Staniewice

Staniewice
	Staniewice
	Staniewice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Sławieński
Gmina :	Postomino
Geographic location :	54 ° 26 ' N , 16 ° 44' E Coordinates: 54 ° 26 '5 " N , 16 ° 44' 5" E
Residents :	446 (2006)
Postal code :	76-113
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	ZSL
administration
Mayor :	Bronisława Siwiuk
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Staniewice ( German Stemnitz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in the Powiat Sławieński ( district of Schlawe ).

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about nine kilometers northeast of Schlawe ( Sławno ).

The two kilometer long street village extends on the west bank of the Wipper ( Wieprza ). Neighboring places are: in the north Tyń ( Thyn ), in the east Pieszcz ( Peest ) and Nosalin ( Nitzlin ), in the south Wrześnica ( Freetz ) and Tokary ( Deutschrode ), and in the west Wilkowice ( Wilhelmine ).

Place name

The origin of the place name Stemnitz has not been clarified and it also used to be Stemtz , Stempke and Stanwitze . Whether the latter form goes back to Stanitz , the green turning banner, remains to be guessed.

history

Stemnitz east-northeast of the Baltic Sea city of Rügenwalde and northeast of the city of Schlawe on a map from 1910.

Village church (rebuilt as a half-timbered building in 1771 after a fire, Protestant until 1945)

Stemnitz was first mentioned in a document in 1285, when Duke Mestwin II of Pommerellen gave the Belbuck monastery and the Nikolaikirche in Stolp ( Słupsk ) not only some villages in the Stolper Land, but also the places Palzwitz (Palczewice) and Stemnitz in the Rügenwalder office . From 1295 to 1347 Stemnitz belonged to the Swenzonen , whose castle was on the Wipper near Alt Schlawe . Then the village passed to the castle in Rügenwalde .

In 1445 the Sanitzen are mentioned as the owners of the village. The last of his line was Asmus Sanitz , who died in 1577.

In 1648 20 farmers, seven rural and four street kossas are registered in Stemnitz. After the Thirty Years' War , the village became a fiefdom of the von Below family on Seehof near Pennekow (Pieńkowo). The farmers kept their land holdings for which they had fought several times. In this respect, the Prussian reforms only confirmed the freedom that had already been acquired.

The Seven Years' War and the 1806/1807 war brought the village a lot of suffering up to and including famine. In 1854 there were still 20 full farms listed, in 1883 there were only six. The population was 548 in 1818, which rose to 910 by 1871, but then fell to 619 by 1939. The construction of the Schlawe - Pustamin road (1896) and the construction of the Schlawe – Stolpmünde railway line (1911) contributed greatly to the positive development of the village.

Until 1945 Stemnitz belonged to the district of Peest (Pieszcz) in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . District court area was Schlawe .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the village on March 6, 1945 . Numerous residents were abducted to work in Graudenz (Grudziądz). In November 1945 Stemnitz was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet Union , together with the whole of Western Pomerania . After that, resettlers from eastern Poland began to settle . Stemnitz received the Polish place name Staniewice . In the following period, the local village residents were evicted by the local Polish administration . The locals were driven out via Schlawe and then in freight wagons to Scheune (Gumieńce) near Stettin and from there to the west.

The village is now part of the Gmina Postomino ( Pustamin ) in the powiat Sławieński ( district of Schlawe ) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( Stolp Voivodeship until 1998 ). Today around 450 people live here.

Stemnitz registry office

Until 1945 Stemnitz was the seat of a registry office that was responsible for Stemnitz and Wilhelmine (Wilkowice). There is no information about the whereabouts of the registry office documents after the war.

church

Parish

Before 1945 the population of Stemnitz was predominantly Protestant . The village was with Wilhelmine (Wilkowice) an independent congregation that - with the parishes Old Schlawe (Sławsko) and Freetz (Wrześnica) - the parish Old Schlawe formed. In 1940, 954 of the 2,904 parish members of the Alt Schlawe parish belonged to the Stemnitz parish, which was integrated into the Schlawe parish in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Paul Hollatz .

The connection as a branch parish to the parish of Sławsko was re-established for the - now Roman Catholic - parish of Staniewice in 1986. But instead of Wrześsnica ( Freetz ) now the parishes of Pieszcz ( Peest ) and Radosław ( Coccejendorf ) belong to the parish of Sławsko ( Alt Schlawe ), which in 1949 includes parishioners. He is in the deanery Sławno in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The current clergyman is Pastor Cezary Filimon . Protestant church members living here today now belong to the parish of Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Village church

The Stemnitz church was built in 1771 after the previous one - from the pre-Reformation period - burned down in the Seven Years' War. Only the tower was preserved at that time. The nave is a simple half-timbered building with a simple wooden ceiling and brick floor. The altar shows late baroque style elements. When the interior of the church was redesigned in 1806, the pulpit, which was originally above the altar, was moved to the center of the church.

After 1945 the previously evangelical church was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church. In the same year the church was re-consecrated and named Św. Michał Archanioł (St. Michael the Archangel / St. Michaelis Church).

school

Before 1945 there was a three-class elementary school with two teachers in Stemnitz. When the Red Army marched in, the building became an epidemic hospital. The Poles closed the school house and built a new one. Before 1945, the school principals were: the teachers Last (until 1805), Schröder (1805–1844), Bartel (1844–1884), Peter Pommerening (1884–1913) and Herbert Pommerening (1913–1945).

traffic

A side road leads to the village, which connects Sławno on Landesstraße 6 (former German Reichsstraße 2 , today also Europastraße 28 ) Gdansk - Stettin with Postomino ( Pustamin ) on voivodship road 203 Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) . The place was a railway station on the Schlawe – Stolpmünde Reichsbahn line until 1945 . Today there is a railway connection in Wrześnica ( Freetz ) on the state railway line 202 Danzig – Stargard (Pomerania) .

literature

Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Cößlin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 855-856, paragraph (25).
The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1088/1989
Günther Pommerening, Stemnitz in the Rügenwalder office. A village history , in: Volk und Heimat , 3rd year, 1935, 7–9