Wołcza Wielka

Wołcza Wielka
Help on coat of arms	Wołcza Wielka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Pomerania
Powiat :	Bytów
Gmina :	Miastko
Geographic location :	53 ° 59 '  N , 16 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '29 "  N , 16 ° 55' 34"  E
Residents :	330 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	77-200 Miastko
Telephone code :	(+48) 59
License plate :	GBY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Miastko - Żydowo
Rail route :	PKP line 405: Piła - Ustka , train station: Miastko (4 km)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wołcza Wielka ( German  Groß Volz ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Miastko (municipality of Rummelsburg) in the powiat Bytowski (Bütower district) .

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , in the Bütower Lake District ( Pojezierze Bytowskie ), four kilometers west of Rummelsburg ( Miastko ) on the Kirchsee ( Jezioro Kościelne ).

The place can be reached via a side road that connects Miastko on state roads 20 and 21 and voivodship road 206 with Sępolno Małe ( Klein Karzenburg ) near state road 25 . The railway station is Miastko on the state railway line No. 405 Piła ( Schneidemühl ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

Neighboring communities of Wołcza Wielka are: Kołtki ( Hölkewiese , already located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ) and Bobięcino ( Papenzin ) in the west, Kamnica ( Kamnitz ) and Łodzierz ( Hanswalde ) in the north, the city of Miastko in the east, and Wołcza Mała ( Klein Volz ) in the south.

history

The village belongs to the founding of the 16th century. In 1541 it was still “ a desert field mark ”, but as early as 1590 the church register mentions 13 farmers and 1 kossat . In 1717, however, there are only five half-farmers left, but in the 18th century their number rose by ten more.

When it was founded, the place was already divided into Groß ( negestes ) and Klein ( furderstes ) Volz, even if the Feldmark was used undivided. The Lettow and Massow families were the owners. The Lettow share was owned by Thomas Lettow in 1655 . Jakob Massow bought this share from him . With a few brief exceptions, the property remained in this family until 1945.

Before 1945, Groß Volz was a rural community in the Rummelsburg i. Pom. the Prussian province of Pomerania . In addition to Groß Volz, there were the residential areas Jägerhaus I , Jägerhaus II , Neuvorwerk , Schlößchen and Ziegelei in the community .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the region around Groß Volz was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, the place, like all of Western Pomerania, was placed under Polish administration. Then the immigration of Polish civilians began. Groß Volz received the new Polish name Wołcza Wielka . In the following period the Alteinwohner were from Great Volz sold .

Today the place belongs to Gmina Miastko in the powiat Bytowski of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998: Stolp Voivodeship ).

Population development

In 1812 Groß Volz had 21 houses with 133 residents. The population rose to 256 by 1871 and was almost the same in 1925. In 1939 there were 243 inhabitants in Groß Volz.

330 people live here today.

church

Before 1945 the population of Groß Volz was almost without exception Protestant . The place has its own church to this day, which was then a branch church in the west parish of the Rummelsburg parish church . It belonged to the parish of Rummelsburg in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union .

The parish Groß Volz, to which the places Hanswalde (now Polish: Łodzierz), Kamnitz (Kamnica) and Klein Volz (Wołcza Mała) belonged, had a total of 1,089 parishioners in 1940. The church patronage rights were last represented by the manor owners Massow (Groß Volz) and Haßlacher (Kamnitz). The last German clergyman before 1945 was Pastor Siegfried Gumpert.

The church in Groß Volz is one of only two village churches in Western Pomerania that remained Protestant after the Second World War, while the Polish Catholic Church appropriated most of the Protestant church buildings in Western Pomerania. Today the church is - like Białogard ( Belgard ), Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) and Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) - a branch church of the Parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) of the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The number of Protestant churchgoers is falling. Evangelical church service in German took place once a month in 2011, but the continuation today (2012) is uncertain.

Since 2000, the church building has been used by the Polish Catholic Church, which reads Catholic masses there every Sunday, in exchange for rent. In 2012 the Catholic priest had the door lock replaced, preventing it from being used by the few remaining Protestant believers.

school

Already in 1730 there was a school in Groß Volz, its own school building only in 1784. In 1937 1 teacher taught 32 school children here.

literature

• The district of Rummelsburg. A home book , ed. by the district committee of the Rummelsburg district in 1938, newly published by the home district committee Rummelsburg, Hamburg, 1979

Footnotes

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2017
2. ^ Community Groß Volz in the information system Pomerania.
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rummelsburg.html # ew39rumlmgrvlz. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Pomeranian home church. No. X / 2008. Supplement in: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 43/2008, pp. 15-16.
5. ^ Pomeranian home church. No. III / 2011. Supplement in: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 12/2011, p. 15.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Pomeranian home church. No. X / 2012. Supplement in: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 43/2012, p. 15.