Osieki (Kępice)
Osieki (German Wusseken, Schlawe / Pommern district ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community of Kępice ( Hammer Mill ) in Słupsk ( Stolp ) district.
Geographical location
Osieki is located 18 kilometers southeast of Sławno ( Schlawe ) in a flat to hilly landscape, the highest point of which is 94 meters above sea level south of the village. It can be reached via the road 209 (Sławno– Bytów ( Bütow )) in the Barcino ( Bartin ) junction and via the road 208 (Barcino– Polanów ( Pollnow )) in the Obłęże ( Woblanse ) junction. The nearest train station is the former Korzybie ( Zollbrück ) railway junction on the Piła – Ustka ( Schneidemühl - Stolpmünde ) railway, four kilometers away .
Neighboring towns of Osieki are: Łętowo ( Lantow ) in the west, Korzybie in the north, Barcino ( Bartin ) in the east and Obłęże ( Woblanse ) and Kępice ( hammer mill ) in the south .
Place name
Before 1945, " Wusseken " was a common Pomeranian place name in the Anklam , Bütow , Köslin and Stolp districts . It is of Slavic origin and means something like "place in the clearing carved into the forest". The place name " Osieki " is used six times in Poland.
history
Wusseken is a very old settlement area, which is documented by urns and burns found in the ground. The first documented message dates from 1285, in which Hinricus de Massow married a daughter of the Vorpommern Count von Gützkow and with it the six villages Bartin (Barcino), Barvin (Barwino), Brünnow (Bronowo), Seelitz (Żelice), Woblanse (Obłęże) ) and Wusseken as the bride's treasure. After that, Wusseken was a fief of the von Massow family .
Around 1780 are registered for the village: a Vorwerk , six farmers, a Halbbauer , four Kossäten , a schoolmaster, a tavern, a blacksmith and 19 fireplaces (households). There was some fishing in a lake and in ponds. Ferdinand von Massow , who was the last man of his family on Wusseken, died before 1808 . His widow sold to Mrs. Wilke, nee von Kleist , who set up a von Kleist entails commission in Wusseken , which lasted until 1945.
In 1873, 23 local residents fell victim to a cholera epidemic.
Until the end of the Second World War in 1945, Wusseken was a community in the extreme - in the district of Rummelsburg i. Pom. protruding - tip of the district of Schlawe i. Pom. On March 10, 1945 the Red Army occupied the place and a refugee route of the residents that had already started stalled and was completely looted. Red Army squads carried out shooting operations, which also killed the last landowner on Wusseken, Robert von Kleist , and his eldest son. Then Wusseken - like the rest of Western Pomerania - was placed under Polish administration. The German place now received the Polish name Osieki .
Poles migrated and seized the houses and farms of the locals. The expulsion of the German civilian population began on the basis of the Bierut decrees . In 1947 the place was completely in Polish hands.
Today Osieki is part of the rural community ( Gmina ) Kępice in the Powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship .
Development of the population
- 1818: 180
- 1885: 360
- 1939: 203
- 2009: 126
Osieczki / Neu Wusseken
Until 1945, Neu Wusseken was a manor farm of Wusseken, which was two kilometers west of the village on the edge of the Wieprza ( Wipper ) lowland. Today it is the small settlement of Osieczki.
church
Before 1945 almost exclusively Protestant residents lived in Wusseken . Parish village was Bartin (Barcino), to whose parish the places Brünnow (Bronowo), Seelitz (Żelice) and Woblanse (Obłęże) belonged. It was in the church district of Schlawe in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The patronage right for Wusseken last had the landowner Robert von Kleist . The last German clergyman was Pastor Walter Obgartel .
Mostly Catholic residents have lived in Osieki since 1945 . The place belongs to the parish of Św. Anny in Barcino ( Bartin ) in the Deanery Polanów ( Pollnow ) in the Diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .
Protestant church members are now in charge of the rectory in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
school
Before 1945, Wusseken had its own school building with a teacher's apartment. About 30 children were educated in the school. The names of the last German teachers are Papenfuß , Neubüser and Worbes .
Personality of the place
- Georg von Kleist (* 1852; † July 29, 1923 in Wusseken), landlord, royal Prussian general of the cavalry, politician
literature
- The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Road map PL003: Western Pomerania. Köslin - Stolp - Gdansk . 9th edition, Verlag Höfer, Dietzenbach 2005.
- ↑ Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania ( Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann , ed.). Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 896, No. 87 .