Stare Dębno

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Stare Dębno (German name Damen ) is a village with 220 inhabitants (as of 2006) in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship , which belongs to the municipality of Tychowo ( Groß Tychow ) in the Białogard ( Belgard ) district.

Geographical location

Stare Dębno is nine kilometers southwest of Tychowo and 22 kilometers southeast of the district town of Białogard on the Voivodeship Road No. 167 Koszalin ( Köslin ) -Tychowo - Ogartowo ( Jagertow ) - Połczyn-Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ). The nearest train station is Tychowo on the route Kołobrzeg ( Kolberg ) - Białogard - Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) - Piła ( Schneidemühl ) - Poznań ( Poznan ). The community is located in the corner of the mouth between Dębnica ( Damitz ) and Parsęta ( Persante ), and the main part of the village with a church and school on a hill surrounded by meadows can be seen from afar.

Surname

The place name is likely to be derived from the Wendish dab (read: domb ), which means oak and thus could identify the place as an old oak village.

Local history

On the northeastern edge of the village, on an otherwise flat meadow, rises an artificially piled 20 meter high mountain, the Wallenberg , whose wide and deep ditch indicates an earlier fortress purpose of the complex.

As early as the Middle Ages, Damen was owned by von Kleist . In 1858 Rudolf von Kleist owned the Rauden (now Polish: Rudno) and Sand estates , and two years later he also inherited Damen.

In 1939 Friedrich Wolf von Kleist-Retzow was the owner of the manor. 40 horses, 164 cattle, 382 sheep and 473 pigs were kept on the 780 hectare farm. At the time, 522 people lived in 104 households on the 1,515 hectare parish of Damen. 353 people worked in agriculture and forestry, 24 in industry and craft and two in trade and transport.

Until 1945, Damen belonged to the Belgard (Persante) district . Most recently Artur Ziburski (1929–1940) and Konrad Schellenberg (1940–1945) were mayors of the municipality of Damen, which also included the Neudamen estate (Nowe Dębno). It was incorporated into the district of Zadtkow (Sadkowo), which Friedrich Wilhelm Fink was the last head of the department. The registry office - last occupied by Walter Thurow and Reinhard Treptow - was in Muttrin (Motarzyn). The district court district was Bad Polzin (Połczyn-Zdrój), and the responsible Oberlandjäger had his official seat “on site” in Damen.

As a result of the war , Damen became Polish. The local population was displaced . Under the name Stare Dębno, the village is now a district of the Gmina Tychowo in the powiat Białogardzki .

church

Parish

Damen was an independent parish and a daughter parish in the parish of Muttrin (Motarzyn) until 1945 . She lay in the church district Belgard of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 the parish of Damen had 600 parishioners. The church patronage for ladies had the landowner von Kleist-Retzow (ladies), Knobelsdorf and Wolden ( Rudy ) and Nimmermann ( Neudamen held). The last German clergyman was Pastor Herbert Venske .

Today Stare Dębno belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Village church

In the pre-Reformation period, the Damen Church belonged to the Vicariate of Groß Krössin (Polish: Krosino). For a long time this was clearly visible from the altar, which in a lofty three-story wooden cabinet depicted the adoration of the baby Jesus in the manger, and a stone in the churchyard wall with a special hollow for the holy water.

The church burned down on October 21, 1643. It is not known exactly when the new half-timbered church was built. The oldest church book began in 1713.

The church was completely renovated in 1933. Two well-preserved wing paintings with depictions of the mass of St. Gregory (around 1500) were discovered on the Gothic altar.

school

Before 1945, children from Damen, Neuhof (Trzebiec) and Sand were taught in the two-class elementary school . In 1928 there were 32 boys and 34 girls. The teachers were Karl Buß, Ewald Boneß and Ernst Lange. At that time, Damen already had its own kindergarten.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Belgard County. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. ed. v. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989

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Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '  N , 16 ° 10'  E