Tokary (Sławno)

Tokary (German name Deutschrode ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the Sławno district .

Geographical location

Tokary is located five kilometers north of the district town of Sławno and can be reached via a side road that leads from Sławno to Postomino ( Pustamin ) and from which a spur road branches off directly to Tokary. The next train station was Coccejendorf (station name in Polish: Radosław Sławieńskie) on the former and now disused railway line Schlawe – Stolpmünde .

Tokary's neighbors are: in the west Radosław ( Coccejendorf ), in the north Staniewice ( Stemnitz ), in the east Wrześnica ( Freetz ) and in the south Sławsko ( Alt Schlawe ).

Place name

The German place name Deutschrode marks that it is a settlement of Germans expelled from West Prussia by the Versailles Treaty on a cleared area of ​​the former state forest Alt Krakow (Stary Kraków).

history

The establishment of the village was a measure under the Reich Settlement Act of August 11, 1919: about ten families expelled from West Prussia were given the opportunity to create a new farming existence on the cleared areas of a state forest. At first, this could only be done under primitive conditions and with heavy physical work. But gradually homesteads emerged and the community grew: in 1939 106 people lived here.

The second expulsion - for the residents of Deutschroder - began after 1945 and was carried out by 1947. Deutschrode came under Polish administration and is now part of the Gmina Sławno in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ) as Tokary .

Before 1945 Deutschrode belonged to the district of Alt Krakow, also to the registry office there , but to the Schlawe district court . The place was in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

church

Before 1945 the inhabitants of Deutschrode were predominantly of the Protestant denomination. The village was incorporated into the parish Alt Schlawe (Sławsko), which had belonged to the church district Schlawe since 1928 , previously to the church district Rügenwalde , in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union .

Mostly Roman Catholic residents have lived in Tokary since 1945 . They belong to the - now Catholic - parish of Sławsko, which was re-established in 1986 in the Sławno deanery in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical church members are now assigned to the parish offices in Koszalin ( Köslin ) and Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

In terms of schooling, Deutschrode was also oriented towards Alt Schlawe before 1945.

literature

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

Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 43'  E