Mazów

Mazów (German Meitzow ) 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

Mazów is located eleven kilometers north of Sławno on the southern slope of the Wippertal in a river bend. The altitude of the village is 22 meters above sea level, that of the Wippertal is 10 meters. The small farming village used to be very remote and only connected to neighboring towns by dirt roads: Stary Kraków ( Alt Krakow ) in the west, Chudaczewko ( Neu Kuddezow ) in the north, Wilkowice ( Wilhelmine ) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) in the east, and Radosław in the south ( Coccejendorf , formerly Schwenzenhagen ).

history

Meitzow will probably be the village called "Mozow", which Duke Swantopolk II of Pommerellen gave to the Order of St. John in 1240 with other villages . Duke Erich II of Pomerania exchanged six villages with Pollnow (today in Polish: Polanów) in 1474 , and since then Meitzow has belonged to the Rügenwalde office ,

Around 1780 the village had: 1 free school, 5 farmers, 4 country cottages, 1 street cottage, 2 Büdner as well as 1 school and shepherd cottage with a total of 15 fire places.

In 1818 there were 141 inhabitants in Meitzow. Their number rose to 228 by 1864, but was only 136 in 1939. In 1934 the village received electricity.

On March 7, 1945, Red Army soldiers entered the village. The inhabitants were resettled to Deutsch Puddiger (Podgórki), but gradually came back after the establishment of a commandant's office. In November 1947, Poles took over the village.

Until 1945 Meitzow belonged with Alt Krakow (Stary Kraków) and Kannin (Kanin) to the district of Alt Krakow in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . Also a civil Meitzow was oriented to Old Krakow down. The district court was in Schlawe .

Today the village under the Polish name Mazów is a district of Gmina Postomino in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 the population of Meitzow was almost without exception Protestant . The village belonged with Kannin (Kanin) to the parish Alt Krakow in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Pastor Erich Kramer was the last German clergyman .

Today most of the residents of Mazów are Roman Catholics . The connection between the village and Stary Kraków has remained, where a parish was established in the Darłowo deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are now looked after by the parish office in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945, the one-class elementary school with a teacher's apartment stood in the middle of the village. About 20 children were taught here. The last German teacher was Eduard Zühlke .

literature

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

Coordinates: 54 ° 26 '  N , 16 ° 39'  E