Biesowice

Biesowice [b ʲ ɛsɔv it͡sɛ ʲ ] ( German Beßwitz ) is a village in Poland in Pomeranian province. It belongs to the powiat Słupski. In 1975 to 1998, the town belonged administratively to the province Slupsk. Biesowice is crossed by the river Wieprza and lies with its own railway station on the railway line Slupsk - Miastko - Szczecinek.

History

The site was first documented in 1480 as an ancient fief of the family von Zitzewitz. In the 19th century the estate Beßwitz included with the associated outworks a surface area of 15,000 Magdeburg morning with significant forests along the rivers Wipper and Stüdnitz. During the Thirty Years' War Beßwitz was severely afflicted, so that in 1655 only 16 farmers were present. However, in 1784 were already 17 farms, a blacksmith and a pitcher worked. A schoolmaster was available in the village. The estate included a Established in 1863, White sheet glass factory, a grinding and cutting mill, a brickyard and a lime kiln. Upon introduction of the Prussian district classification from 1815 Beßwitz came to Pomerania to Schlawe, but was part of a boundary change on February 8, 1878 assigned to the Rummelsburg county. The Church of Beßwitz was inaugurated in 1891. With the opening of the railway Pommern - Stolp Beßwitz received in 1878 its own train station. 1897 took near Beßwitz a power plant on its operation, which was later developed into a hydroelectric plant. 1910 had the village Beßwitz 156 and the Good 464 inhabitants in 1939, a total of 465 inhabitants determined.

Among the best known representatives of the Gutsfamilie the abbot of Huysburg Nicolaus von Zitzewitz, 1634 * Good Beßwitz, Ernst von Zitzewitz, Prussian colonel and politician, † August 15, 1899 on Good Beßwitz and Franz von Zitzewitz, from 1825 to 1842 belonged to Major in the Prussian Garde Dragoons Regiment.

Church

Before 1945 Beßwitz had exclusively Protestant inhabitants and belonged to the Church Schlawe in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German clergyman was Rev. Bernhard acetylene, which until June 23, 1946 lived from October 1, 1941 in Beßwitz.