Baszewice

Baszewice ( German Batzwitz ) is a village in the powiat Gryficki the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

The village is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 6 kilometers south of Gryfice ( Pommern ) and 84 kilometers north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

History

Batzwitz with the castle, mill and the church and the feudal Vikarienlehen had been one of a number of estates, the Pomeranian Duke Philip I the brothers and cousins ​​Mellin in 1540 had given in fief. A part of the village had been held since 1774 in the possession of the fief Plötz family, the rest of the district on which there were about 1784 eight farmers who belonged to the Church of St. Mary Pommern. Batzwitz was around 1930, consisting of six living quarters rural community:

• Adolfshof
• Station Batzwitz
• Batzwitz
• Chausseehaus Lebbin
• Lebbin
• Vahnerow

Lebbin was a Vorwerk. The boundaries of the municipality Batzwitz comprised 15 sq.ft. kilometers; in 1925 the community had 525 inhabitants.

By 1945 Batzwitz belonged to the district of Trieglaff district Pommern, and 1937 in the district of Stettin, from 1938 to 1945 in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. The region was made ​​after the end of World War II under Polish administration. The residents who had not fled earlier before the approaching war front, were then distributed. Houses and farms of the German inhabitants were seized as part of Polish expropriation measures. In 2008 the village had 284 inhabitants.

Church

The church was built using boulders was ordained by Bishop Henry Woggersin in 1440. As a church tower served for a long time a verbretterter wooden tower, which was built according to the inscription in 1706. The Protestant parish of Batzwitz with his mother belonged to the church Greifenberger Synod.