Wrześnica (Sławno)

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Wrześnica (German name Freetz ) is a village in the north-east of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the Powiat Sławieński . Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 2 ″  N , 16 ° 46 ′ 56 ″  E

Geographical location

The farming village Wrześnica is located in Western Pomerania , nine kilometers east of Sławno ( Schlawe ). Neighboring towns of Wrześnica are: Sławsko ( Alt Schlawe ) in the west, Pałowo ( Alt Paalow ) and Nosalin ( Nitzlin ) in the north, Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) in the east (already in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ) and Noskowo ( Notzkow ) and Warszkowo ( Alt Warschow ) in the south.

The landscape is flat, only partly hilly. To the east of the village is a 60 meter high (above sea level) sand and gravel mountain. To the north is the so-called Revelsberg in the Freetzer Heide , which extends northwest of the village to the valley of the Wieprza ( Wipper ).

history

Little is known about the history of the expanded village - the center by the church was called the triangle before 1945 . In the Freetzer Heide you will find an overgrown hill surrounded by a moat, which was called the castle before 1945 and indicates an early castle complex.

Freetz has belonged to the Rügenwalder office since ancient times . In 1652 the cities of Rügenwalde (Darłowo), Schlawe and Stolp (Słupsk) held a convention to protest against the Swedish tax collection in the dispute between Brandenburg and Sweden .

Around 1780 Freetz was a village with 19 farmers, 1 free school, 4 land counts (including 1 miller and 1 blacksmith), 3 Büdner, 1 school house and 1 shepherd's cottage with a total of 32 fireplaces (households). In 1818 289 inhabitants lived here, the number of which rose to 1023 by 1885 and was 900 in 1939.

Freetz east of Rügenwalde on the Baltic Sea (left half of the picture, center, can be enlarged by clicking), northeast of Schlawe and southwest of Stolp on a map from 1910.

Until 1945 Freetz belonged to the district and registry office district Notzkow (Noskowo) and to the district court area Schlawe. The village was in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

In March 1945, Red Army troops occupied the place. There were arbitrary shootings and numerous residents were abducted. Freetz was then placed under Polish administration and renamed Wrześnica . The residents were driven out .

The village is now part of the Gmina Sławno in the powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ). In 2012 Wrześnica had about 760 inhabitants.

Local division until 1945

Before 1945 there were two residential spaces in the Freest community:

  1. Freetzer Mühle (Polish: Wrześniczka), water mill, three kilometers west of the town on the boundary with Alt Schlawe (Sławsko), the mill used to belong to the Rügenwalder office
  2. Fichtkaten (Zielonka), farm, two kilometers north of the village on the northern edge of the Freetzer Heide on the boundary with Nitzlin (Nosalin).

church

Church in Wrześnica

Parish

Before 1945, the Freetz population was predominantly of the Protestant denomination. The village formed an independent church community, with the parishes Old Schlawe (Sławsko) and Stemnitz (Staniewice) the parish belonged to Old Schlawe. It was integrated into the Rügenwalde (Darłowo) parish until 1928 , then into the Schlawe (Sławno) parish of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1940, 970 of the 2904 parish parishioners belonged to the parish of Freetz. The last German clergyman was Pastor Paul Hollatz .

Almost without exception, Roman Catholic church members have lived in Wrześnica since 1945 . The village is now a subsidiary of the parish Warszkowo ( Old Warschow ) , which was newly established in 1998, in the Sławno dean's office in the Köslin-Kolberg diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical believers living here are assigned to the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland with the parish offices in Koszalin ( Köslin ) and Słupsk ( Stolp ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland .

Village church

The red brick church with belfry and tower is a neo-Gothic building from the 19th century. It was inaugurated on December 9, 1868. Several liturgical objects (baptismal bowl made of brass, altar candlesticks) and wooden figures (Mary, Paul, etc.) were still present from the previous church. Before 1945 there was a ceiling painting above the altar: in a sky decorated with stars, an angel in a light blue robe and a waving peace sash with the saying: Glory to God in the heights and peace on earth among people in whom God is well pleased.

Until 1945, the church was used exclusively for Protestant services. In 1945 it was expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church, which in the same year rededicated it under the name Matki Bożej Pocieszenia (Mother of God of Consolation).

school

The Freetz elementary school was built around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Until 1945 she had three classrooms and two teacher's apartments. A school had existed in Freetz since at least 1784.

Personalities born in the place

  • Johann Cunde (1724 / 25–1759), German theologian and schoolboy.

traffic

South of the village runs the Landesstraße 6 (formerly German Reichsstraße 2 , today also Europastraße 28 ) Danzig - Stettin . The place is a train station on the Gdansk – Stargard railway line .

literature

  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1988/1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania ( Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann , ed.). Part II, Volume 2, 1784, p. 852, No. 7 .
  2. ↑ a b Michael Kallas: Local family book of the rural community Freetz Kreis Schlawe. Ostpommersche Jahreshefte. Published by the Ostpommern e. V. 2010/2011.