Sulimice

Sulimice (German Zillmitz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) in the Sławno ( Schlawe ) district.

Geographical location

Sulimice is located nine kilometers east of Darłowo and six kilometers from the Baltic Sea coast on the southern slope of a ridge, the north of the village with the Varzowicka Góra ( Pigow mountain ) 72 meters above sea level. reached. The district descends to the south towards Wieprza ( Wipper ). The southern outskirts of Sulimice are crossed by the voivodship road 203 ( Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Darłowo - Ustka ( Stolpmünde )), which crosses the side road from Kowalewice ( Alt Kugelwitz ) to Barzowice ( Barzwitz ).

Neighboring towns are: in the west Zakrzewo ( Sackshöhe ), in the north Barzowice ( Barzwitz ), in the east Dzierżęcin ( Dörsenthin ) and Karsino ( Karzin ) and in the south Kowalewice ( Alt Kugelwitz ) and Zielnowo ( Sellen ).

Place name

Sulimice (alias Zillmitz) is probably of Slavic origin, probably it is originally a Wendish foundation. An earlier name is Chzebbenitze .

history

Zillmitz, with a knight's seat in Drosedow (now in Polish: Drozdowo), has been a fiefdom of the von Grape family since ancient times . In 1539 the Pomeranian ducal house exchanged its Karwitz (Karwice) hunting estate at Jochen Grape for Drosedow. Since then, Zillmit and Drosedow have belonged to the Rügenwalder office .

Around 1780 Zillmitz had: 12 farmers, 1 country estate, 2 street cottages (including a schoolmaster), 2 Büdner and 1 shepherd's house with a total of 18 fireplaces. In 1818 234 inhabitants lived here. Their number rose to 381 by 1905 and was 327 in 1939.

Before 1945, the municipality of Zillmitz with the residential areas Drosedow and Brinkenhof and the municipalities of Barzwitz (Barzowice), Dörsenthin (Dzierżęcin), Karzin (Karsino), Palzwitz (Palczewice) and Vitte (Wicie) were part of the administrative district of Palzwitz in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The registry office was also based in Palzwitz, while the responsible district court was in Rügenwalde.

Russian troops occupied the place on March 7, 1945. As a result of the war , Zillmit came to Poland under the name Sulimice and is now part of the Gmina Darłowo in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . Today 130 people live here.

church

Before 1945 the population of Zillmitz was predominantly of Protestant denomination. The village belonged with Barzwitz (today Polish: Barzowice), Dörsenthin (Dzierżęcin), Drosedow (Drozdowo), Karzin (Karsino) and Vitte (Wicie) to the parish Barzwitz in the parish of Rügenwalde of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Franz Birken .

Since 1945 the population of Sulimice has been almost exclusively Catholic . The place belongs to the current parish Barzowice in the deanery Darłowo in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical church members are assigned to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

In the Zillmitzer elementary school, lessons prior to 1945 comprised eight school years. The last German school principal was a teacher in Bielang until 1941, after which various representatives from the neighborhood attended the lessons.

literature

• The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989

Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '  N , 16 ° 31'  E