Kusice

Kusice
	Kusice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Malechowo
Geographic location :	54 ° 16 '  N , 16 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '57 "  N , 16 ° 28' 35"  E
Height :	45 m npm
Residents :	340
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów or Danzig

Kusice (German Kuhtz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the Powiat Sławieński ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

Kusice is located 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Sławno and can be reached via Niemica ( Nemitz ) on the state road 6 Stettin - Gdansk . The railway station is Wiekowo ( Alt Wieck ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

The village lies about 45 meters above sea level in a flat undulating landscape, the highest point of which is 60 meters north of Kusice ( Galgenberg ).

Neighboring municipalities of Kusice are: in the west Sieciemin ( Zitzmin ), in the northwest Pękanino ( Panknin ), in the north Niemica ( Nemitz ), in the northeast Bartolino ( Bartlin ), in the southeast Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) and in the south Ratajki ( Ratteick ).

Place name

In addition to the form of the name Kuhtz, there are earlier names such as Kutzow , Kutzitz , Kutzig , Cusice and Kutzke .

history

In the 13th century Kuhtz is mentioned as a village of the Parochie Nemitz (Polish: Niemica ) under the patronage of the Buckow monastery . In 1301, Prince Sambor von Rügen in Schlawe (Sławno) enfeoffed the Burgrave Matthew with a number of villages, including "Cusice". Later, the Kutzke de Zanow appeared as feudal bearers, and from 1350 the von Natzmer family owned Kuhtz. Christoph Heinrich von Schlieffen bought it from them in the middle of the 18th century. The last owner of the estate before 1945 was Jasper-Limbrecht von Schlieffen , who inherited it from his childless uncle Hans Nikolaus von Schlieffen , who died in 1932.

In 1784 Kuhtz had one Vorwerk , 1 water mill, 6 farmers, 1 schoolmaster and one wooden guard. In 1818, 154 people lived here. The number rose to 231 in 1895 and 249 in 1939.

A devastating fire, the second in the history of Kuhtz, destroyed the entire Kuhtzer Hof, all Büdner apartments and a farm on May 22, 1822.

Until 1945 Kuhtz belonged with the communities Nemitz (Niemica), Leikow (Lejkowo) and Soltikow (Sulechowo) to the administrative district Soltikow in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin (Koszalin) in the Prussian province of Pomerania . These communities and Söllnitz (Destinationsica) were also united with Soltikow in a registry office . The forester's house Kuhtz ( Kusiczki ) was in the district of Nemitz (Niemica).

On March 1, 1945, Soviet tanks came from the southern village of Ratteick (Ratajki) and advanced to the edge of the forest at Kuhtz and occupied the village in the evening. As a result of the war , Kuhtz came to Poland and is now called Kusice a district of Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

church

Before 1945 Kuhtz had only Protestant residents. The village was parish in the parish of Nemitz (Niemica), which also includes Bartlin (Bartolino) and Louisenhof (Krzekoszewo) and the subsidiary community of Klein Soltikow (Sulechówko) with Leikow (Lejkowo), Söllnitz (Destinationsica), Groß Soltikow (Sulechowo) and Borkow (Borkowo) belonged. The center of worship was the village church in Nemitz .

The parish Nemitz was in the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Martin Vossberg.

Today the inhabitants of Kusice belong almost exclusively to the Catholic Church. The Protestant church members are cared for by the rectory in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg (i.e. Lutheran) Church in Poland .

school

The school building in Kuhtz was rebuilt in the late 1920s. It was a primary school attended by the children from Kuhtz and Louisenhof (Krzekoszewo). The last German school holders were the teachers Obst and Radde.

literature

• Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . 2 volumes, Husum 1989.