Westswine

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Westswine , also Swine , was a village on the island of Usedom and a historical part of today's Polish city of Swinoujscie ( Świnoujście ).

history

Under Bogislaw I of Pomerania , the Swine was secured around 1181 by two castles on the western and eastern banks. In "Szvuine" Bogislaw I confirmed the possessions of the Broda Monastery in a document in 1182 . In 1184, both castles on the Swine were burned down and razed by Danish attackers . The castle near Westswine was probably rebuilt soon, as the Pomeranian dukes carried out notifications there several times.

Around 1231, the abbot Gottschalk of the Stolpe monastery leased the ferry in "Zwina" lent to him by the Duchess Miroslawa , widow of Bogislaw II , to a ferryman named Theoderich. Bogislaw IV granted merchants free entry and exit in the port of Swine in 1297. At the latest in 1336, the year a pastor was first mentioned in Swine, the place received a church.

After the introduction of the Reformation and the subsequent secularization of the monasteries in Pomerania, Swine was assigned to the ducal office of Wolgast. In the 18th century the island of Usedom came to Prussia . Under King Friedrich II. A port was built north of Westswine until 1746, which was named Swinoujscie and developed into the most important town on the island. In 1765 the sovereign gave the town of Swinoujscie the administrative village of Westswine.

The village church in Westswine was a branch of the church in Kaseburg from 1629 . The last existing church building was probably built around 1480. In the 18th century it turned out to be too small and dilapidated, but now also served the residents of the emerging city of Swinoujscie, and was therefore extended in 1749. It was not until 1792 that a separate church, the later Christ Church , was completed in the city of Swinoujscie, and the village of Westswine also belonged to the newly formed parish. The church in Westswine was then torn down.

In 1798 there were 15 households in Westswine with a total of 145 inhabitants. The population rose to 229 in 1840 and 366 in 1858. In 1894 Westswine had 1267 inhabitants.

In 1902 Westswine was incorporated into Swinoujscie. After the Second World War , the eastern part of the island of Usedom came to Poland . The place Westswine went into the renamed Świnoujście city.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 273a.
  2. ^ Robert Burkhardt : Chronicle of the island of Usedom. Section 1: Up to the end of the thirteenth century. W. Fritzsche, Swinemünde 1909, pp. 105-106.
  3. ^ Robert Burkhardt : Chronicle of the island of Usedom. Section 2: Until the end of the Reformation (1535). W. Fritzsche, Swinemünde 1909, 131-132.
  4. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 55.
  5. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 97.
  6. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 101.
  7. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam-Berlin 1865, p. 449 ( Google books ).
  8. ↑ Hellmut Hannes : From the history of the Christ Church in Swinemünde . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 4/2011, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 24-29.
  9. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 105.
  10. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam-Berlin 1865, p. 456 ( Google books ).
  11. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Usedom-Wollin district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '  N , 14 ° 14'  E