Ognica (Gmina Widuchowa)

Ognica (German Nipperwiese ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Widuchowa (rural community Fiddichow) in the Powiat Gryfiński (Greifenhagener district) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 40 kilometers south of Stettin on the right bank of the Oder , which forms the state border between Poland and Germany . About 6 kilometers to the west on the German side is the city of Schwedt / Oder on the Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler waterway . The Schwedter Querfahrt , formerly called the Nipperwieser Querfahrt , runs between this waterway and the Oder .

history

Village church (2004)

In 1373 the St. Catherine's Church in Nipperwiese was consecrated by Bishop Philipp von Cammin .

Before 1945, Nipperwiese was a rural community in the Greifenhagen district in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The Schenksruh and Schöpfwerk residential areas also belonged to the community . In 1939 there were 1363 inhabitants in the municipality.

After the Second World War , Nipperwiese, like all of Western Pomerania, came to Poland. The place received the Polish place name Ognica .

Attractions

• Village church , a plastered boulder building, probably built after 1600

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ernst Schneckenberg (1876–?), German architect and lecturer in the arts and crafts school in Berlin
• Herbert Kaphengst (1898–?), German politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

literature

• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 248.

Web links

Commons : Ognica, Gmina Widuchowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nipperwiese on the website of the Greifenhagen home district

Footnotes

1. ^ Entry in the private information system Pomerania .

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '  N , 14 ° 22'  E