Smardzko

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Smardzko (German name Simmatzig ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) in the Schivelbein district .

Geographical location

The former manor village Smardzko is six kilometers east of the district town of Świdwin on Voivodeship Road No. 152 between Świdwin and Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ). Rega delimits the town to the east and the city (Miasto) Świdwin to the west. Smardzko is a train station on the Świdwin – Połczyn-Zdrój line , which only exists as a freight line between Smardzko and the district town. The former estate is located in the northern part of the village.

Local history

"Czymartz" is mentioned in the Neumark Landbuch in 1337 and is assigned to the Land Schivelbein. In 1376 Pastor Johannas Dünow received his office from Johann von Wedel , Lord von Schivelbein.

In 1540 Simmatzig came to the Order of St. John and from 1736 to 1808 he was forced to use the Schivelbein Castle Mill.

148 inhabitants lived here in 1803, 404 in 1861 and 431 in 1939 (in 106 households). In 1931 the area of ​​the municipality was 1,447.1 hectares, large fertile arable land as well as well-tended meadows and the grassland in the Rega lowlands shaped the townscape.

Hubert Kannenberg's estate was known far beyond the borders of Pomerania with its herdbook cattle breeding .

  • Gut Kannenberg, mansion, front view

  • Gut Kannenberg, back of the manor house

An emergency landing airfield was built between Simmatzig and Nemmin , which was expanded into a large airfield after 1945 .

Until 1945 Simmatzig was in the district court area of ​​Schivelbein. The last German mayor was Willi Popp, who also ran the postal agency that had been in existence since 1889.

At the beginning of 1945, numerous refugees from East Prussia came to the town and sought protection here. You and the village population were surrounded by Russian troops on March 3, 1945. Many residents were shot or abducted in the aftermath. Landowner Hubert Kannenberg was shot while being abducted on the road to Bad Polzin when his legs failed while running. In the fall of 1945, took place the expulsion of the local population. Simmatzig came under Polish administration and as Smardzko is today part of the rural community (Gmina) Świdwin.

Office Simmatzig

Until 1945, Simmatzig and Nemmin formed their own administrative district, which belonged to the Schivelbein district until 1932, when it was integrated into the Belgard (Persante) district . The last head of office was Willi Dopke.

Simmatzig registry office

Simmatzig and Nemmin were also connected to the common registry office district. The last German registrars were Alwin Schülke and from 1934 Otto Korth.

church

Parish

The parish of Simmatzig, for which a separate pastor was named in 1376, was part of the parish of the Marienkirche Schivelbein until 1945 . The clergyman of the second pastor's office there (most recently Pastor Detlv Rewald) was responsible for Simmatzig, which in 1940 had 500 parishioners. The place was in the church district Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Smardzko belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church . The place of the church is Świdwin.

Village church

The Simmatzig church is a three-sided closed half-timbered building . On the west side there is a roof turret with a retracted helmet and a weather vane from 1717. The church is located on a hill and is surrounded by old trees.

school

The names of Egon Augspurg (until 1929) and most recently Otto Korth (until 1945) are known as teachers of the Simmatziger School.

Personalities

  • Erich von Neindorff (1894-1993), politician (NSDAP), was a landowner in the village
  • Hans Marquardt (1920–2004), one of the most important publishers in the GDR, was born in Simmatzig

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 ° 47 '  N , 15 ° 52'  E