Więcław (Brzeżno)

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Więcław (German name: Venzlaffshagen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to Gmina Brzeżno ( Briesen ) in Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) district.

Geographical location

The small farming village Więcław is located ten kilometers south of Świdwin on the voivodship road No. 162 Kołobrzeg ( Kolberg ) –Świdwin– Drawsko Pomorskie ( Dramburg ). In the south the place borders on the district border of Łobez ( Labes ) and Drawsko Pomorskie .

South of Więcław is the formerly so-called “Venzlaffshagener See”, traversed by the Stara Rega ( Fuchsfließ ), a coveted canoe route on which you reach the confluence with the Rega after about eight kilometers . This river partially marks the boundary of Więcław in the southeast and northwest.

Local history

The Neumark land register mentions Venzlaffshagen in 1337 as owned by Diderich von der Elbe. In 1479 the village was cremated in the war between Brandenburg and Pomerania . Seven years later, Margrave Johann gives Christoph von Polentz “ Fenzelhagen ” along with the mill, lake, eel trap and wood. In 1503 Heinz Langebecker received the Schulzenamt with court and hooves from Elisabeth Countess von Eberstein. In 1518 the place passed into electoral ownership, in 1540 it became the property of the Order of St. John .

In 1884 four farmers, four half-farmers and 15 owners are named, and in 1939 there are 229 inhabitants in 54 households in Venzlaffshagen. At this time the area of ​​the municipality was 818.2 hectares and was cultivated by 15 medium-sized farms and 29 small farmers.

In the diverse landscape around Venzlaffshagen, sand, gravel, clay and peat were extracted, and the lake allowed a profitable fishing industry. The craft was represented by a blacksmith's shop, a carpentry shop and a shoemaker's shop. There was also a grocery store. Wilhelm Dallmann was mayor of the municipality until his death in 1941, then Paul Issberner until 1945.

Venzlaffshagen belonged to 1945 with the communities Briesen (today Polish: Brzeżno), Kussenow (Koszanowo) and Völzkow (Wilczkowo) to the district and registry office district Briesen in the district court area Schivelbein . The last German head of office was Richard Schimmelpfennig.

Until 1932, Venzlafsshagen was in the Schivelbein district, which then became part of the district reform in the Belgard (Persante) district.

On the night before the village was occupied by Russian troops on March 3, 1945, the people of Venzlaffshagen managed to escape in a closed trek to Cammin . There the trek came under Russian tank fire, was overrun and had to return. This was followed by the expulsion of the population, and Venzlaffshagen came into Polish hands as Więcław and is now part of the Brzeżno municipality in the - re-established - Schivelbein district .

church

Venzlaffshagen parish

Was Venzlaffshagen vicarage of the daughter churches Briesen (Polish today: Brzeżno) and Voelzkow - Kussenow (Wilczkowo-Koszanowo) formed parish . It belonged to the church district Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 the parish had a total of 962 parishioners, 225 of whom lived in the Venzlaffshagen area.

Today Więcław belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish church

The Venzlaffshagener church was built in 1899 in neo-Gothic style from brickwork and was the replacement for a building from 1835. The tower has a high pitched roof, which was crowned by a slender roof turret. The larger of the two bells, cast in 1769, had to be delivered in the Second World War , but was saved from being melted down . In 1969 it was put into service as a cemetery bell at the cemetery in Billinghausen , a district of Lage (Lippe) .

Pastor from the Reformation to 1945

  1. Urban Praetorius, 1558-1567
  2. Joachim Guzenius
  3. Esaias Rassowius, 1614–1667
  4. Michal Copius, 1669-1704
  5. Johann Caspar Wesenberg, 1704–1723
  6. Karl Gabriel Birner, 1724-1726
  7. Johannes Valentinus Kohlmey, 1717–1753
  8. Daniel Lebrecht Mehring, 1754–1762
  9. Gotthold (Georg) Friedrich Polnow, 1762–1800
  10. Peter Anton Burchardi, 1800–1844
  11. Ernst Alexander Leopold Sonnenburg, 1845–1855
  12. Johann Karl Theodor Schilling, 1855–1887
  13. Johannes Samuel Konrad Karl Heling, 1887–1907
  14. Konrad Schewe, 1908–1914
  15. Otto Pahlow, 1915-1927
  16. Ernst Gauger, 1927–1945

school

Venzlaffshagen had a two-storey schoolhouse, where teacher Paul Vier watched taught until 1945.

literature

  • Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee (ed.): The Belgard district. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.
  • Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2: The administrative district of Köslin , Stettin 1912.

Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′  N , 15 ° 47 ′  E