Mierzęcin (Dobiegniew)
Mierzęcin (German Mehrenthin ) is a place in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship with about 350 inhabitants.
The place is located in the Neumark about 7.5 km southeast of the city Dobiegniew , to whose municipality it belongs, in the district of Powiat Strzelecko-Drezdenecki .
history
The first documented mentions of Mehrenthin can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The first known owner is the von der Osten family who sold the place to von Kramme and von Gram in 1608. A number of (partial) sales took place in the 17th century. In 1715 the estate is acquired by the von Sydow family. In the same year the field stone church of the place was built. In the 1820s, the von Waldow family purchased the site and property. Since 1816 the place belonged to the district Friedeberg Nm. .
In 1847 the place was connected to the newly built railway line Posen-Stargard . In the years 1861–1863, Robert Friedrich von Waldow had the castle built.
In 1945 the place became Polish and was named Mierzęcin. The German population was expelled and Poles settled in the village. The von Waldow family, as the owners of the castle, was also expropriated and expelled after the Second World War under application of the Bierut decrees of the Polish government. After the end of communism, Alexander von Waldow campaigned unsuccessfully for restitution in the 1990s .
1975 to 1998 the place belonged to the Gorzów Voivodeship .
1945–1959 the castle was used as a children's home for disabled children. After that, it was used by the local farm. From 1992 it stood empty until it was privatized in 1998 and renovated in 1999–2001.
Cultural monuments
- The church from 1715 was initially a Protestant church, the community of which finally belonged to the old Prussian church province of Brandenburg. After the Germans were driven out, it was converted into a Roman Catholic branch church and dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. The organ from around 1852 comes from the organ builder Ernst Sauer .
- Cemetery next to the church
- Mehrenthin Castle , neo-Gothic palace, built 1861–1863 in neo-Gothic style
- Castle Park.
Personalities
- Friedrich Siegmund von Waldow (1682–1743), Royal Prussian Major General, Chief of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 8 and heir to Mehrenthin
- Bernhard von Waldow (1856–1914), politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Ulrich von Waldow (1863–1936), German administrative officer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ayhan Bakirdögen: Struggle for the legacy in Poland . In: Die Welt , August 22, 2004.
Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ' N , 15 ° 50' E