Kreutz (Pomerania)

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Kreutz was a residential area in the Prussian province of Pomerania . It was laid out in 1781 on the site of the former village of Elmershagen and has been in desolation since March 1945 .

Geographical location

The desert is in Western Pomerania , about 60 km east of Stettin and about 13 km west of the district town of Łobez (Labes) . Voivodeship Road 146 runs north of the desert .

History of the village of Elmershagen

The village was named "Helmichshagen" in a document from 1346. It was an old fiefdom of the noble Wedel family . With the certificate Wedego von Wedel compared himself with the Camminer cathedral chapter about the tithe, which the cathedral chapter raised in four Wedelschen estates. Later the place name was ground to "Elmershagen".

The village was struck by lightning in 1690, burned down and was never rebuilt.

History of the Kreutz plant

At the site of Dorfwüstung the landowner of the estate left Schwerin , the district administrator Sebastian Georg von Wedel , one in 1781 Vorwerk create. After the destruction caused by the Seven Years' War , King Frederick the Great provided low-interest amelioration funds for the economic development of Pomerania. District Administrator Sebastian Georg von Wedel received 5,800 Reichstaler at an interest rate of 1 percent. With this money he built this Vorwerk for his Gut Schwerin in the northeast of the manor district and a few years later the Vorwerk Schwerinshof in the west of the manor district .

Sebastian Georg von Wedel gave the new Vorwerk the old place name Elmershagen. When he got into economic difficulties, the vernacular gave his three estates the names "cross, misery and misery". The name "Kreuz", also in Low German "Krütz", stuck to this Vorwerk, and even in official use it completely replaced the name Elmershagen.

Henriette von Pfuel , widow of the Prussian general Karl Ludwig von Pfuel, who died in 1826, and since 1827 landlady of Schwerin, tried to give the Kreutz farm back the place name Elmershagen. Your application received the support of the District Administrator Ernst August Philipp von Borcke , but was rejected by the government in 1839 because the names of the residential areas should not be changed any more. For this she gave a new Vorwerk, which she built about 500 meters away in 1838, the name Elmershagen .

In 1837 there were 37 inhabitants in Kreutz. Around 1870 31 residents were counted, who lived in 7 families in 5 houses. Around 1870 7 horses, 20 cows and 310 sheep were kept in Kreutz. In 1923 there were 53 inhabitants.

Until 1945 Kreutz was a residential area of the Schwerin community in the Regenwalde district .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the residents of Kreutz fled from the approaching Red Army on March 3, 1945 . Kreutz was defended by German soldiers and shot at by Soviet tanks. On March 7, 1945, Kreutz burned down completely except for one residential building. Five fallen German soldiers were later buried. Kreutz was not rebuilt. Like all areas east of the Oder-Neisse border, Kreutz came to Poland. Polish immigrants used the ruins as building material for houses in Schwerin.

The desert is now in the area of ​​the Gmina Węgorzyno (urban and rural municipality Wangerin) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II, Volume 7. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, p. 755 ( online ).
  • Kay von Wedel: The Vorwerk of the manor Schwerin, Regenwalde district . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 4/2015, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 19-22.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II, Volume 7. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, p. 853 ( online ).
  2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II, Volume 7. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, p. 708 ( online ).
  3. ^ Kreutz in the Pomeranian information system.

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 25 ′ 52 ″  E