ÅÄ™czno, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Łęczno ( Lenzen German ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 7.1 Literature
- 7.2 External links
- 7.3 footnotes
Geographical location
Approximately 6 kilometers south-west of Białogard ( Belgard ), the village is part of the rural municipality ( gmina ) Białogard in powiat Białogardzki.
History
The Pomeranian place Lenzen - it bordered in the north near the settlement Wiesenhof (now Polish: Żabiniec ) to the Persante - was a rich farming village. As a " wonderful country " property, it belonged to the castle of Belgard until the entire area was placed under the Princely Office Belgard in 1628. In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War it was for some time at Colonel Siegfried of Damnitz. Name later owners are Gehrke, of Knobelsdorfstrasse and Balthasar.
In the bankruptcy of Gutsbetriebes in 1904 Lenzen was a purely farming village with then 43 farms. In the village there were two brickyards, which worked in clay found in the northwest of the municipality. Moreover, were a blacksmith shop, a wheelwright's shop, a tailor shop, a bakery, a grocery store and an inn on the site.
In 1939, Lenzen had 725 inhabitants. Default traffic was the village on the road Belgard - United Rambin and the small railway Rarfin - Belgard ( breakpoints: Lenzen Brickyard and Lenzen Wiesenhof ) to reach. Last mayor before 1945 was Fritz Trapp.
Beginning of March 1945 the Red Army troops occupied the place. As a result of the war the German population was expelled. Today's Polish Łęczno is a district of the rural community Białogard.
Registry office Lenzen
By 1945, the municipalities of the Office Grüssow included ( Grüssow and Lenzen ) and Zarnefanz ( Boissin, Naffin, Ristow and Zarnefanz ) to civil registry district Lenzen.
Parish Lenzen
Lenzen was an old parish village. For parish Lenzen also Grüssow belonged (now Polish: Gruszewo ). The congregation Lenzen made with the branch communities Zarnefanz ( Czarnowęsy ) with Naffin ( Nawino ) and Boissin ( Byszyno ) with Ristow ( Rzyszczewo ) the parish Lenzen. Actually included the parish communities by Belgard. But because the Belgarder pastor because often " roaring water flooding" the Persante not always reached the villages, has its own pastor has been used since 1574 in Lenzen.
By 1945, the parish church Lenzen for Belgard belonged in the church of the Evangelical Church of Pomerania Old Prussian Union. The parish counted in 1940 together 2019 church members, of which 900 belonged to the parish Lenzen, 570 to the daughter church Zarnefanz and 549 to the daughter church Boissin.
Today, the village is part of the Parafia ( parish ) Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska the Kosiol Ewangelicko - Augsburski ( Luterański ) w Polsce (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg ( Lutheran ) Confession in Poland).
Churches
- Lenzen: The church dates from the Middle Ages. The choir was fundamentally renewed in 1867. The tower of brick and fieldstone was well received.
- Zarnefanz: The church was a simple timber-frame building with shingle tower. Because of disrepair the church was demolished before 1960.
- Boissin: The rectangular church of hewn fieldstone was built in the second half of the 19th century. The gables are decorated in brick plant, a tower or roof skylights was not built: the two bells hanging inside the entrance on the gable.
School
Already existed in 1863 in Lenzen a school
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Clara Müller- Jahnke (1860-1905), German socialist poet, journalist and women 's rights activist