Płytnica (Tarnówka)

Płytnica ( German Plietnitz ) is a village with about 190 inhabitants in the rural community Tarnówka ( Tarnowke ) in the powiat Złotowski ( Flatower district ) of the Polish Voivodeship of Greater Poland .

Geographical location

The place is located in Western Pomerania in the valley of the Küddow ( Gwda ) at the confluence of the Plietnitz ( Plitnica ) in the Küddow, about six kilometers southwest of the village Tarnowke ( Tarnówka ), fifteen kilometers southwest of the city Flatow ( Złotów ) and twenty kilometers east-northeast of the city German crown ( Wałcz ). The Plietnitz river flows through the middle of the village.

history

In the past the village was known as Neu-Plietnitz (1612), Plitnica (1641), Plytwicz (1660), Plitwicz (1738); his New Polish name was Plotnica . The place name comes from the Plietnitz river, which flows through the village and whose name means 'floodable brook'.

The border region in which the village is located originally belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania , was temporarily under Polish rule and then passed to the Margraves of Brandenburg. As part of the first partition of Poland-Lithuania, the village came to Prussia in 1772 together with the Deutsch Krone district . The village, in which there was a water mill in the 19th century, belonged to the Lebehnke office.

Around 1930 the municipal boundaries of Plietnitz covered an area of 17.8 km²; There were 87 inhabited houses at various places in the municipality.

Before 1945 Plietnitz belonged to the district German crown in the administrative district of Posen-West Prussia the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . Shortly afterwards Plietnitz was placed under Polish administration. As long as they did not flee, the residents were expelled in the following period . Plietnitz was renamed Płytnica .

The village was part of Gmina Tarnówka in the powiat Złotowski in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (until 1998 Piła Voivodeship ( Schneidemühl )).

Population numbers

1864: 495, including 413 Evangelicals and 78 Catholics
1925: 470, including 60 Catholics, no Jews.
1933: 438
1939: 442

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmitt : History of the Deutsch-Croner circle . Thorn 1867 ( e-copy )

Web links

Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft: The community of Plietnitz in the former Deutsch Krone district in Pomerania (2011)
William Remus: Plietnitz (Płytnica), Kreis Deutsch Krone, West Prussia (2004) (English)

Footnotes

↑ Schmitt (1867), p. 228.
↑ http://gemeinde.plietnitz.kreis-deutsch-krone.de/
^ E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the administrative district Marienwerder . Danzig 1868. List of localities in the Marienwerder administrative district , pp. 64–65, no. 193.
↑ http://gemeinde.plietnitz.kreis-deutsch-krone.de
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. deutschkrone.html # ew39dtkriplitntz. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

53.3065 16.7934Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ' N , 16 ° 48' E

[1] Schmitt (1867), p. 228.

[2] ttp://gemeinde.plietnitz.kreis-deutsch-krone.de/

[3] E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the administrative district Marienwerder . Danzig 1868. List of localities in the Marienwerder administrative district , pp. 64–65, no. 193.

[4] ttp://gemeinde.plietnitz.kreis-deutsch-krone.de

[MR-5] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. deutschkrone.html # ew39dtkriplitntz. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).