Wszedzień (Postomino)

Wszedzień (German Scheddin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural municipality Postomino ( Pustamin ) in district Sławno ( Slawno ).

Geographical location

The farming village of Wszedzień is located 14 kilometers northwest of the district town Sławno and 13 kilometers northeast of Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) on a country road that connects the voivodship road 205 (Sławno – Darłowo) via Stary Kraków ( Old Krakow ) with Jarosławiec ( Jershöft ) on the Baltic Sea . There is a rail link via Darłowo (until 1945 via Pennekow (Pieńkowo) on the Schlawe - Stolpmünde (Ustka) state railway ).

Wszedzień is located on a north facing tongue of about 15 meters above sea level. in front of the former so-called Scheddiner gate (between Scherwinningen - (58 meters) and Gollenberg (45 meters)), which was eaten by the meltwater of the Ice Age in the Zizow ridge . The natural connection between the Wippertal and the Vietzker See (Jezioro Wicko), which at that time was still a bay of the Baltic Sea , has always been used as a road by the population.

Neighboring communities of Wszedzień are: in the west Dzierżęcin ( Dörsenthin ), in the north Bylica ( Schönenberg ), Naćmierz ( Natzmershagen ) and Łącko ( Lanzig ), in the east Korlino ( Körlin ) and Chudaczewo ( Alt Kuddezow ), and in the south Masłowice ( Masselowice ) Kanin ( Kannin ).

Place name

The village was formerly a Wendish settlement. The name is said to be derived from Czata = "watch".

history

The remains of the barrows east and south-east of Scheddin suggest an old settlement. The village complex was originally an elongated circular structure around a pond overgrown with linden trees. The place is not mentioned in old documents, but it has belonged to the Rügenwalde office since ancient times . In 1456, Hinrik Slavemer to Scheddin was named as a witness in an original feud letter .

The village was subject to the lower jurisdiction of the "Hofedinges", the farmer's court in Natzmershagen . The castle bailiff in Rügenwalde was responsible for the higher jurisdiction . The farmers were in the Vorwerk Drosedow support duty. In 1648 nine farmers are named in Scheddin, including a Schulzenhof .

In 1818 175 inhabitants were registered here. Their number rose to 363 by 1871 and was 256 in 1939.

Until 1945 Scheddin was a municipality in the district of Neuenhagen, Amt (Jezierzany) in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . The village belonged to the registry office district Natzmershagen (Naćmierz) and the district court area Rügenwalde.

On March 7, 1945, the Red Army occupied the place. Six men (including Mayor Segler and Gendarme Trapp ) were deported to Graudenz (Grudziądz), where three of them perished. In April 1945, the entire village was relocated to Marienthal (Pomiłowo). They returned a few days later to a completely looted village. In August, Poland took over the place, which under the name Wszedzień was part of the Gmina Postomino in the powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Stolp Voivodeship ).

Local division until 1945

Before 1945, the living space belonged to the municipality of Scheddin

• Gollenberg (Polish: Chełmno Słowieńskie), three farms and a forest workers house, 2 kilometers southeast of Scheddin, 1939 with 15 inhabitants.

church

Scheddin, almost without exception Protestant , did not have its own church. Church was the village church in Lanzig (Łącko), to whose parish the place belonged. It was in the church district of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania in the church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Hans Gaedicke .

Wszedzień has been predominantly Catholic since 1945 . The village (still) belongs to the parish of Łącko, but now in the deanery Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members are now parish in the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945, Scheddin had a single-class elementary school for eight years with 50 to 60 students. The school yard was the filled in village pond.

literature

• Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . 2 volumes, Husum 1988/1989.

Coordinates: 54 ° 29 '  N , 16 ° 35'  E