Rusinowo (Postomino)

Beach

Rusinowo (German name: Rützenhagen, Schlawe district in Pomerania ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Postomino ( Pustamin ) in Sławno ( Schlawe ) district.

Geographical location

The two kilometer long street village Rusinowo is located on the 1904/1906 built road from Drozdowo (Drosedow) to Łącko ( Lanzig ). The place is 1.1 to 28.3 meters above sea level and borders in the north with dune forest and two kilometers of beach on the Baltic Sea . The nearest train station is Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ), 15 kilometers away on the Darłowo – Sławno– Miastko ( Rummelsburg in Pomerania ) - Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) railway .

history

Place name

The German name means "to the enclosures of utz" and is named after the initiator ( locator ) who founded the village with German settlers.

Local history

Rützenhagen was founded around 1300. In an old document - probably from 1312 - the village is mentioned with other places that were obliged to evacuate the Lütow (old arm of the Wipper between Rügenwaldermünde (now in Polish: Darłówko ) and Vitter See (Jez. Kopań)).

The number of farms remained unchanged for centuries: 1 Schulze, 19 farmers and 3 Kossäts.

Rützenhagen was an official village of the Rügenwalde office . The Rützenhagen farmers also took part in sea trade, fishing and “beach rights”. Flax was also grown and woven into linen. So the place delivered sailcloth to Rügenwalde and shirt cloth to Stolp and Stettin .

After Russian troops had taken Rützenhagen on March 9, 1945, the place - like all of Western Pomerania - was placed under Polish administration. Immigration from Poland began, mainly from areas east of the Curzon Line . The German population was expelled . Rützenhagen is now part of the Gmina Postomino ( Pustamin ) under the Polish name Rusinowo .

Local division until 1945

Before 1945 there were three localities in the municipality of Rützenhagen:

Elchhagen (Low German Elkenhagen , derived from "Elk" = Iltis), mining in the south of the village with three Büdner sites , originated in the 19th century on parcels of the former Schulzenhof

Fleeing Hagen (today Polish Radziszkowo), reduction in the northwest of the village with a Büdnerstelle, a double and a single house, whose name possibly by a retreat in the Seven Years' War derives: at that time the residents Rützenhagens brought their wives and children from 200 quartered Russians in Hasselhorst safe

Stegenort , Kätnerstelle in the northwest of the village.

church

Parish

The Protestant parish of Rützenhagen belonged to Rützenhagen, Jershöft (Jarosławiec) and Schönenberg (Bylica) with a total of 871 parishioners in 1940. The parish was in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the Protestant residents of Rusinowo belong to the Pomerania-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Since 1945, predominantly Catholic church members have lived in Rusinowo. The parish is now - like the neighboring town Jarosławiec - a branch church of the parish Łącko ( Lanzig ), which belongs to the deanery Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Parish church

The church is visible from afar in the middle of the village on a hill, surrounded by an old, circular cemetery wall made of field stones. The church was built as a single-nave brick church in 1873. The tower measures 42 meters in altitude.

Only the baptism from 1636 was taken over from the previous church (an old fieldstone building ). In the church there was an oil painting " The Lamentation of Christ " by Anton Weber in the year 1898 in the altarpiece . A model of an ancient sailing ship also hung from the ceiling.

After 1945, after more than 400 years, the church was expropriated as a Protestant church in favor of the Catholic Church. On April 7, 1946 she received a new ordination and the name Narodzenia NMP ( Mary's Birth ).

Pastor 1594–1945

Johann Rohde, 1594–1640
Luke Salamanus, 1599
Martin Richter, 1636–1671
Johann Gottfried Richter (son of 3rd), 1671–1688
Johann Roth, 1689-1691
Christoph Schadelock, 1691–1710
Erdmann Sasse, 1711-1740
Johann Gottfried Läuen, 1739–1743
Johann Friedrich Rahn, 1743–1794
Carl Ludwig Thiele, 1786–1812
Georg Peter Gieseler, 1814-1830
Johann Karl Just, 1832–1847
Julius Albert Emil Palis, 1847–1885
Leopold Wilhelm Paul Koeppen, 1885–1938
vacant 1938–1945 (vacancy representative: Franz Birken, pastor in Barzwitz )

school

Until 1820 the children were taught in the house of the school keeper (sexton) or in turn from house to house. After that, lessons were held in the newly built school building next to the church. Since 1936 the children from Vitte (Wicie) have also attended school in Rützenhagen.

Teacher 1820-1945

Franz Butow
Carl Vehlow
Carl Friday
Heinrich Seewöster
Wilhelm Kollath
Johann Schäfertöns
from 1939 Otto Parlow from Barzwitz

literature

Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book. 2 vol., Husum 1986/1989
Karl Rosenow among others: Rützenhagen in the Rügenwalder office. Rügenwalde 1932
Hans Moderow among others: The clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. 2 vols., Stettin 1903/1912

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