Quilitz
Quilitz is a district of the municipality of Rankwitz in Lieper Winkel on the island of Usedom . The former fishing village, which today lives from moderate tourism, is located on the Peenestrom .
history
From the 7th century on, Quilitz, like the entire island of Usedom, was inhabited by Slavs. Proof of this is the discovery of 3.2 kg of silver coins from the 9th to 11th centuries, as well as 2.4 kg of jewelry and hacked silver, recovered west of Quilitz in 1914 . Robert Beltz reviewed it scientifically and published its results in 1927. In addition to predominantly German coins from the reigns of Heinrich II. And Otto III. in between were English coins from the same period, several Arabic coins from the 10th century and two Roman coins from the 2nd century. This was taken as an indication that the Slavs in this area were already trading with more distant regions by water. The coins can be viewed today in the Swinoujscie Museum .
The place was mentioned in a document in 1317 as "Quyltze". In it, Duke Wartislaw IV is said to have given the Pudagla monastery general confirmation. The place belonged to the property of the Premonstratensian Canons of Pudagla , who lived in the Grobe monastery near Usedom (town) before 1309 . This document was subsequently recognized as fake, like so many documents from the monastery.
A mention from 1421 with the name "Quiltze" is to be regarded as the really first documented mention. This Slavic name is interpreted as "lamentation".
After that there were only a few sources left until 1618. The place shared the history of the island of Usedom under the Pomeranian dukes and the Swedes after the Thirty Years War . After the war and the plague, the population here and in all of Pomerania decimated to almost a third. An inventory of the population in Quilitz in 1666 counted four heads of household, three farmers and a kötter . In the Swedish survey of 1693, the only difference is that a farmer was also mayor .
After the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720, Rankwitz, like all of Usedom, officially came to Prussia .
In terms of shape, the place was round with a ring road and in terms of its function it was a farming and fishing village. In the maps from 1835, 1880 and 1920 no changes in the location can be seen.
Only in TK 10 of the GDR can a larger holiday settlement be seen there. Around 1980 the forest area on the coast of Quilitz was developed by a holiday colony. Before the fall of the Wall, businesses and families had their dachas here . Characteristic for the facilities are bungalows or houses with a triangular, thatched roof (type Finnhütte ), which are preferably rented by guests who come to fish, sail, bike and hike. Paths run along the Peene River to Warthe or through the inland to Liepe . This holiday complex was expanded and modernized after 1990. There are now almost 100 holiday homes there.
On July 1, 1950, Quilitz was incorporated into Rankwitz.
Infrastructure
The only main road that was built from 1896 to 1898 as a so-called “stone railway” (cobblestone street) through the Lieper Winkel does not involve Quilitz. There was only a ramified network of land roads. In the summer of 2005, a concrete slab path built in GDR times, starting from Rankwitz, was the only branch connection accessible by vehicle. This was modernized and planted in autumn of the same year.
Tourist destinations
- Fine sandy beach on the Peenestrom
- Small pleasure boat harbor
literature
- Robert Beltz: The treasure trove of Quilitz (District Usedom-Wollin). In: Baltic Studies . New series, Vol. 24, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1927, pp. 150-206
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 48 ff
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Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ' N , 13 ° 55' E