Kczewo, SÅ‚upsk County

Kczewo ( German name Egsow ) is a village in Poland on the border between the Province of Pomerania and West Pomerania Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Kobylnica ( Kublitz ) in the district of Slupsk ( Stolp ).

Geographical location

The former estate village Kczewo located 14 kilometers east of Sławno ( Schlawe ) and 18 kilometers west of Slupsk on a side street, the main road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28 ) Gdansk - Szczecin in Reblino ( Reblin ) with the province road 209 at Tychowo ( (Wendish ) Tychow ) Sławno - Bytów ( Buetow ) connects. The nearest railway station is in Słonowice ( United Schlönwitz ) to the state railway line 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

The landscape of Kczewo is slightly hilly. Numerous fields, meadows, deciduous and pine forests make it more varied.

History

In a document, in the Swantopolk II of Pomerania (1195-1266) the Order of St. John several villages, including the then -called Hiweze Egsow about is, the village was first mentioned. In the Middle Ages, he is one of Kleis Tsches fief, and in 1628 Hans Natzmer is called to Egsow. 1734 is the village to the family of Blumenthal. Through marriages the estate comes in 1847 to the family of Bulow.

1784 had Egsow 1 Vorwerk, 1 water mill, 6 peasants, 1 blacksmith, 1 school master and a newly created Vorwerk, the Schäferey. 1818 lived 120 inhabitants, the number rose to 1925 on 221 Thereafter, the place in the community Besow ( Bzowo ) has been integrated.

1940 burns off a part of the farmhouse. He comes back up, the manor is but demolished after 1945.

Egsow was before 1945 a part of the community Besow ( Bzowo ) and belonged to the district of Besow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. After 1945 the town was Polish and was named Kczewo. He is now a place in the Gmina Kobylnica powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).

Church

Before 1945, the population of Egsow predominantly Protestant denomination was. The place was in the parish of Great Schlönwitz ( Słonowice ) the parish, which belonged to the church Schlawe in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Otto Range.

Today the population of Kczewo is almost exclusively Catholic. The location is integrated in the parish Słonowice that belongs to the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. In Kczewo living evangelical church members today the Parish Office in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland are assigned.

School

The children of Egsow visited before 1945 the primary school in Besow ( Bzowo ).