Białęcino

Białęcino ( German Balenthin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Malechowo in powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

The former farming village Białęcino than twelve kilometers south of the county town Sławno ( Schlawe ) and two miles west of the province road 205 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) - Sławno - Polanów ( Pollnow ) - Bobolice ( Bublitz )) between Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ) and Nowy Żytnik ( New Mill ) embedded in the valley of the Grabowa ( Grabow ). To the northwest lies Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) in the north to the East Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ), in the south Zielenica ( Söllnitz ) and to the west Lejkowo ( Leikow ). The village lies on the edge of a floor threshold. Approximately 60 meters above sea level south to drop to about 15 meters to Grabowtal. The highest elevation is the earlier so-called Ficht mountain with 78 meters in the forest of Białęcino at the eastern end of the town.

History

In 1347 Balenthin is mentioned for the first time in a document. In the deed the Swenzonen Jasco by Slaw and his son Peter in a dispute with their Erbherren acknowledge the award of Camminer Bishop John I of Saxe- Lauenburg.

1655 occur, the widow and heirs of Nicholas von Below from Wusterwitz ( Ostrowiec ) than owners. A short time later, Adam Podewils acquired on Krag ( Krag ) the village, and in the possession of this family it remained until 1858.

In 1784 Balenthin had a Vorwerk, nine farmers, three Kossäten, a schoolmaster, a lime kiln and animal husbandry, and fishing in the Grabow.

In 1858, Oskar Schimmelpfennig bought the manor. End of the 19th century took over the princes of Pless in Upper Silesia the estate, but sold it before the First World War. The Good Balenthin was settled.

1818 84 inhabitants lived here. Their number increased in 1871 to 201, but then decreased to 1939 to 117

Before 1945 Balenthin was, together with the hamlet Balenthin ( smallholding ) ( Białęciniec ) ( the Vorwerk Balenthin ( Białęcinko ) belonged since 1928 to Wusterwitz ) for District Wusterwitz ( Ostrowiec ) in the district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Civil ceremony the place after blessing Thin ( Żegocino ) was oriented, and the district court was in Schlawe.

End of February 1945 came the Red Army troops before up to the Grabow and penetrated as far as Wusterwitz ago. The population of Balenthin received the evacuation order on March 4. After three days of stay in the forest, the inhabitants were finally evacuated to Nitzlin ( Nosalin ). On March 14, they returned to their home village, they found the badly damaged. Mid-1946 took over the Polish peasant farms. Balenthin came as Białęcino to Gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Balenthin ( smallholding )

The district Balenthin ( smallholding ) (now Polish: Białęciniec ) dialect was called the Heeg or pike. It was the former farm of the former estate. He was one kilometers northwest of the village Balenthin. It included two farms.

Church

Balenthin belonged before 1945 along with the village Wiesenthal ( Święcianowo ) to the Protestant church Wusterwitz in the same parish church in the Church of the Old Prussian Schlawe Union. Since 1945, it continues to - but now Catholic - parish Ostrowiec assigned and is part of the deanery Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The few Protestant residents are cared for in Poland now the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church.

School

Before 1945 Balenthin had a class elementary school for about 16 to 18 children. Last German school teacher Schmidt holder was until 1939, after the kids went to war in the school of German Puddiger ( Podgórki ).