Ostrowiec (Malechowo)

Ostrowiec
	Ostrowiec
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Malechowo
Geographic location :	54 ° 17 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '34 "  N , 16 ° 40' 13"  E
Residents :	860
Postal code :	76-129
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 205 Bobolice - Sławno
Rail route :	Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk and Korzybie – Darłowo
Next international airport :	Danzig

Ostrowiec (German Wusterwitz, district Schlawe / Pommern ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the powiat Sławieński ( Schlawe district ).

Geographical location

Ostrowiec is located in Western Pomerania , ten kilometers south of the district town of Sławno on the voivodship road 205 ( Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Polanów ( Pollnow ) - Bobolice ( Bublitz )). The nearest train station is Sławno on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk and Korzybie – Darłowo railway lines . Until 1945 the place was a train station on the small railway line Schlawe – Pollnow – Sydow of the Schlawer Bahnen .

Ostrowiec is bordered by Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ) in the west, Kwasowo ( Quatzow ) and Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ) in the north, by the Rakówka ( Krebsbach ) in the east and by the Grabowa ( Grabow ) and the forest Krąg ( Krangen) ) in the south.

Jezioro Ostrowieckie ( Wusterwitzer See ), which is about 50 hectares in size, is located north of the former estate . In the east, the Kosierzewo Forest and the Białęcino ( Balenthin ) Forest surround the municipality and fall to the glacial valleys of the Rakówka and Grabowa at about 25 meters above sea level. from. The Rakówka rises in the Bagno Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitzer Moor ), which is located to the south and is under nature protection, and flows north to the Wieprza ( Wipper ).

Place name

The name Wusterwitz appeared several times in Pomerania and Brandenburg, as did the name Ostrowiec , which appears eight times in Poland.

history

The village of Wusterwitz bei Schlawe was originally laid out around the church and the manor; later it was expanded into a street village . It is located on old settlement grounds: a circular castle wall with a double ring wall from the Wendish period can be seen north of the Wusterwitzer See in the beech forest.

In 1345 Wusterwitz is mentioned for the first time in a document with a Symso de Wustrouits . In an original feud letter around 1456 Hinrich Ramele to Wusterwitze is cited as a witness. After that, the city remained a fief of those of Ramel until it it to the from Below cede. In 1664 Adam von Podewils (1617–1697) bought the place on Krangen .

In the middle of the 19th century, Oskar Schimmelpfennig bought the estate from the von Podewilschen property. At the turn of the century, the estate was temporarily owned by Prince Hans Heinrich von Pleß ( Pszczyna in Polish ) from Upper Silesia . Heinrich Stenzel was named as the owner until 1928 , after whose death it went bankrupt and was taken over by the Schlawe purchasing and sales association . Major Horst von Wolff acquired a remnant in 1933 .

In 1818 there were 374 inhabitants in Wusterwitz. Their number rose to 781 by 1885 and was 757 in 1939.

At the end of February 1945, Red Army troops reached Grabow and advanced right up to the village. The Wusterwitzers fled towards the Baltic coast on March 4th , but their trek near Stemnitz (Staniewice) - Görshagen (Górsko) was overrun and the refugees were forced to return home. The place was placed under Polish administration, and the immigration of Poles and Ukrainians from areas east of the Curzon Line began , which was accompanied by the expulsion of the German population. Until 1958 there were still a few German families living in Wusterwitz. The village was renamed Ostrowiec and is now part of the Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

Wusterwitz Office

Before 1945 belonged the municipality of Wusterwitz, to which the villages Banow (Polish: Baniewo), Alte Mühle (Stary Żytnik), Vorwerk Balenthin (Białęcinko), Neue Mühle (Nowy Żytnik) and Wusterwitz labor camp (no longer existent today) belonged, with the village of Balenthin (Białęcino) its own administrative district in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . It was in the area of ​​the registry office district Segenthin (Żegocino) and in the district court district of Schlawe.

church

Evangelical

Before 1945, most of the residents of Wusterwitz and the surrounding area were Protestant . The village was united with the villages of Balenthin (Białęcino) and Wiesenthal (Święcianowo) to form the parish Wusterwitz, which formed its own parish with the parish Deutsch Puddiger (Podgórki) (with Segenthin (Żegocino)) . It belonged to the Schlawe parish in the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1940 the parish had a total of 1766 parishioners, 809 from the parish of Wusterwitz and 876 from the parish of Deutsch Puddiger. The landowners von Wusterwitz and Segenthin took on the church patronage .

Since 1945 only a few Protestant residents have lived in Ostrowiec. You are now assigned to the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Pastor

The last pre-Reformation Father Lorenz is buried in the Wusterwitz Church. He was followed by Protestant clergy until 1945:

1. NN. Pantel
2. NN. Pantel (son of 1.)
3. Peter Hille, until 1568
4. NN. Hille (son of 3.)
5. David Berlin, from 1575
6. NN. (Son-in-law of 5.)
7. Martin Colerus, named 1628
8. Martin Colerus (son of 7th), until 1687
9. Paul Jakob Grulich, from 1688
10. NN. Zellner
11. Paul Heinrich Pohlmann, until 1732
12. Jakob Ruhtz, 1733–1755
13. Samuel Rättig, 1755–1777
14. Gotthilf Nathanael Schubert, 1778–1781
15. Michael Heinrich Schmaltz, 1781–1812
16. Johann Georg Ludwig Neumann, 1813–1854
17. Hermann Gustav Goßner, 1854–1863
18. Dr. med. Wilhelm Ludwig Ziemssen, 1865–1867
19. Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Heinrich Lagrange, 1868–1894
20. Franz Albert Gottfried Godlewski, 1895–1897
21. Karl Friedrich Ernst Füchtegott Maaß, 1898–1930
22. Ernst Mahlendorf, 1930–1939
23. Heinz Anger, 1939–1945

Catholic

Before 1945, the few Roman Catholic residents of Wusterwitz were assigned to the parish in Pollnow. Mostly Catholic residents have lived in Ostrowiec since 1945. It was set up on January 29, 1976 its own parish, to which, in addition to the mother church Ostrowiec, also the subsidiary communities Krąg ( Krangen ), Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ) belong. The parish has a total of 2086 parishioners who also have their own place of worship in Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ). The parafia Ostrowiec formed in this way belongs to the Sławno deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Pastor

1. Zbigniew Getka, 1976-1981
2. Nikodem Lewandowicz, 1981-1983
3. Zygmunt Wojciech, 1983-1984
4. Józef Olszewski, 1984-2003
5. Mariusz Żołądkowicz, since 2003

Parish church

The church in Ostrowiec is medieval and was later heavily modified. The tower dates from the second half of the 17th century.

The church has a rich and valuable interior with a lot of carvings on the altar, on the pulpit and on the organ front . It dates from the late 17th century and is due to the von Podewils family in Krangen.

The painted epitaph of the government and legation councilor Joachim von Podewils († 1676) hangs in the church . It stands out due to its extensive ancestry , which is represented by sixteen alliance coats of arms .

After 1945, after more than 400 years of Protestant worship, the church was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church. On December 7th, 1947 it was consecrated again and received - like the whole parish later - the name Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego (Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross).

school

An old and new elementary school for the Wusterwitz and Banow children as well as that of the Balenthin Vorwerk faced each other on Dorfstrasse in Wusterwitz. School lessons were in four classes.

literature

• Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book. 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989.
• Ernst H. von Michaelis: Wusterwitz parish, Schlawe district in Pomerania. (= Writings of the JG Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland eV, Volume 19) Edited by the home district committee Schlawe, J.-G.-Herder-Bibliothek Siegerland, Siegen 1988.
• Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2, Stettin 1912.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wulf-Dietrich von Borcke: Name, helmet and coat of arms - ancestral samples of the Pomeranian nobility in the premodern era . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 4/2013, ISSN  0032-4167 , p. 11.