Węgorzyno

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Węgorzyno
Węgorzyno coat of arms
Węgorzyno (Poland)
Węgorzyno
Węgorzyno
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Łobez
Gmina : Węgorzyno
Area : 6.85  km²
Geographic location : 53 ° 32 '  N , 15 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '13 "  N , 15 ° 33' 27"  E
Height : 107 m npm
Residents : 2865 (2017)
Postal code : 73-155
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZLO
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 20 Stargard ↔ Gdynia
Ext. 151 Świdwin ↔ Gorzów Wielkopolski
Rail route : Chojnice – Runowo Pomorskie railway line
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure: 17 school authorities
Surface: 256.19 km²
Residents: 6970
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 27 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 3218053
Administration (as of 2018)
Mayoress : Monika Kuźmińska
Address: Rynek 1
72-155 Węgorzyno
Website : www.wegorzyno.pl



Węgorzyno ( German Wangerin, Regenwalde district ) is a small town and seat of a town and country municipality of the same name in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship in the Powiat Łobeski ( Labes district ).

Geographical location

The city is located in Western Pomerania , in the southwest of the Draheimer Seenplatte ( Pojezierze Drawskie ) on the west bank of the Wangeriner See ( Jezioro Węgorzyno ). State road 10 leads through the village , via which Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) can be reached after 43 kilometers and Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ) after 20 kilometers. The Höllenberg rises at a height of 133 meters at Lake Wangeriner See.

history

Wangerin south of the city of Regenwalde on a map from 1905
Wangerin around 1890
City Church (Protestant until 1945)
Węgorzyno - the town hall and the church (2014)

The town's past was shaped for a long time by the Borcke family . The Borckes had their headquarters in Wangerin, from which they controlled large parts of the surrounding area until 1815.

There was already a Wendish rampart on the west bank of the Wangeriner See when Henning Nicolaus von Borcke built the first castle of his family branch here in 1348. Immigrants from the west were settled in the area of ​​the castle, and as early as 1460 the place had Luebian city rights .

In 1569 there was a dispute between the city and the Borcke family over city privileges. Only a ruling by the Imperial Court of Justice in 1580 guaranteed the city extensive rights. A city fire destroyed Wangerin considerably in 1593, in which all documents about the city were lost. After the end of the Thirty Years' War , the city, which had been ruled by the Pomeranian dukes until then , became part of Brandenburg because the Pomeranian ruling house had died out in 1637. It was administratively incorporated into the Borckschen Kreis, named after the landowners. On February 9, 1697, Wangerin fell victim to another major fire in which the church and the town hall burned down. It was not until 1715 that the church was rebuilt. In 1716 a squadron of the Prussian dragoons was stationed in the city. In 1786 the fusiliers from Wangerin founded the oldest war comradeship in Germany: the "Military Rifle Brotherhood", from which the Kyffhäuserbund , which still exists today, later developed.

After the end of the Napoleonic wars , Wangerin was incorporated into the newly created Regenwalde district of the province of Pomerania in 1818 . In the same year, the citizens built a new town hall, which was built in half-timbered style.

When the first railway lines were built in Pomerania, Wangerin was initially out of the way, because the Stargard – Köslin line, completed in 1859, passed the city five kilometers to the west. Only with the construction of the Ruhnow – Neustettin railway line did Wangerin get its own station. With the railway connection, Wangerin, previously mainly an arable town, developed into a regional agricultural trading center. The number of inhabitants increased from 2587 in 1875 to 2747 in 1910. Remarkably, this trade was almost exclusively in Jewish hands, although the proportion of the Jewish population was only four percent. The first city expansion to the north also took place at this time. There was a second wave of expansion in the 1920s, when new suburban settlements were built on the arteries. In 1939 Wangerin had 3449 inhabitants.

On March 2, 1945, Soviet tanks began bombarding Wangerin. The population fled the city, the center of which had gone up in flames from the shelling. After the occupation by the Soviet troops , the inner city was largely destroyed. Many of the refugees returned. On May 20, 1945 the city was placed under Polish administration. The Poles renamed the German city of Wangerin Węgorzyno . Unless the residents of Wangerin had fled beforehand, they were expelled and replaced by immigrating Poles .

Population up to 1939

  • 1740: 0645
  • 1782: 0634, including 24 Jews
  • 1794: 0692, including 30 Jews
  • 1812: 0765, including one Catholic and 61 Jews
  • 1816: 0761, including one Catholic and 53 Jews
  • 1831: 1,121, including two Catholics and 72 Jews
  • 1843: 1,638, including three Catholics and 72 Jews
  • 1852: 2,032, including four Catholics and 105 Jews
  • 1861: 2,394, including one Catholic and 126 Jews
  • 1875: 2.587
  • 1880: 2.709
  • 1925: 2,936, including seven Catholics and 15 Jews
  • 1933: 3.272
  • 1939: 3,449

Parish partnership

  • Municipality of Uckerland (Germany, State of Brandenburg)

Personalities: sons and daughters of the city

  • Joachim Christian Timm (1734–1805), German pharmacist and botanist, mayor of Malchin
  • Hermann Hinz (1916–2000), German prehistoric scientist and university professor
  • Inge Götze (* 1939), German artist and professor of painting and textile art at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Applied Sciences, Halle
  • Sławomir Wojciechowski (* 1962), Polish military

Gmina Węgorzyno

The location of Gmina Węgorzyno ( Wangerin ) in the Łobez ( Labes ) district

General

The urban and rural community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Węgorzyno covers an area of ​​256 km² and thus occupies 24% of the area of ​​the Powiat Łobeski ( Labes district ). It has more than 7,300 inhabitants. Until 1998 the community was part of the Szczecin Voivodeship , and from 1999 to 2002 it was part of the Stargardzki powiat ( Stargard district in Pomerania ). The uniform postcode 73-155 applies to the entire municipality.

The southern part of the Gmina Węgorzyno is located in the Inski Park Krajebrazowy Landscape Park , the Brzeżnicka Węgorza flows through the eastern part, which flows into the Rega ( Rega ) just beyond the municipality boundary near Łobez ( Labes ) , as does the Reska Węgorza , which flows in the northern municipality area.

Neighboring municipalities to Węgorzyno are:

Community structure

The urban and rural community of Węgorzyno is divided into 17 districts ("Schulzenämter"), to which 33 localities belong:

  • Districts :

Next to the city of Węgorzyno

  • Brzeźniak ( Rosenfelde )
  • Chwarstno ( Horst )
  • Cieszyno ( Teschendorf )
  • Kraśnik Łobeski ( Scratchy )
  • Lesięcin ( Lessenthin )
  • Mielno ( Mellen )
  • Mieszewo ( Meesow )
  • Przytoń ( Klaushagen )
  • Runowo ( Ruhnow )
  • Other locations :
  • Brzeźnica ( Bernsdorf ), Dłusko ( Blankenhagen ), Gardno ( Gerdshagen ), Ginawa ( Gienow ), Kąkolewice ( Kankelfitz ), Podlipce ( Piepstock ), Połchowo ( Polchow ), Rogówko ( Roggow B ), Sulice ( Neu Gerdshagen ).

In the municipality are also the desert areas Elisenhof , Elmershagen , Kreutz , Neu Buchholz and Schwerinshof .

traffic

Streets

Gmina Węgorzyno is connected to the Polish road network by a national road (Droga krajowa, DK) and a voivodship road (Droga wojewódzka, DW):

The tourist route Droga Tysiaca Jezior (Północna) (Route of a Thousand Lakes (North)) runs through the southeastern municipality - coming from Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ) on the DK 20 via Węgorzyno on the DW 151 towards Recz ( Reetz ).

rails

The Gmina Węgorzyno today with the train stations Ruhnowo Pomorskie ( Ruhnow, train station ), Cieszyno Pomorskie ( Teschendorf ) and Lesięcin ( Lessenthin ) to the major Polish railway line no. 202 of Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) on Koszalin ( Koszalin ) and Slupsk ( Stolp ) connected to Gdansk . The line was opened in 1859.

Since 1869, the railway line No. 210 to Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) and on to Chojnice ( Konitz ) has branched off in Ruhnowo Pomorskie , where the Węgorzyno railway station and the Wiewiecko ( Henkenhagen ) railway station are located.

From 1896 to the 1990s, there was additional rail traffic on the route of the earlier Regenwald Kleinbahn , which - via the stations Mieszewo ( Meesow ), Sielsko ( Silligsdorf ) and Zwierzynek ( Schwerin ) - the cities of Dobra ( Daber ) and Łobez ( Labes ) connected.

literature

  • Gustav Kratz : The cities of the province of Pomerania. Outline of their history, mostly based on documents. Bath, Berlin 1865, pp. 539-540 ( full text ).
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 1: Description of the court district of the Royal. State colleges in Stettin belonging to the Eastern Pomeranian districts . Stettin 1784, pp. 328-331.
  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania - description of the conditions of this country in the second half of the 19th century . Part II: Land book of the Duchy of Stettin, of Kamin and Western Pomerania; or the administrative district of the Königl. Government to Szczecin . Volume 7: The rainforest district, and news of the spread of the Roman Catholic. Church in Pomerania. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, pp. 139–329.
  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .

Web links

Commons : Węgorzyno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polska w liczbach .
  2. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Urząd Miejski [1] , accessed December 7, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Kratz (1865), p. 540.
  5. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. regenwalde.html # ew39rgnwwangst. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ http://stadt.wangerin.kreis-regenwalde.de/