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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Koszalin
Gmina :	Polanów
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 ′  N , 16 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  N , 16 ° 30 ′ 9 ″  E
Residents :	100
Postal code :	76-010
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kościernica - Krytno
Next international airport :	Gdansk or Stettin-Goleniów

Sowinko (German Neu Zowen) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the municipality of Polanów (Pollnow) in the Powiat Koszaliński (Köslin) .

Geographical location

Sowinko is located 23 kilometers southeast of the district town of Koszalin and 14 kilometers northwest of Polanów (Pollnow) on a wide cleared area, the highest peaks of which reach up to 97 meters above sea level. The traffic connection is via Kościernica (Kösternitz) on the Voivodship Road 206, which leads from Koszalin via Polanów to Miastko (Rummelsburg) . Until 1945 there was a connection to the railway line (Köslin -) Natzlaff - Pollnow of the Schlawer Bahnen via the five kilometers south of Natzlaff (now in Polish: Nacław)  . A narrow path connects Sowinko (Neu Zowen) in Gmina Polanów with Sowno (Alt Zowen) in Gmina Sianów (Zanow) .

The field mark of Sowinko borders on the neighboring villages Kościernica in the west, Powidz (Friedensdorf) and Sowno with Krytno (Kritten) in the north and east, and Nacław in the south. In some parts the border is formed by the Polnica (Pollnitz) , which rises northwest of Sowinko and flows into the Jezioro Jamno (Jamunder Lake) north of Koszalin.

Place name

The German place name Neu Zowen ( going back to the Slavic sowa = owl ) was created as a demarcation to Zowen , then Alt Zowen .

history

The exact time when the village of Neu Zowen was built is not known. However, it was likely to precede the Stein-Hardenberg reforms for peasant liberation and the settlement was influenced by them. In 1784 the place did not exist yet. In 1864, however, there were already 236 inhabitants, the number of which rose to 395 in 1905 and dropped to 355 in 1939.

Until 1945, Neu Zowen and its Stubbenkathen district belonged to the Zowen district with its headquarters in Alt Zowen. In addition to Alt and Neu Zowen, the municipalities Friedensdorf (now Polish: Powidz) and Latzig (Laski) also belonged to this district . The office was in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The communities were also connected to one another at a civil registry office.

On March 1, 1945, Red Army troops occupied the village. A few days later, many villagers were deported to the Soviet Union. From autumn 1945 Polish families took over the farms, and the expulsion of the locals began in April 1946. Neu Zowen became part of Gmina Polanów in the Powiat Koszaliński of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ) as Sowinko .

church

Until 1945, Neu Zowen belonged to the Protestant parish of Zowen, which in turn was a branch church in the parish of Kösternitz (Kościernica), together with Alt Zowen (now in Polish: Sowno), Kritten (Krytno) and Friedensdorf (Powidz) . This belonged to the church district Köslin (Koszalin) of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania in the church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm Schubring.

Today Sowinko part of the Roman Catholic Church community Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) which in turn Filialkirche Parish Szczeglino ( Steglin is). It belongs to the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Koszalin ( Köslin ) parish in the Pomeranian-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland is responsible for Protestant residents of Sowinko .

school

Before 1945, the single-class elementary school stood in the middle of the settlement on the village street on the way to Friedensdorf (Powidz). The last German teacher was Erich Nötzel.

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1989