Sowno (Stargard)

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Sowno (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Stargard
Gmina : Stargard
Geographic location : 53 ° 26 '  N , 14 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '35 "  N , 14 ° 54' 6"  E
Residents : 533 (December 31, 2012)
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZST
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów



Sowno ( German Hinzendorf ) is a village in the municipality of Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Sowno is Hinterpommern , about 14 kilometers north-west of the center of Stargard and 22 kilometers east of Szczecin ( Szczecin ). The village is located on the left side of the Ina ( Ihna ) river .

history

The village, which is said to have been called Butterdorf , was given to his court jester Georg Hinze, commonly known as Klaus Hinze , by the Pomeranian Duke Johann Friedrich (1542–1600). Since then it has been called Hinzendorf . It was thanks to Hinze that the villagers were released from the obligation to take part in the wolf hunt. Around the year 1780, there were three in Hinzdorf Kossäten , among whom was the village mayor was twelve Büdner and a total of 16 households.

Around 1930, the district of Hinzendorf had an area of ​​1.7 km², and there were a total of 65 residential buildings in five residential areas in the municipality:

  • Ficksradung
  • Hankenhof
  • Hinzendorf
  • Him customs
  • Neuenkamp

Until 1945 Hinzendorf belonged to the Naugard district in the Pomeranian province . Towards the end of the Second World War , Hinzendorf was occupied by the Soviet Army in early March 1945 . After the end of the war, the village became part of Poland as Sowno .

Development of the population

year number Remarks
1817 177
1925 352 in 98 households, including 349 Protestants and three Catholics
1933 715
1939 730
2012 533

Attractions

Georg Hinze's tombstone. The church or chapel of Hinzendorf, which stood in the cemetery, was completely destroyed around the middle of the 17th century and had not been restored in 1780 either. The tombstone of Georg Hinzes had previously stood next to his grave in the cemetery on an oak tree. Later the tombstone was built into a church wall. The tombstone shows Hinze with a cap with bells, a shepherd's bag on the waist strap and with a scepter-like shepherd's club in his right hand. Next to his feet is an overturned beer mug with the lid open. The first letters of his name are said to be engraved on his cheeks: GH On the only partially legible Latin inscription on the tombstone, the date of death is March 17, 1599.

Parish

The majority of the population in Hinzendorf belonged to the Protestant denomination until 1945. The Protestants from Hinzendorf belonged to the Protestant parish Friedrichswalde, the Catholics to the Catholic parish Louisenthal.

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 1, pp. 226-227, No. 7 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Sowno (Stargard)  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Hinzendorf near Meyers Gazetteer (with historical map)

Footnotes

  1. a b Website of Gmina Stargard, Statystyka Mieszkańców , accessed on March 26, 2013
  2. ^ A b Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 1, Stettin 1784, pp. 226-227, No. 7.
  3. a b Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The community of Hinzendorf in the former Naugard district in Pomerania (2011)
  4. Place directory of the administrative district of Stettin according to the new district division . Szczecin 1817
  5. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Province of Pomerania, district of Naugard. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).