Gleźnowo

Gleznowo ( German name Steinort, Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in Pomerania. It now belongs to the rural commune ( gmina ) Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ) of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

The farming village Gleznowo is located on the Baltic coast road, as the province road No. 203, the cities of Koszalin ( Koszalin ), Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) and Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) together. Until after Darłowo is 15 kilometers and the county seat Sławno ( Schlawe ) can be reached after 27 kilometers. The nearest train station is Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk.

Gleznowo is located in the extreme southwest of the country community Darłowo on a wide, almost flat lowlands of Jezioro Bukowo ( Buckower lake ) just a few meters above sea level. To the south lies the community Bielkowo ( Beelkow ), in the southeast of the village Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ), to the east Boryszewo ( Büssow ) and the Northeast Bukowo Morskie ( See Buckow ).

Originally was Gleznowo 1 to 2 kilometers further north to Jezioro Bukowo out. Storm surges with flooding of the Baltic Sea in the lake forced a relocation of farms further inland. The last eruption of the Baltic Sea was carried out in 1836, before 1804.

Place name

The Polish name " Gleznowo " corresponds to the old Wendish form of the name " Glesenowe ". A direct translation of this word is the German name " Steinort ". After the flood of 1804 there was an internal differentiation of the village districts "Old " and "New Steinort ".

History

The village Steinort likely to have been colonized in 1300 by the monastery Buckow from. 1275 confirm prince Wizlaw II of Rügen and Duke Mestwin II of Pomerellen the possessions of the monastery. In an instrument is also called " Glesenowe ".

After the Reformation in 1535 in Pomerania, the former monastery village comes to the Official Rügenwalde. In 1550, Duke Barnim IX attacks. of Pomerania in favor of fishermen from Steinort and Dąbki (Polish: Dąbki ) because, on the Rügenwalder Office had forbidden them to sell their fish in the Baltic Sea town.

In 1784 there are 10 farmers in Steinort, Landkossäten 2, 5 and 1 Büdner schoolmaster. 1818 251 people live here. The population is 1871 597 cooperation, but falls to 1939 on 498 with the communities Böbbelin ( Bobolin ) Büssow ( Boryszewo ) Dąbki ( Dąbki ) See Buckow ( Bukowo Morskie ) and Lake Suckow ( Żukowo Morskie ) forms Steinort to 1945 the District Büssow i in the district Schlawe Pom. These communities ( with the exception of Lake Suckow ) also provide the civil registry district Büssow based in Lake Buckow dar.

On 5 March 1945, the occupation of the site is carried out by Russian troops. The population was initially marketed, but then brought back to work assignments in State Farm See Buckow. As of November 1945, the German courts was taken over by Poland. Steinort was named Gleznowo and is now part of Gmina Darłowo in powiat Slawienski in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 in the province of Pomerania ).

Church

The church of 1945 mostly Protestant inhabitants of the village church was Steinort See Buckow. With Steinort the community Büssow, and Dąbki See Buckow and (later ausgepfarrte by Peter Hagen) Branch community Pirbstow belonged (now Polish: Przystawy ) Parish See Buckow, which was in the church of the Evangelical Church of Pomerania Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Waldemar Knieß. After his sudden death on December 31, 1945 Mrs. Elfriede Long with Russian and Polish approval was responsible for the church's support of the Germans.

Today, the inhabitants of Gleznowo predominantly Catholic denomination. The few evangelical church members are now powered by the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church.

School

Already in 1784 a schoolmaster is mentioned in Steinort. Between 1840 and 1882, when the two districts of Old and New Steinort were separated, each had its own school. In 1910, the two-class school was built with teacher apartments. The last German school holders in Steinort before 1945 was a teacher Heinrich Menke