Rzepczyno

Rzepczyno ( German Repzin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the municipality (Gmina) Brzeżno ( Briesen ) in the district Świdwin ( Schivelbein ).

Geographical location

Rzepczyno is ten kilometers south of Świdwin and can be reached after two kilometers via the Provincial Road No. 162 Świdwin– Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ) via Brzeżno. There is also a side road from Świdwin via Koszanowo ( Kussenow ) to the small community on Jezioro Rzepczyno ( Repziner Lake ). The former so-called Strittkenbach flows through the village, which flows through the Jezioro Rzepczyno into the lake near Więcław ( Venzlaffshagen ).

history

The former Barenwinkel estate (now in Polish: Mulite) in the northeast and the Brandenbruch settlement in the south belong to Repzin . In the Repziner See there are remains of an old castle rampart. However, the village was first mentioned in a document in the Neumark Land Book in 1337 as part of the Schivelbein region. In 1500 were gossips Rützen of Elector John and Albert I of Brandenburg-Ansbach with 27½ hooves in the village invested . The owner of Repzin, von Bonin, received 9000 thalers royal pardons from Frederick the Great .

In 1843 the place had 181 inhabitants; 1884 five farmers, one is half-Bauer , a Kossät , two Halbkossäten and twenty owners listed. In 1882 there was a mill and a brick factory, as well as a post office and a telegraph. In 1939 there were 535 inhabitants in 108 households in the 1313.7 hectare community.

Most of the population lived from agriculture. In the village there were also two tailors 'shops, a shoemaker's shop, a blacksmith's shop, a wheelwright shop, two carpenters' shops and a construction shop, as well as a grocery store with a pub.

The municipality of Repzin belonged to the district and registry office district Langenhaken as well as to the district court area Schivelbein . Repzin was a place in the Schivelbein district until it was incorporated into the Belgard district with the district reform in 1932 . The last German mayor was Paul Stabenow.

The Repziner retirement and tuberculosis home in the Belgard district (until 1927 an educational institution of the German-Israelite Community Association ) was known beyond the town's borders .

On March 4, 1945, Russian troops coming from Briesen penetrated Repzin. This was followed notvolle times before the population from the region sold was.

Today Repzin is under the Polish name Rzepczyno a part of the rural municipality Brzeżno in the powiat Świdwiński , the re-established Polish district Schivelbein.

church

Parish

Repzin was an independent parish, with the parishes Labenz and Karsbaum the parish formed Labenz. It was in the Schivelbeiner Kirchenkreis within the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1940 the Repzin parish had 850 parishioners who - as the last German clergyman - were looked after by Pastor Wilhelm Rohde.

Today in Rzepczyno there is a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish of the Ascension of Christ in Brzeżno ( Wniebowstąpienia Pańskiego w Brzeżnie ), which belongs to the Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) deanery within the Köslin-Kolberg diocese .

Within the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church , Rzepczyno is part of the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland . But after the Germans left, there are no longer any Protestant Christians in the town.

Village church

In Repzin there was a foundling church that was built in the 17th century and has since been changed and plastered . The door fitting bore the year 1608. The bell chair stood next to the church.

school

The Repziner School was headed by Willi Weber until 1938, by Max Fröhlich from 1938 to 1939, and after 1939 by Paul Genz from Briesen as well as by teacher Vierennen from Venzlaffshagen .

Remarkable

The legend of the Knight von der Mildenburg, who lived as Günther von Briesen at Repzin Castle centuries ago, was loved to be told in Repzin. Everything that he could see with his eyes from here he called his own: Repzin, Karsbaum , Labenz , Briesen , Kussenow and Schlönwitz .

In Repzin there was the field name "Streitsand". The sand was the subject of a dispute until the miller von Repzin took the oath: "The sand I am standing on already belonged to my father!" He had put sand from his father's property into his wooden slippers and was literally standing on his father's sand.

literature

• Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee (ed.): The Belgard district. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '  N , 15 ° 49'  E