the Powiat Koszaliński (Köslin) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about ten kilometers north of Polanów in a landscape rich in lakes in the Grabow (Grabowa) valley and 16 kilometers south of the former district town of Sławno (Schlawe) .

history

Krangen Castle in the 17th century

Castle Hotel Podewils in Krangen

Chapel of the family crypt of the Podewils family in Krangen

Krangen (old spelling: Crangen ) is an old church and estate village. It was first mentioned in a document in 1458. From 1506 it was owned by the von Podewils family , who in the 18th century owned the entire parish of Krangen with the exception of Zirchow (Sierakowo Sławieńskie). A hospital or poor house is mentioned for the first time in 1696.

In 1818 there were 294 people in Krangen, in 1895 there were 410, and in 1939 there were 374 inhabitants.

The Krangen- Bussin railway station was on the Reichsbahn line No. 111m Gramenz (Grzmiąca) -Zollbrück (Korzybie) .

Until 1945, Krangen belonged to the Schlawe district in the Köslin administrative district of the Pomerania province of the German Empire . The place was the seat of the administrative district Krangen, whose registry office district was Kummerow (Komorowo), whereby the registry office had outsourced its seat in Drenzig (Drzeńsko). District court district was Schlawe (Sławno). Civil status documents from the period before 1945 are now in the Polanów registry office and in the Koszalin State Archives.

Towards the end of World War II , Krangen was occupied by the Red Army . Like all of Western Pomerania , the place was soon placed under Polish administration. Subsequently, the immigration of Poles and Ukrainians began from the areas east of the Curzon Line that had fallen to the Soviet Union as part of the “ westward displacement of Poland ” .

Today the village belongs to the Gmina Polanów in the Powiat Koszaliński.

Population development

year	Residents	Remarks
1925	419	including 397 Evangelicals and two Catholics
1933	396
1939	374

Attractions

• Castle : The castle in Krangen, which dates back to the 15th century and was expanded into a picturesque late Renaissance castle, is one of the oldest surviving castles in Western Pomerania. It was the ancestral home of the von Podewils family . From 1860 to 1880 Hugo Freiherr von Loen owned the manor, after which it was sold to the von Riepenhausen family . The last owner was his nephew Carl Alexander von Uexkull. After the war it was saved from deterioration and - after thorough restoration - converted into a hotel.

• Church : The simple church houses a baroque interior from the 16th century, which largely survived the war.
  • At the beginning of the 18th century, a burial chapel was built on the east side of the church , in which the sarcophagi of the castle captain Adam von Podewils († 1697) and the general field witness Heinrich von Podewils († 1696) are located, as well as the epitaphs of the two deceased and another Epitaph in memory of Ernst Bogislav von Podewils .

Parish of Krangen

Parish

Until the end of the 16th century, Krangen was a daughter church of Kummerow . After that, Kummerow (with Drenzig , Wendisch Buckow and Bosens) and then also Zirchow (with Latzig ) belonged as subsidiary communities to the parish of Krangen, which also included the villages of Bursin and Hanshagen. In 1940, 2770 parishioners belonged to the parish, 860 of them to the Krangen parish church, 1170 to the Kummerow branch church and 740 to the Zirchow branch church. Until 1945 the parish Krangen belonged to the church district Schlawe in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church registers were lost during the war. Evangelical Christians, who now reside in the territory of the former parish Krag belong to Diecezja Pomorsko-Wielkopolska ( Diocese of Pomerania-Wielkopolska ) - based in Sopot (Sopot) - the Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski (Luterański) w Polsce ( Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland ). The rectory is in Koszalin .

Pastor from the Reformation 1545 to 1945

1. Matthias Ludolphus
2. Kaspar Franke
3. M. Johann Tidäus, 1623-1657
4. Bartholomäus Konrad Miethmann, 1659–1701 (?)
5. Nikolaus Gabriel Polemann, 1702–1713
6. Martin Benjamin Westphal, 1713-1744
7. Johann Gottlieb Pauli, 1744–1782
8. Johann Gottfried Neumann, 1783–1802
9. Ernst Friedrich Neumann, 1803–1843
10. Karl August Leopold Schultz, 1844–1878
11. Johannes Gottlieb Görke, 1879–1887
12. Werner Otto Wetzel, 1889–1900
13. Edmund Friedrich Ernst Paul Voigt, 1900–1904
14. Friedrich Ludwig Otto Plaensdorf, 1904–1935
15. Wilhelm Vedder, 1939–1945

Personalities

• Heinrich von Podewils (1615–1696, buried in Krangen in a ceremonial coffin that is still in the church today), Brunswick-Lüneburg general field master and master. Council of war, French field marshal
• Heinrich Graf von Podewils (born October 3, 1696 in Krangen; † 1760), Prussian Minister of State
• Karl von Riepenhausen , landowner from 1880
• Siegfried zu Eulenburg-Wicken (1870–1961), Prussian officer and landlord

literature

• Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Cößlin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 868-870, no. 15.
• Official municipality register for the German Reich based on the 1939 census, ed. from the Reich Statistical Office, 2nd edition. Berlin 1941.
• The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present, Part 2: The Administrative Region of Köslin, arr. v. Ernst Müller. Szczecin 1912.
• Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania, 2nd part: Authorities, churches, parish offices, clergy, institutions and associations. Szczecin 1940.
• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 193 f.
• Ruth Hoevel: Parish Krangen Kreis Schlawe in Pomerania (=  East German rural communities and parishes, vol. 15). Münster 1981, ISBN 3-88378-009-X .
• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch, ed. on behalf of the home district of Schlawe by Manfred Vollack, Husum: Vol. 1: The district as a whole, 1986; Vol. 2: The cities and rural communities, 1989, ISBN 3-88042-337-7 .
• Detlef Schnell: Krangen in the Schlawe district. Manor houses in Western and Eastern Pomerania. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. 40th Jg. (2002), Issue 1, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 28-30.

Web links

Commons : Krąg, West Pomeranian Voivodeship  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The community of Krangen in the former district of Schlawe in Pomerania (2011).
• Gmina Polanów (Polish)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann (ed.): Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 868-870 .
2. ↑ Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft: The municipality of Krangen in the former district of Schlawe in Pomerania (2011).
3. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schlawe.html # ew39sclwakrang. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Meyer's travel book The German Baltic Sea Coast , Part II: The Pomeranian Coast with its hinterland. 2nd Edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1924, p. 185.