Rokity (Czarna Dąbrówka)

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Rokity (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Bytów
Gmina : Czarna Dąbrówka
Geographic location : 54 ° 20 '  N , 17 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '14 "  N , 17 ° 41' 6"  E
Residents : 548 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 77-123
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GBY
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 211 : Nowa DąbrowaSierakowice
OskowoJasień
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Rokity (German Groß Rakitt , Kasch. Wieldżé Roczitczi ) is a Kashubian village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Czarna Dąbrówka ( Schwarz Damerkow ) in the Bytowski powiat ( Bütow district ).

Geographical location and transport links

Rokity is located in Western Pomerania , about 26 kilometers northeast of the district town of Bytów ( Bütow ). Voivodship road 211 runs through the village, which connects Nowa Dąbrowa ( Neu Damerow ) on Polish state road 6 (former German Reichsstraße 2 , now also European road 28 ) with Żukowo ( Zuckau ) on state road 20 .

211 Voivodeship Road in Rokity ( Groß Rakitt )

Until 1945 there was a railway connection via the Helenenhof station (now in Polish: Kostroga) on the Lauenburg – Bütow (Lębork – Bytów) line. Between 1920 and 1939 the eastern municipal border was also the German-Polish state border ( Polish corridor ).

Place name

Older forms of the name are Rokitke (1377) and Rakitken (1601). The Polish place name Rokity occurs again in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

history

Rakitt east-southeast of Stolp (left half of the picture, can be enlarged by clicking), between Lauenburg i. Pom. and Bütow , on a map from 1910.

Groß Rakitt was one of the former noble estates in Western Pomerania. It is mentioned in a document as early as 1377. In 1505 it was a Pirch , later a Münchow fief.

After several changes of ownership in 1781, Groß Rakitt passed from the Münchows to the Rittmeister Siegmund Adam von Wildberg , who owned it until 1835. At that time it had a Vorwerk , five farmers, two half-farmers, four Kossäten , a schoolmaster, on the field mark the Vorwerk Philippsruhe with a forge and six other skating - a total of 38 fires.

In 1861, Oberamtmann Zabel acquired Groß Rakitt from Neumark . The last owners were Joachim Lüttke in 1893 and then Landesbank AG. in Berlin .

On June 14, 1920, a commission in Groß Rakitt established the German-Polish border on the basis of the Treaty of Versailles . The demarcation of the border cut up nine peasants' property, not to mention the friendships and family ties between many families.

In 1910 Groß Rakitt had 363 inhabitants. In 1933 their number was 387, and in 1939 there were 314.

Until 1945 Groß Rakitt belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . It was incorporated into the official and registry office district Bochowke (1937-45 Hohenlinde , today Polish: Bochówko) and was located in the district court area Lauenburg in Pomerania (Lębork).

Towards the end of the Second World War , Groß Rakitt was occupied by Soviet troops on March 8, 1945 and soon after the end of the war, together with all of Western Pomerania, it was placed under Polish administration. Great Rakitt was renamed Rokity . The villagers were evicted .

Later, 176 villagers displaced from Groß Rakitt in the Federal Republic of Germany and 59 in the GDR were identified.

The village was from 1945 to 1954 the official seat of the rural community named after him Rokity, but now belongs to the Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka in the powiat Bytowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975 to 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). The place has about 550 inhabitants.

church

The parish church in Rokity ( Groß Rakitt )

Parish church

On the occasion of a general church visit in 1891, it was decided to build a church for Groß Rakitt. The foundation stone was laid in 1907, and the construction of the church was completed in 1909 - as a simple but venerable wood and stone structure. A Protestant church until 1945 , it was then expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church. This rededicated it and gave it the name Kościół św. Andrzeja Boboli (" St. Andreas Bobola Church ").

Parish / Parish

The then Protestant parish Groß Rakitt was founded on April 1, 1909. Until then there was a parish office connection to Mickrow (now Polish: Mikorowo). As early as 1894, parish vicars were sent specifically for the area of ​​the later parish, who lived first in Kosemühl (Kozin), then in Klein Rakitt (Rokitki) and later in Groß Rakitt. With the establishment of a parish, a parish office was also established.

The parish Groß Rakitt, which was assigned to the parish of Stolp-Altstadt in the church province of Pomerania, belonged to the church of the Old Prussian Union from 1909 to 1945:

In 1940 the parish of Groß Rakitt had 1,455 parishioners. The state authorities were responsible for church patronage .

Since 1945 predominantly Catholic church members have lived in the area of ​​the former Protestant parish. The place remained the parish seat, but the current parish Rokity belongs to the newly formed deanery Łupawa ( Lupow ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland . A branch church was built in Jasień ( Jassen ).

The rectory in Rokity

The following places belong to the parish:

Protestant church members living in Rokity today belong to the parish of the Kreuzkirche parish in Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the Pomerania-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , from where services were held in Rokity until the beginning of the 21st century. Now, however, the next church town is Lębork ( Lauenburg in Pomerania ).

Pastor until 1945

Between 1894 and 1909 officiated as parish vicars in the later parish of Groß Rakitt:

  • August Theodor Frit Bock, 1894–1895
  • Max Emil Oskar Kamrath, 1895
  • Paul Emil Karl Lentz, 1895–1897
  • Samuel Otto Bogislaw Plantiko, 1897–1900
  • Wilhelm August Gotthilf Gabler, 1900–1901
  • Otto Johannes Andreas Dibbelt, 1901–1905
  • Otto Theodor Erich Sendler, 1906–1909

From 1909 the following ministers officiated in Groß Rakitt:

  • Otto Theodor Erich Sendler, 1909–1912
  • Max Georg Juhr, 1912-1919
  • Georg König, 1919–1929
  • NN. Schneider, 1931-1933
  • Wilhelm Rieck, 1933–1940
  • Kurt Huebner, 1940–1945

On June 29, 1939 , the Secret State Police in Köslin issued a ban on pastor Rieck, who held his first pastor here, in the border districts of Stolp, Bütow, Lauenburg and Rummelsburg on the grounds that he rejected the National Socialist state and joined the Jewish Tabor family Keep in touch in Greater Rakitt. Rieck was then removed from the rectory on August 8, 1940 by the consistory of the Pomeranian Province in Stettin.

school

Already at the end of the 18th century there was a schoolmaster in Groß Rakitt. In the 1932 three-tier elementary school, two teachers taught 75 school children in three classes. The last German teachers were Paul Lemke and Wilhelm Nitz .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 542–545 ( description of the place Groß Rakitt ; PDF)
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 995-996, No. 106 and pp. 951-953, No. 19.
  • Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2, Stettin 1912.
  • Hans Glaser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania . Part 2, Stettin 1940.
  • Alfred Dreyfeldt: On the German-Polish corridor border in the Stolp district . In: Ostpommersche Heimat 1932, No. 10 and 11.

Web links

Commons : Rokity  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 545 ( Description of the place Groß Rakitt ; PDF)