Wicie (Darłowo)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | West Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Sławno | ||
| Gmina : | Darłowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 30 ′ N , 16 ° 28 ′ E | ||
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| Postal code : | 76-150 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 94 | ||
| License plate : | ZSL | ||
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
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Wicie (German Vitte ) is a village on Jezioro Kopań ( Vitter See ) in the northeast of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) in the Powiat Sławieński ( Schlawe district ).
Geographical location
Wicie is located in a meadow and dune landscape between the north shore of the inland lake Jezioro Kopań ( Vitter See ) and the Baltic Sea , ten kilometers northeast of Darłowo and twenty kilometers northwest of the town of Sławno .
Neighboring towns of Wicie are: in the southwest Kopań ( Kopahn ) on the south bank of the lake, in the east Rusinowo ( Rützenhagen ), in the south Barzowice ( Barzwitz ) and Palczewice ( Palzwitz ) on the south bank of the lake .
Place name
The German place name "'Vitte'" is said to come from Witte / Swedish "vittja" = "landing", "stacking place". In the past people also spoke of the Rügenwalder Vitte , Klönnevitte or Klennevitte (= "little Vitte"). The name occurs again in Pomerania in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen , as today's district of the municipality of Hiddensee .
history
Vitte is said to have been founded from Sweden around 1400 . Even before 1407 the Carthusian monks were given the right to build a monastery "in Klonnevytze ", but they refrain from doing this.
In the time of the Hanseatic League , Vitte was important as a fishing port on the outflow of the Strandsee into the Baltic Sea. The fishermen carried on lively trade with Danzig , Lübeck , Rostock , Wismar and Königsberg (Prussia) . They delivered fish products, sopeck, Schmeer and peas and brought back salt, clothes and iron. Therefore, between 1508 and 1636 there were several disputes with the Rügenwalder merchants, which the dukes had to settle.
Due to changes in the beach, the favorable location and thus the importance of Vitte was lost. There were only twelve fishing families left. With the further decline in fishing, there was a gradual transition to agriculture, which turned the place into a prosperous farming village.
In 1818 there were 85 inhabitants in Vitte. Their number rose to 149 by 1885 and was 93 in 1939.
Numerous shipwrecks such as the stranding of the "Maria" (1895), "Fortuna" (1896), "Wolgast" (1913) and "Columbus" (1932) have been handed down due to the strong currents on the Vitter coast.
Until 1945 Vitte was in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The community belonged to the administrative and civil registry district Palzwitz (today Polish: Palczewice) and the district court area Rügenwalde (Darłowo).
Towards the end of the Second World War , Soviet troops occupied the place on March 8, 1945 . The residents were obliged to build bunkers and trenches. After its completion, a twenty-kilometer-wide coastal strip was cleared. The Vitter were housed in Alt Schlawe (Sławsko) and Kuhtz (Kusice) and were allowed to return home at the end of June 1945. After the end of the war, Vitte was placed under Polish administration. Poles took over the farms in early 1946, and all Germans were expelled on December 14, 1946 . Vitte was renamed Wicie .
The village is now part of the Gmina Darłowo in the powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . About 40 people live here today.
church
Before 1945 all residents in Vitte were Protestant . The village belonged to the parish Barzwitz (Barzowice) in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Almost without exception, the population of Wicie has been Roman Catholic since 1945 . Kirchdorf is - still - Barzowice, today assigned to the deanery Darłowo and located in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant residents now belong to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
school
Before 1945 there was a one-class elementary school in Vitte for 15 children in a former forester's house. Before, only winter lessons took place in a rented room in a fisherman's house. In 1936 the school was closed and the last three children were retrained to Rützenhagen (Rusinowo).
traffic
A narrow, two-kilometer secondary road leads from the connecting road from Drozdowo ( Drosedow ) to Voivodeship Road (DW) 203 via Korlino ( Körlin ) to Zaleskie ( Saleske ), also located on DW 203, into the small lake village. The nearest train station is Darłowo .
