Garczegorze
Garczegorze ( German Garzigar, Kashubian: Garczegorze and Garczigôrz ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community of Nowa Wies Lęborska ( Neuendorf, Lauenburg / Pomerania ) in Leborski powiat ( county Lauenburg / Pomerania ).
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Geographical Location and Transport
The Kashubian village Garczegorze located in Pomerania, about six kilometers north of the county town Lębork ( Lauenburg / Pomerania ) and 20 kilometers south of the Baltic Sea resort Leba ( Leba ) on the province road 214 from Leba coming to Lębork and on about Kościerzyna ( Berent / West Prussia ) and Skórcz ( Skurz ) leads up to Warlubie ( Warlubien ).
Garczegorze is a railway station on the national railway line 229 of Lębork to Łeba. The old railway line from Neustadt / West Prussia Chottschow after Garzigar Lauenburg tracks is no longer in operation.
Place name
Earlier forms of the name are: Gorczegar ( 1348 ), Garczingar (1402 ), Garczegor ( 1437) and Gatzegar ( 1628).
History
The settlement due to Garczegorze old. It suggests BC, the finding of a court urn with bronze earrings and a bronze spiral thread as necklaces from the first millennium.
In 1348 handed the Gdansk Commander of the Teutonic Knights, Heinrich Rechtir, the two locators Arnold and vetch hand feasts for half the village in order to occupy it after kulmischem right with settlers. This Garzigar is the oldest religious foundation on Lauenburgischem area. Around the year 1784 there were in the village eleven full- farmers, two Kossäten, a Büdner and a total of 19 fireplaces ( dispensations ).
In 1910 the village had 507 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1933 to 693 in 1939 and was still 643 to the municipality the villages Johannistal belonged (now Polish: Janisławiec ) and Obliwitz ( Obliwice ).
Before 1945, the village belonged to the district of Lauenburg in Pomerania in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. After the end of World War II Garzigar was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. Garzigar was renamed by the Poles in Garczegorze.
The village is now part of Gmina Nowa Wies Lęborska in powiat Leborski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). Garczegorze is a mayor's office and now has 364 inhabitants.
Church
Parish
Even before the arrival of the Teutonic Order had Garzigar a church - was dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene - as well as the current building since 1945. The Reformation came here together with the surrounding villages. Most of the people known to the Lutheran doctrine. Still had about 1641 the Protestant congregation leave the church building to the Catholics - under pressure from the bishop Maciej Łubieński of Cujavia and Pomerania during the Counter-Reformation. She was daughter church of Lauenburg. The evangelical Christians had since their services on the board of the Office Schulz hold, because first in 1740 they were able to build a new church own.
The Catholics on set building fell more and more in 1770 and had to be rebuilt again. After only 70 years, but fell into disrepair and this building collapsed, but after the Catholic community had already been explained here in 1837 lapsed. The evangelical community could build a new church by royal grace funds in 1817.
Until 1945 there was the Protestant parish Garzigar, which included 20 villages, including Kamelow (now Polish: Kębłowo Nowowiejskie ) Obliwitz ( Obliwice ) Reckow ( Rekowo Leborskie ) and Villkow ( Wilkowo Nowowiejskie ). Until 1893 also Belgard had heard at the Leba ( Białogarda ) as a branch church for parish Garzigar until then was a reorganization. The place Neuendorf b. Lauenburg ( Nowa Wies Lęborska ) remained until 1945, most recently in 1500 church members a branch church of Garzigar whose parish counted a total of 3100 members of the congregation in 1940. It belonged to the church district of Lauenburg ( Lębork ) Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.
After 1945, the situation changed in denominational Garczegorze. Since then, here lives a predominantly Catholic population, and the St. Mary Magdalene church was the parish church of the parish, which also includes the towns of Darżkowo ( Darschkow ) Janisławiec ( Johannistal ) Janowice ( United Jannewitz ) Janowiczki (small Jannewitz ) Obliwice ( Obliwitz ) Pogorszewo ( Puggenschow ) Rozgorze ( Rosgars ) and Wilkowo ( Villkow ) belong. The parish is in the deanery Leba ( Leba ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are the parish church of the Cross Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska associated with the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland, which ( in Pomerania Lauenburg ) maintains a branch church in Lębork.