Masłowice (Postomino)

Masłowice (German Masselwitz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in the district of Sławno ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

The farming village of Masłowice is located in the northwest of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, 15 kilometers northwest of the district town Sławno and 15 kilometers east of Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ), on the top of a ground moraine that extends from Cisowo ( Zizow ) to Postomino and Złakowo ( Schlackow ).

The voivodship road 203 , which connects Koszalin ( Köslin ) and Darłowo with Ustka ( Stolpmünde ), runs through the village . Until 1945 the next train station was Pustamin on the now dismantled railway line Schlawe - Stolpmünde . The next train stations today are Darłowo or Sławno on the PKP route 418 Korzybie ( Zollbrück ) –Darłowo.

At an altitude of 51 meters above sea level. Masłowice borders in the west on Kanin ( Kannin ), in the north on Korlino ( Körlin ), in the east on Ronino ( Rönneberg ) and Chudaczewo ( Alt Kuddezow ) and in the south on Stary Kraków ( Alt Krakow ), which is already beyond the Wieprza ( Wipper ) lies.

Place name

The place name Masłowice / Masselwitz was originally Dummaslowitz and is derived from the founder's name Domizlaw . Slavists derive the name from the Polish masło = "butter", meaning "butter village". The German name Masselwitz can also be found in other localities, as well as the current Polish name Masłowice .

history

Masselwitz is a foundation of the Rügen knight Domizlaw , who from 1262 to 1268 as a vassal of the dukes Barnim I and Wartislaw III. from Pomerania. Damshagen (Domasławice), 17 kilometers south-west, was also founded by this - probably Wendish - nobleman. He had the area around Masselwitz as a fief and founded a church there, which he subordinated to Buckow Monastery . After the Reformation , the place was awarded to the ducal office of Rügenwalde .

Around 1780 there are in Masselwitz: 1 free school, 8 farmers, 1 Landkossät, 1 Straßenkossäz, 1 forester and 1 shepherd's apartment with a total of 18 fireplaces. In 1818 there were 166 inhabitants, the number of which increased to 210 in 1871 and in 1939 it was already 234.

Until 1945 Masselwitz was a municipality in the Pennekow (Pieńkowo) district in the Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The responsible registry office was also in Pennekow, while the district court was in Rügenwalde .

Today Masłowice is part of the Gmina Postomino in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 the inhabitants of Masselwitz belonged almost exclusively to the Protestant church. The village did not have its own house of worship. It was integrated with the place Neu Kuddezow (today Polish: Chudaczewko) in the parish Alt Kuddezow (Chudaczewo), which belonged to the church district Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm Beyer .

Since 1945 the population of Masłowice has been predominantly Roman Catholic . Kirchdorf is still Chudaczewo , which is no longer an independent parish, but is assigned as a subsidiary church to the parish of Stary Kraków ( Old Krakow ). It is located in the Darłowo deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members are looked after by the parish office in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

A single-class elementary school existed in Masselwitz until 1945. The schoolhouse with the teacher's apartment was built in 1935. The last German teacher was Ernst Wockenfuß , who last taught 28 children.

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989

Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 37'  E