Machovino

Church of the place

Machowino (German Groß Machmin ) is a village in the rural community Ustka in the powiat Słupski of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Machowino is located in Western Pomerania , about eleven kilometers southeast of Ustka ( Stolpmünde ), ten kilometers north of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and 108 kilometers west of the regional metropolis of Danzig . A stream flows through the center of the village and flows into the Słupia ( Stolpe ) west of the village .

history

Groß Machmin southeast of Stolpmünde on the Baltic Sea (left half of the picture, can be enlarged by clicking) and north of Stolp on a map from 1910.

Groß Machmin used to be a manor. The village was originally called line village was created. In 1717 the Lettow family owned the village. Around the year 1784 there were in the United Machmin a Vorwerk, a water mill - Obermühle called - five farmers, four Kossäten , an inn, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster and a total of 24 households. In 1939 411 inhabitants were counted in the place, who lived in 106 households, and there were 42 houses.

Before the end of World War II United Machmin official residence was the administrative district United Machmin in county Stolp , administrative region of Pomerania , the province of Pomerania . Towards the end of World War II, the region was occupied by the Red Army on May 8, 1945 and then placed under Polish administration. From summer 1945 the houses and farms in the village were taken over by immigrant Poles as part of Polish expropriation measures. Great Machmin was renamed Machowino . The entire German population was expelled .

167 villagers displaced from Groß Machmin were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 131 in the GDR .

In 2008 around 500 people lived in the village.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

• Fritz Bäther (1928–1979), German politician (SPD), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 530–533 (Description of the location Groß Machmin ; PDF; 808 kB)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 983, No. 84.

Web links

Commons : Machowino  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The place of residence Groß Machmin in the former district of Stolp (2011).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 533 ( Description of the place Groß Machmin ; PDF)

Coordinates: 54 ° 33 '  N , 17 ° 0'  E