Rurka (Chojna)

Rurka (German Rörchen ) is a place in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . He belongs to the urban and rural community Chojna ( Königsberg in the Neumark ) in the Powiat Gryfiński ( Greifenhagener Kreis ).

Geographical location

The place is in Western Pomerania on the border with Neumark , about five kilometers northeast of Chojna ( Königsberg in der Neumark ) and about 50 kilometers south of Stettin .

history

Chapel of the former Templar Commandery

Rörchen was founded on the river Röhrike as a branch ( commandery ) of the Knights Templar . The branch was in the land of Bahn , which Duke Barnim I of Pomerania had given to the Knights Templar in 1234. The mention of Rorkam in a document of Duke Barnim I from 1244 possibly refers to the place, but possibly also just to the river. In 1248 Bishop Wilhelm von Cammin issued a document in Rörchen . Friedrich (1263), Dietrich, Bernhard von Eberstein and Jordan von Esebeck have been handed down as Commander of the Templars in Rörchen .

With the abolition of the Knights Templar in 1312, Duke Otto I of Pomerania handed over its property to the Order of St. John , including Rörchen. The Johanniter also maintained a commandery in Rörchen; Henning von Buch was named as the first Komtur in 1334. The buildings of the Commandery were destroyed in a feud by the citizens of the city of Königsberg in Neumark in 1377 , only the chapel remained. The Order of St. John then moved its Commandery to Wildenbruch .

Around 1779 there was a farm and 39 households in Rörchen .

Before 1945, Rörchen was a municipality in the district of Greifenhagen in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

In 1945 Rörchen came to Poland , like all of Western Pomerania . The Polish state gave the place the name Rurka . The German population was replaced by Polish immigrants.

Development of the population

1925: 406
1933: 374
1939: 319

Attractions

The chapel of the former Templerkomturei is about get halfway. It had been converted into a distillery in 1874, with the eastern gable and vaults removed.
The village church is a half-timbered building without a tower with a pulpit altar from the 18th century.

literature

Ernst Bahr, Klaus Conrad : Rörchen . In: Helge bei der Wieden , Roderich Schmidt (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 12: Mecklenburg / Pomerania (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 315). Kröner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-520-31501-7 , pp. 261-262.
Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 299.

Web links

Commons : Rurka (powiat gryfiński) - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Rörchen in the home district of Greifenhagen

Footnotes

^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 427.
^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 464.
^ ^A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Grabhagen.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

52.991388888889 14.485Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ N , 14 ° 29 ′ E

[1] Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 427.

[2] Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Vienna 1970, No. 464.

[VG-3] A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Grabhagen.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).