Starnice

Starnitz manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Starnice (German Starnitz ) is a village in the powiat Słupski of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Starnice is located in Western Pomerania , about five kilometers east of Dębnica Kaszubska ( Rathsdamnitz ), 16 kilometers southeast of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and 91 kilometers west of the regional metropolis of Danzig ( Gdańsk ).

history

Starnitz southeast of Stolp (left half of the picture) and east of Rathsdamnitz on a map from 1910

Starnitz was a manor. It had been in the possession of the Bandemer and Below families as a fief , before it came to Captain Otto Bogislaw von Schwerin and then to the Gottberg family . Around 1784 there was a farm in Starnitz, eight full farmers , four half farmers , a blacksmith, a schoolmaster and on the field of the village a water mill, a cottage and a total of 22 households. In 1925 there were 59 houses in Starnitz. In 1939 the village had 531 inhabitants, who were spread over 128 households.

Before the end of World War II was Starnitz office of the administrative district Starnitz in county Stolp , administrative region of Pomerania , the province of Pomerania . The community area covered 2,325 hectares.

Towards the end of World War II, the region was occupied by the Red Army on March 8, 1945 . Soon after, Starnitz was placed under Polish administration. The first Poles arrived in May and confiscated houses and farms in Starnitz as part of Polish expropriation measures. Most of the residents were displaced westward by 1947 ; one transport took place in July / August 1946, another in July 1947. For children from some families who had stayed in Starnitz, there was a German school for grades 1 to 5 for several years from 1951/52. The 6th grade was taught in Borzęcino ( Bornzin ). Later, 248 villagers displaced from Starnitz in the Federal Republic of Germany and 121 in the GDR were identified.

Starnitz was renamed Starnice . Today the village has about 270 inhabitants.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Franz Wilhelm von Gottberg (1824–1869), dike captain of the Oderbruch

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 927–930 (Description of the location Starnitz ; PDF, 779 kB)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 1007-1008, No. 139

Web links

• Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The Starnitz community in the former Stolp district (2011).
• Material on the Starnitz Manor (PDF; 209 kB) in the Alexander Duncker Collection

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 929–930 (Description of the location Starnitz ; PDF, 779 kB)

Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 14'  E