Sośnica (Wierzchowo)

Sośnica (German Herzberg ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . The village belongs to the Gmina Wierzchowo (rural community Virchow) in the Powiat Drawski (Dramburger Kreis) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 15 km south of the city of Czaplinek (Tempelburg) . Voivodship road 177 runs through the village in a north-south direction . The closest neighboring towns are Będlino (Neuhof) in the west and Otrzep (Friedrichshorst) in the east .

Earlier there was a station of the Kleinbahn Deutsch Krone – Virchow in Herzberg . The railway line is closed today.

history

The village of Herzberg was created in 1765.

Before 1945, Herzberg formed a rural community in the Dramburg district in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

In 1945 the village, like all of Western Pomerania, came to Poland. The village received the Polish place name Sośnica .

Development of the population

1925: 309 inhabitants
1933: 303 inhabitants
1939: 310 inhabitants

church

The Herzberg Church was a half-timbered building from the 19th century. In the church there was a pulpit altar from 1725, which came from the earlier Protestant church of the city of Tempelburg .

literature

Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 152.

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dramburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

53.432777777778 16.201666666667Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ' N , 16 ° 12' E

[VG-1] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dramburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).