Wierciszewo (Sianów)

Wierciszewo (German name: Wandhagen ) is a village in Western Pomerania , now in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural municipality Sianów ( Zanow ) in the Koszalin ( Köslin ) district.

Geographical location

The farming village of Wierciszewo is located on a side road that leads from Landesstraße 6 (formerly German Reichsstraße 2 , today also European route 28 ) Stettin - Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Danzig via Karnieszewice ( Karnkewitz ) to Bielkowo ( Beelkow ) on the voivodship road 203 Koszalin - Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) leads. It is 20 kilometers to the district town of Koszalin and 19 kilometers to the Baltic city of Darłowo. The nearest train station is Skibno ( Schübben-Zanow ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

In the west, Wierciszewo borders on Sucha Koszalińska ( Zuchen ) and Rzepkowo ( Repkow ), in the north on Iwięcino ( Eventin ) and Bielkowo ( Beelkow ), in the east on Wiekowice ( Wieck ) and in the south on Karnieszewice ( Karnkewitz ). The former so-called Zingelbach flows through the middle of the village .

Wierciszewo is a former Hagenhufensiedlung and two kilometers long. Until 1945 the place was divided into the "Upper End" ( Böwerst En ) and the "Lower End" ( Nerrest En ).

Place name

The origin of the German name Wandhagen is not known. Originally the village was called Vogelsang and was located further south. A residential space of the same name was retained until 1945.

history

The history of Wandhagen is hardly documented. It is very likely that the village was a complex of the Cistercian monks from Buckow Monastery , to which it was also subordinate. After the Reformation in Pomerania in 1535, the village came to the Rügenwalder office .

Around 1780 there were in Wandhagen: 1 Schulze, 16 farmers, 2 Landkossaten , 5 Büdner , 1 schoolmaster and a total of 25 fireplaces. In 1818 318 people lived here. The population rose to 587 in 1871, but then fell to 493 by 1939.

Until 1945, Wandhagen and the villages of Abtshagen (now Polish: Dobiesław), Beelkow (Bielkowo), Eventin (Iwięcino) and Wieck (Wiekowice) belonged to the Eventin district in the Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin . The place was officially connected to these communities - with the exception of Abtshagen - to the Eventin registry office . The last mayor of Wandhagen was Hugo Schwarz.

In December 1944, refugees from East Prussia sought protection from the approaching Soviet troops in Wandhagen. On March 9, 1945 the place was occupied by Soviet troops. Like all of Western Pomerania, Wandhagen was then placed under Polish administration. In May 1946, the robbery of Polish and Ukrainian immigrants from areas east of the Curzon Line began . The residents were pushed out of their homes. In autumn 1946 the last German was also expelled.

Wandhagen was now called Wierciszewo . It is a district of Gmina Sianów ( Zanow ) and is now part of the Powiat Koszaliński ( Köslin ) of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

church

Before 1945 the residents of Wandhagen were up to 98% of the Protestant denomination. The village was in the parish Eventin (now Polish: Iwięcino ), and the Eventin village church was the ecclesiastical center. The deceased were buried in the cemetery in Eventin, in whose stone wall a special wall hanger gate was set in, under which the funeral ceremonies initially took place before they were moved to the church. The wall hanger gate in Eventin was adorned with the psalm verse: “ Go to its gates with thanks ”.

The parish Eventin was in the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Heinz Puttkamer.

Today, the population of Wierciszewo almost exclusively Catholic denomination, the village is now part Bielkowo ( Beelkow ) Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ) Iwięcino ( Eventin ) Rzepkowo ( Repkow ) Wiekowo ( Old Wieck ) and Wiekowice ( Wieck ) for Parafia (= parish whose pastor () Dobiesław since 2002: Tadeusz Gorla) is also responsible for the earlier church Eventin or current branch church Iwięcino.

The Protestant church members living here today are looked after by the parish office in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg (i.e. Lutheran) Church in Poland.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Albert Schwarz (1859–1921), German dialect poet

literature

• M. Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book. 2 volumes, Husum 1989.
• Herbert Zielke: Right behind the Gollen. The city of Zanow and its neighboring communities. 3 volumes, Husum 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Road map of Hinterpommern: Köslin - Stolp - Danzig , 9th edition, Höfer erlag, Dietzenbach 2005, ISBN 978-3-931103-14-9 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '  N , 16 ° 19'  E