Ostrowice

Ostrowice
	Ostrowice
	Ostrowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Drawsko Pomorskie
Gmina :	Drawsko Pomorskie
Geographic location :	53 ° 38 ' N , 15 ° 58' E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '16 " N , 15 ° 58' 23" E
Residents :	487
Postal code :	78-506
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZDR
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 173 : Połczyn-Zdrój - Drawsko Pomorskie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów
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Ostrowice ( German Wusterwitz ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Drawsko Pomorskie (Dramburg municipality) in the Powiat Drawski (Dramburger Kreis) .

The village was the seat of Gmina Ostrowice , which was dissolved on January 1, 2019.

Geographical location

Ostrowice on the Jezioro Ostrowiec ( Borner See ) and on the Kokna ( Küchenfließ ) is located on the Voivodship road 173 , which connects the two cities Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ) and Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ) and in the district town connection to the state road 20 Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) - Gdynia ( Gdingen ) (former German Reichsstrasse 158 Berlin - Lauenburg in Pomerania ). The next train stations today are Połczyn-Zdrój or Złocieniec .

history

The discovery of stone box graves on the nearby Fuchsberg , which dates from the Stone and Bronze Ages and was provided with rich grave supplements, indicates an early settlement of the area around Wusterwitz .

In 1499, Wusterwitz is mentioned for the first time in a loan letter from Borcke . In 1652 it was noted that the village mug gets its beer from Dramburg . In 1892 the estate was divided. The dairy, the mill and the sawmill were the most important commercial operations in the village, in which the savings and loan fund also had a branch.

Until 1945 Wusterwitz belonged to the district of Dramburg in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . In 1939 there were 543 residents. On March 4, 1945, Soviet troops occupied the village, which came to Poland as a result of the war and which today belongs to the Powiat Drawski in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ) as Ostrowice . From 1973 to 2018 it was the official seat of Gmina Ostrowice.

Gmina Ostrowice

The rural municipality Ostrowice covered an area of 150.30 km², which corresponded to 8.5% of the total area of the Powiat Drawski . At last it had a little more than 2500 inhabitants and was numerically second to last of the 114 municipalities in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . The total of 31 localities in the municipality were assigned to 14 villages with “school offices”. The small village of Chlebowo (Klebow) was the only train station in the former municipality from 1920 until its closure in 1991.

church

Parish church

The Wusterwitz baroque church , built from boulders, stands on a hill in the village. Provided with a semicircular choir closure in the east, a half-timbered roof tower with an octagonal top rises above the west side .

The building inscription names Klaus Ernst von Horn and his wife Eleonora Elisabeth von Kleist as the builders of the church in 1697.

Inside the church, a large baroque altar from around 1700 dominates the room with a picture of the crucified in an oval central field. Next to the altar hangs a trophy epitaph for Ernst von Ungar, who died in 1739 .

After 1945 the previously Protestant church was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church, which consecrated it again and gave it the name Kościół pw.Niepokalanego Najświętszej Maryi Panny .

Parish

Before 1945, most of the residents of Wusterwitz were Protestant . The village was parish seat of the parish Wusterwitz, which also includes the affiliated churches Gersdorf (today Polish: Gawroniec) with Kleinschönberg (Szczycienko) and Ritzig (Nowe Resko) with Laubberg (Prośno) and a portion of cap (Kapice), as well as the towns of Annaberg (Jelenino), Groß Schönberg (Szczytniki), Kronenberg (Dobrosław), Stögeberg and Weißenbruch (Smogorze) belonged.

The parish of Wusterwitz was in the parish of Dramburg in the eastern district of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 there were 1,465 parishioners, of whom 794 belonged to the parish of Wusterwitz. The church patronage was z. Sometimes replaced or distributed among the manor owners of the parish places.

Mostly Catholic residents have lived in Ostrowice since 1945 . The place is still the parish seat, but today belongs to the deanery Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here belong to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The next church is Świdwin ( Schivelbein ).

Pastor until 1945

Kaspar Gellius
Elias Doege, 1652-1655
Kaspar Detschmer, 1656–1687
Christian Mallovius, 1687-1710
Johann Ernst Bökler, 1710–1744
Christian Gottlieb Schmidt, 1744–1794
Daniel Heinrich Stern, 1794–1834
Gustav Friedrich Ludwig Knak , 1834–1850
Albert Ludwig Reinhold Höppner, 1850–1856
Ludwig Hermann Rodenwald, 1856–1863
Johannes Gottlieb Görcke, 1863–1879
Adolf Asmus, 1879–1886
Gustav Karl Friedrich Höft, 1887–1894
Konrad Max Lebrecht Schewe, 1894–1908
Ernst Otto Albrecht Knieß, 1908–1910
Joachim Lüttschwager, 1911–?

Personalities

Theodor Hoppe (1846–1934), Lutheran theologian, pastor and pioneer of the disabled in Germany, was born in the village
Gustav Knak (1806–1878), Lutheran theologian, revival preacher and hymn poet, was a pastor in Wusterwitz from 1834 to 1850.

literature

Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .
Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Edited due to the Steinbrück'schen Ms. . Part 2: Ernst Müller: The administrative district of Köslin . Sannier, Stettin 1912.