Rarwino (Białogard)

Rarwino
	Rarwino
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Białogard
Gmina :	Białogard
Geographic location :	53 ° 57 '  N , 15 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '11 "  N , 15 ° 47' 43"  E
Residents :	237 ()
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZBI
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Szczecin-Goleniów

Rarwino ( German  Rarfin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Białogard (municipality of Belgard) in the powiat Białogardzki (Belgarder district) .

Geographical location

Rarwino is located in the northwest of the Białogard District, where the Pokrzywnica (Crooked Water) forms the border with the powiat Kołobrzeski . The distance from Białogard is 14 kilometers via Zagórze ( Sager ) and 17 kilometers via Podwilcze ( Podewils ).

history

The village of Rarwino is a very old Podewils fiefdom, which was still called Rarnin in 1491, but was sometimes also called Rarwin. In 1628 the name Rarfin appears for the first time. In 1729 the place was sold to Major General Hans Friedrich von Platen and remained the property of this family until 1851. After that, the Guse family was the owner and remained so until 1945.

Rarfin was known beyond Pomerania's borders for the oldest and most successful Rarfiner herd book herd owned by landowner Hans Guse.

In 1939 the community of Rarfin covered 1,222.1 hectares and had 376 inhabitants in 83 households. Of the population, 306 worked in agriculture and forestry, 18 in industry and handicrafts and 16 in trade and transport.

Until 1945 Rarfin was the terminus of the small railway line No. 113w from Belgard via Kamissow , which opened in 1909, was 19.4 kilometers in length and was last operated by the “Pomeranian Landbahnen”.

The last German mayor was Otto Elert. The competent district court was that in Belgard.

On March 3, 1945, the Soviet troops , coming from Sager , penetrated Rarfin and occupied the village. The expulsion of the German population began in December 1945 . Rarfin came to Poland as Rarwino and is now part of the rural municipality of Białogard .

Office Rarfin

Until 1945 Rarfin belonged to the Belgard (Persante) district . Rarfin together with the communities Podewils and Zietlow formed the district of Rarfin.

Rarfin registry office

Rarfin was the official seat of the registry office district named after him. These included the communities of Natztow and Sager of the Kamissow and Podewils office , Rarfin with Zietlow of the Rarfin office.

Parish of Rarfin

Parishes

The parish of Rarfin and the parish of Podewils together formed the parish of Rarfin. The parish of the parish of Podewils was Neuhof ( Trzebiec ) and Krampe ( Krępa ), and the parish of Rarfin was the places Natztow , Sager and Zietlow . In 1940 the parish had 1,412 parishioners, of whom 964 belonged to the parish Rarfin and 448 to the parish Podewils.

Until 1945 the parish Rarfin was in the church district Belgard (church Pomerania) of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church patronage was shared by the local landowners: Guse-Rarfin, Freiherr von der Goltz- Zietlow, von Holtzendorff -ager and von Kleist-Kamissow for Rarfin, and von Holtzendorff-Podewils (also for Krampe) and Rusch-Neuhof for Podewils.

Today the place Rarwino belongs to the parish Koszalin (Köslin) ( Diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland ) of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church . The place of the church is Białogard .

Parish church

The church in Rarfin was built in 1735 and is a massive brick building with a half-front tower. The baroque furnishings date from the time the church was built.

The two bronze bells had to be delivered during World War II , including the bell from 1677, which was brought to Rarfin from the Marienkirche Belgard in 1922 . As if by a miracle, this bell was spared from being melted down for ammunition purposes and was loaned to the Protestant parish in Leichlingen in the Rhineland in 1953 , where it is used as a cemetery bell .

school

Rarfin had its own two-class elementary school.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Franz Woken (1685–1734), German pedagogue, historian, linguist and Lutheran theologian.

literature

• The Belgard district: From the history of a Pomeranian home district. Edited by Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989, DNB 911017682
• Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present , 4 parts. Greifswald, 1956–1972.
• German course book. Issue dated January 21, 1940 . Edited by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Oberbetriebsleitung Ost, Berlin 1940.

Footnotes

1. ^ Website of the Powiat Białogardzki, Rarwino , accessed on February 26, 2013