Sycewice

Sycewice
Help on coat of arms	Sycewice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Pomerania
Powiat :	Slupsk
Gmina :	Kobylnica
Geographic location :	54 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '17 "  N , 16 ° 51' 39"  E
Residents :	1089 (2006)
Postal code :	76-251
License plate :	GSL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 6 = E 28 Szczecin - Gdansk
Rail route :	PKP - route 202: Stargard – Gdansk , train station: Sycewice
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sycewice (German Zitzewitz ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural municipality Kobylnica ( Kublitz ) in the Słupsk ( Stolp ) district. It was the ancestral home of the noble family von Zitzewitz .

Geographical location and transport links

Sycewice is located in Western Pomerania , on Landesstrasse 6 (former German Reichsstrasse 2 , today also European Route 28 ) Gdansk - Stettin between the cities of Słupsk ( Stolp , 12 kilometers) and Sławno ( Schlawe , 13 kilometers). The place is a train station on the state railway line no. 202 Danzig Stargard (Pomerania) .

Neighboring municipalities are: Pałówko ( Neu Paalow ) in the northwest, Gać ( Gatz ) in the north, Redęcin ( Reddentin ) and Zębowo ( Symbow ) in the east, Runowo Sławieńskie ( Klein Runow ) in the south and Noskowo ( Notzkow ) in the southwest.

history

Zitzewitz southwest of the town of Stolp (previously written as Stolpe ) and west of the river Stolpe , which flows into the Baltic Sea , on a map from 1794.

The place name occurs in different forms: Citzewitze (1357), Siczouicze (1374), Setzeuicze (1399), Zitzeuitz (1485), Zitzewitz (1568–1945), Cietrzewiec (1945–1947) and since 1947 Sycewice .

According to the historical form of the village, Sycewice is a narrow street . A castle rampart on the formerly so-called Schlossberg, southwest of the village, dates back to prehistoric times. Zitzewitz was old fief of those von Zitzewitz . When he died in 1410, Peter von Zitzewitz was the owner of Zitzewitz and Kussow (now in Polish: Kończewo). In 1523 Peter Zitzeuitze is called tho Zeitzeuitze . Georg von Zitzewitz , born in 1585, was the founder of the second Zitzewitz-Zezenower branch. After his death, Zitzewitz was divided into goods A and B, but remained in the possession of the Zitzewitz family until 1945.

In 1784 there were two farms , nine farmers (including the blacksmith and the innkeeper), a school house and three cottages with a total of 25 households. At that time, the owner of the manor village was Jakob Ernst von Zitzewitz.

One of the greats of the von Zitzewitz family was Wilhelm von Zitzewitz (1838–1925), who in 1909 received the dignity of count. From 1862 he managed Zitzewitz and after the death of his father in 1864 moved to his mother in Zezenow (Cecenowo). He has significantly increased the family's property, acquired and a. Gatz (Gać) and Nitzlin (Nosalin). After his death, Zitzewitz, Gatz and Nitzlin passed on to his son Heinrich von Zitzewitz , who built a castle in the village and laid out a park.

In 1925 there were 60 residential buildings in the community of Zitzewitz. The community area was 1,212 hectares. In 1938 the estate was 934 hectares and was considered a professionally well-managed company. Since Heinrich von Zitzewitz's death in 1937, his son Wilhelm Zitzewitz and Gatz had taken over. During the Second World War he returned to Zitzewitz as a major. In addition to the estate, there were 30 farms in the municipality. About half of the residents of Zitzewitz - 515 were registered here in 1939 - belonged to the rural properties north of Reichsstraße 2.

Until 1945 the community Zitzewitz belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative district of Köslin of the province of Pomerania ; it was assigned to the district of Gatz (Gać). Before 1945, the municipality of Zitzewitz was divided into seven districts:

• Zitzewitz train station (now in Polish Sycewice, stacja kolejowa )
• Fichtkaten ( Ciemnik )
• Zitzewitz dairy (since 1908)
• Mill
• Sophienkaten
• Vorwerk Grenzhof ( Miedzno )
• Zitzewitz

The main place of residence was Zitzewitz.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the village was evacuated on March 7, 1945 before the approaching Red Army ; some residents fled to Peest (Pieszcz). After the occupation of the village, Soviet soldiers carried out massacres. Mayor Wilhelm Witt and his family - 4 adults and 4 children, all in a row - were hung up. Others were shot. Count Wilhelm von Zitzewitz was the last to leave the estate and met again with his family in Zezenow (Cecenowo). On March 19, 1945 he was abducted by the Russians, brought to Stolp and from there to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow . He has been missing since then. After the end of the war, Zitzewitz was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania . The dairy was demolished and the castle badly damaged. Most of the villagers were driven west by the Poles over the Oder . For children of German families from Zitzewitz and the surrounding area who had not been expelled, there were lessons in German again after 1952. Zitzewitz was renamed Sycewice .

Later 329 in the FRG and 94 in the GDR 94 villagers displaced from Zitzewitz were identified.

The village now belongs to the Gmina Kobylnica in the powiat Słupski of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). In 2006 lived here 1089 inhabitants.

church

Before 1945 the residents of Zitzewitz were all Protestant . The village belonged to the parish Symbow (Zębowo), in which the neighboring towns of Birkow (Bierkowo), Gatz (Gać), Reblin (Reblino) and Reddentin (Redęcin) were parish. It was in the church district of Stolp-Stadt in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The patronage of the church for Zitzewitz was the responsibility of the manor family . The last German clergyman was Pastor Oskar Klopsch . Today the evangelical church members are from the rectory of the Church Św. Krzyża (Holy Cross Church) in Słupsk in the Pomerania-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Since 1945, the majority of Sycewice's residents have been Roman Catholic . On June 1, 1951, the Parafia św. Jana Bosko (parish of St. John Bosco ) in Sycewice, which belongs to the deanery Słupsk Zachód (Stolp-West) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The parish, to which the subsidiary churches Pałowo ( Alt Paalow ) and Zębowo ( Symbow ) also belong, has 2300 parishioners.

The church in Sycewice ( Zitzwitz ) from 1992

In 1992 the parish church of Św. Jana Bosko to be completed and consecrated.

The pastors in Sycewice were:

1. Leon Brochulski, 1974-1978
2. Stanisław Smuniewski, 1978–1986
3. Wiesław Dąbrowski, 1986–1991
4. Roman Dąbrowski, 1991–1994
5. Jan Terlikowski, 1994-1998
6. Wojciech Ebel, 1998-2005
7. Zbigniew Dudojć, since 2005

school

There was already a school in Zitzewitz in 1798. In 1818/19 a new school building was built. In the year of construction the school had 16 children, but their number rose to 67 by 1867. In 1860/61 a new building was erected in the middle of the village. In 1932 the school was single-stage and had three classes, two teachers and 79 school children.

School principals were most recently:

• Eduard Selke, 1904–1928
• Richard Neubüser, 1928–1930
• Otto Bansemer, 1930–1945

For children of German families who stayed behind in Sycewice after 1945 - including many refugees from other places - lessons in the German language were given again after 1952.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

• Wilhelm von Zitzewitz (1838–1925), German landowner and politician, managed Zitzewitz from 1862

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, DNB 900340665 , pp. 1064-1068. ( Description of the location Zitzewitz. ) (PDF; 1.2 MB).

Web links

Commons : Sycewice  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The community of Zitzewitz in the former Stolp district in Pomerania (Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part 2, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, pp. 1023-1024, No. 171 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 1064-1986 ( online; PDF) .