Witno

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Witno (Poland)
Witno
Witno
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Gryfice
Gmina : Gryfice
Geographic location : 53 ° 57 '  N , 15 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '40 "  N , 15 ° 3' 45"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZGY
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 105 : Świerzno – Gryfice
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Szczecin-Goleniów



Witno (German Wittenfelde, Greifenberg district ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to Gmina Gryfice ( Greifenberg ) in the Gryficki powiat ( Greifenberg district ).

Geographical location

Witno is located three kilometers north of the voivodship road 105 from Świerzno ( Schwirsen ) to Gryfice ( Greifenberg ) and can be reached via the Stuchowo ( Stuchow ) junction . The district towns of Gryfice and Kamień Pomorski ( Cammin ) are 16 and 19 kilometers away, and the Baltic coast at Pobierowo ( Poberow ) is 18 kilometers away.

A railway connection has not existed since the Greifenberg-Horst-Treptow railway line of the Greifenberger Kleinbahn with the Medewitz railway station (now in Polish: Niedźwiedziska) by the Polish State Railways no longer exists .

history

Between 1816 and 1945 Wittenfelde was a village in the district of Greifenberg i. Pom. in the administrative district of Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . It belonged to the administrative and civil registry district Ribbekardt . In 1905 105 people lived here, the number of which remained almost the same at 110 in 1933 and 104 in 1939.

Wittenfelde has been Polish under the name Witno since 1945 and is part of the Gmina Gryfice (urban and rural municipality of Greifenberg) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Szczecin Voivodeship ).

Place name

The German name Wittenfelde appeared three times in Pomerania before 1945. The Polish naming has no parallel.

church

Village church

Before 1945, the former Protestant church in Wittenfeld was one of the most handsome churches in the district of Greifenberg i. Pom. That from the 15./16. The church, which dates back to the 19th century, impressed with its valuable interior.

The interior of the church is spanned by a colorful beam ceiling, from which a baptismal angel from 1698 floats down.

The altar is decorated with lush acanthus. Next to the painted crucifixion there are two Mannerist figures of Matthew and Mark . As a crown, the risen Christ with the flag. Two rich altar cabinets show angels with instruments of torture.

The altar is the work of the sculptor Rosenberg from Stettin , whose son-in-law Erhard Löffler was the creator of the 23 meter high altar of the Stettin Jacobi Church .

Since the Catholic Church took over the church, it has been called Kościół św. Stanisław Kostka (St. Stanisław Kostka ).

Parish

Before 1945, the small town of Wittenfelde was predominantly inhabited by Protestant church members. The place was a parish village for the parish Wittenfelde, to which the parish of Stuchow (now in Polish: Stuchowo) was assigned. The parish also included the places Kambz (Kępica), Lüttkenhagen (Krzepocin), Medewitz (Niedźwiedziska), Neuhöfe (Osiecze) and Staarz (Starza).

In 1940 the parish had 1,268 parishioners, half of whom lived in the parish and half in the branch village. At that time, the parish was part of the parish of Greifenberg in Ostsprengel the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Prussian Union of churches .

A predominantly Catholic population has lived in Witno since 1945 . The village is no longer the parish seat, but belongs as a branch parish to the parish of Stuchowo ( Stuchow ), which belongs to the dean's office Kamień Pomorski ( Cammin ) in the Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here now belong to the parish of Stettin in the diocese of Wroclaw of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The church is located in Trzebiatów ( Treptow an der Rega ), where St. John's Church ( old Lutheran before 1945 ) is now the Protestant church.

Pastor until 1945

Since the Reformation and until the expulsion, 22 evangelical clergy were in office in Wittenfeld:

  1. Bernhard Pokefitz, until 1574
  2. Georg Vollmar, 1575–1611
  3. Joachim Zülich, 1611–1653
  4. Joachim Graskrüger, 1654–1678
  5. Samuel Hoppe, 1679-1700
  6. Petrus Rudolphi, 1701-1708
  7. Joachim Ulrich, 1709–1715
  8. Daniel Spies, 1716-1719
  9. Thomas Hoppe, 1719-1761
  10. Lorenz Johann Paul Handel, 1761
  11. Gotthilf Daniel Friedrich Schutzius, 1761–1772
  12. Paul Gottfried Munkel, 1773–1778
  13. Johann Peter Ludwig Munkel (brother of 12.), 1779–1785
  14. Georg Theodor August Crohn, 1786–1833
  15. Ernst Eduard Meyer, 1833–1856
  16. Johann Wilhelm Krause, 1857–1875
  17. Karl Paul Johannes Schönberg, 1875–1878
  18. Ernst Hans Ludwig von Winterfeld, 1878–1892
  19. Gustav Anton Ruff, 1892–1911
  20. Rudolf Klar, 1912–1927
  21. Alfred Pfitzner, 1928–1932
  22. Wolfgang Schaeffer, 1938–1945

literature

  • Heinrich Schulz, Pomeranian village churches east of the Oder , Herford, 1963
  • Hans Moderow , The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present , Part 1, Stettin, 1903