Podgórki (Malechowo)

Podgórki
	Podgórki
	Podgórki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławno
Gmina :	Malechowo
Geographic location :	54 ° 16 ' N , 16 ° 38' E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '27 " N , 16 ° 38' 5" E
Residents :	220
Postal code :	76-129
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Podgórki (German German Puddiger ) 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

Podgórki is ten kilometers south of the district town of Sławno . It is located on a side road that connects Żegocino ( Segenthin ) with Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ) on the voivodship road 205 (Sławno - Polanów ( Pollnow ) - Bobolice ( Bublitz )). Until 1945 the village was a train station on the Schlawe – Pollnow – Sydow small railway line of the Schlawer Bahnen . The next rail connection today is in Sławno on PKP lines no.202 ( Stargard ( Stargard (Pomerania )) - Gdańsk ( Danzig )) and no.418 ( Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Korzybie ( Zollbrück )).

Neighboring communities of Podgórki are: in the west Święcianowo ( Wiesenthal ) and Żegocino ( Segenthin ), in the north Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ), in the east Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ) and in the south Białęcino ( Balenthin ).

Place name

The name Deutsch Puddiger (formerly also Pudegger ) distinguishes the village from Wendisch Puddiger (between 1938 and 1945 only Puddiger ) in the former district of Rummelsburg i. Pom. In Polish, the difference is linguistically refined: Podgórki and Podgóry .

history

In 1325 Deutsch Puddiger is mentioned as a fiefdom of Berndt von Heydebreck . The place name then appears twice in connection with personal names in original feud letters : 1388 with the name Marquart Puddegheres and 1453 with the name Clawes Manduvel tho Puddeguhr .

1784 the village had a Vorwerk , nine farmers, a schoolmaster, a sheep and eight colonist families with a total of 16 fires (households). In 1844 Gustav Heinrich von Blumenthal bought the estate , and it remained in his family. The last owner before 1945 was Horst von Blumenthal .

In 1818 there were 157 inhabitants in Deutsch Puddiger. Their number rose to 301 by 1885, but then dropped to 252 by 1939.

Until 1945, Deutsch Puddiger with the district Felixhof (Polish Uniesław) and the communities Segenthin (Żegocino) and Wiesenthal (Święcianowo) belonged to the district of Segenthin in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . Regarding the registry office , the village was also oriented towards Segenthin with the two other communities as well as Wusterwitz (Ostrowiec) and Balenthin (Białęcino), and the competent district court was in Schlawe .

When the troops of the Red Army reached the Grabow (Grabowa) and broke through to the north, the population of Deutsch Puddiger fled on March 5, 1945 and got as far as the area of Klein Runow (Runowo Sławieńskie). There they were overtaken by the Soviet troops and forced to return home. Until 1957, Germans lived in the place, which came under Polish administration under the name Podgórki and today belongs to Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

church

Parish

With the exception of two Catholics, the population of Deutsch Puddiger was of the Protestant denomination in 1939 . The village formed an independent parish into which the place Segenthin was incorporated. As such, Deutsch Puddiger was a branch community in the parish of Wusterwitz , which also included the places Balenthin and Wiesenthal . The parish was in Wusterwitz Kirchenkreis Schlawe the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 there were 1766 parishioners, of whom 876 belonged to the Deutsch Puddiger parish. The church patron was last landowner Horst von Blumenthal . The last German clergyman was Pastor Heinz Anger.

Since 1945 the inhabitants of Podgórki have been predominantly Roman Catholic . Furthermore, the place is a subsidiary community in the parish of Ostrowiec , which now also includes the subsidiary communities Krąg ( Krangen ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ). The Ostrowiec Parish is located in the Sławno deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant residents are now integrated into the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Village church

The church is a simple building made of bricks and field stones, built around the beginning of the 16th century. The tower was renewed between 1690 and 1705. In 1718 Adam von Podewils gave two pewter altar candlesticks. A copper baptismal bowl dates from 1615.

Protestant services took place in the church for over 400 years until it was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church after the Second World War. It rededicated it on July 7, 1947 and placed it under the patronage of St. Joseph, the Worker .

school

In 1910, a one-class school with a teacher's apartment was built in Deutsch Puddiger after the old school house burned down. 30-35 children were taught, the number rising to 50 during the war years, when the Balenthiner children also attended school. The last teacher was Walter Gerth .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Kurt Schwerdtfeger (1897–1966), German sculptor and university lecturer

literature

The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989.