Rzechcino

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Rzechcino
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Rzechcino (Poland)
Rzechcino
Rzechcino
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Pomerania
Powiat : Slupsk
Gmina : Potęgowo
Geographic location : 54 ° 32 '  N , 17 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '57 "  N , 17 ° 22' 32"  E
Residents : 380
Telephone code : (+48) 59
License plate : GSL
Economy and Transport
Street : Potęgowo - Stowięcino
Rail route : Railway line Gdańsk – Stargard
Railway station: Potęgowo
Next international airport : Danzig



Rzechcino (German Rexin ) is a village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .

Geographical location

Rzechcino is located in Western Pomerania , between the villages of Łupawa ( Lupow ) and Łeba ( Leba ). In the northwest there is a forest area, but the surrounding area is mainly used for agriculture. Nearby is a valley from the Ice Age that stretches from Rzechcino to Główczyce ( Glowitz ).

history

Rexin was an old fiefdom of a family of the same name. The estate was owned by this Rexin family until 1804 , after which it belonged to a von Kösteritz family up to and including 1846 . In 1846 it was sold to a senior bailiff named Karl Eduard Wüstenberg for 60,000 thalers . His son Karl Wüstenberg later extensively modernized the estate and introduced new technical equipment for management. The Wüstenberg community of heirs is recorded as the last owner of the property . The estate covered a total of 936 hectares . In March 1945, many of the residents finally fled from Rexin, which was occupied by six to ten Soviet tanks at 12 noon on March 9.

After the end of the war, Rexin, like all of the Pomerania , came to Poland. Polish citizens took over the management of the property for several years with Germans as forced laborers. In 1952 there were still 175 Germans living in Rzechcino. The Pomeranian hometown index lists 219 displaced persons for the former Rexin, of which 171 were in the Federal Republic of Germany and 48 in the GDR at the time of recording . Nineteen of the residents died in the war and ten civilian casualties were lost. 32 people are missing.

church

Before 1945, the village population was almost exclusively Protestant . In 1925, a person of Catholic denomination lived in Rexin. The village belonged to the parish of Stojentin (today Polish: Stowięcino) in the church district of Stolp-Altstadt of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Rudolf Kaun . Today the Protestant church members living in Rzechcino belong to the church in Główczyce ( Glowitz ), which is a branch church in the parish of the Kreuzkirche parish in Słupsk ( Stolp ) within the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Since 1945, the majority of the population of Rzechcino has been Catholic. In Rzechcino its own church was built, which bears the name Kościół Świętego Jana Bosko Kapłana and is now a branch church of the parish of Stowięcino ( Stojentin ). She belongs to the deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland .

school

The Rexin manor, probably between 1912 and 1945

Little is known about the education system in Rexin. A first schoolmaster is mentioned in the records in 1767. In 1932, 76 school children were taught by two teachers in a two-tier elementary school in Rexin.

Former manor house

  • The manor house fell victim to a fire at the end of the war.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 814–816 (Description of the place Rexin ; PDF)
  • German Gender Book, Pomerania 8, Volume 155; 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 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. 996-997, No. 110.