Niemica, SÅ‚awno County
Niemica ( German: Nemitz, Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).
- 5.1 parish Nemitz
- 5.2 parish
Geographical location
Niemica lies in a flat hilly terrain at an average altitude of 20 meters above sea level. Towards the east and south, the terrain is hilly and intersected by the wooded valley on the slopes of Bielawa ( mill creek ).
The village lies on the main road 6 (until 1945: National Highway 2, today also: European Route 28) Szczecin-Gdańsk, 22 kilometers east of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) and 15 kilometers southwest of Sławno ( Schlawe ). In the village the roads branch off to Grabowo ( Martin Hagen ) Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ), after Bartolino ( Bartlin ) Sulechowo ( United Soltikow ) Polanów ( Pollnow ) and after Kusice from ( Kuhtz ) Ratajki ( Ratteick ). The station Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk is located seven kilometers further north.
Niemica is from the neighboring communities Pękanino ( Panknin ) and Grabowo, Gorzyca ( Göritz ) and Malechowo, Sulechowo, Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) and Kusice surrounded.
Local structure before 1945
The municipality included the villages Niemica
Place name
The place name comes in Poland again as Niemica ( Golczewo ) in the powiat Kamieński before and also a river in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship bears this name. In the German form Nemitz the place of Pomerania is also called, is also a village in Lower Saxony Wendland and a district of Stettin.
In both languages, the name is derived here from the Slavic " Niemen " = " dumb " polish = " Niemy ". This is the name Niemiec or Niemcy for the " Germans" or " Germany " emerged, where one assumes that the village was still a Germanic residual municipal vorwendischen the time, because the contact could not communicate in their own language with the villagers: they were the " dumb ", then the "Germans".
History
That Nemitz is a very old building ground is shown by numerous prehistoric finds. On the road to Louisenhof (Polish: Krzekoszewo ) east of the valley of Mill creek ( Bielawa ) spanned a 400 -meter-long burial ground dating from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Near the road to Panknin at the village end two cist graves were discovered.
Nemitz was first mentioned in the occasion of the consecration of the church by Bishop Sigwin of Pomerania (1193-1219), which endows them with two hoofs and the tithes of the place. Nemitz belonged then to the monastery Buckow ( Bukowo Morskie ) and after the Reformation to the Official Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ).
The village was early on a fief of the von Ramel. 1409 signs Henning Ramele of the Nemetze the expiation letter of Henning Glasenapp of Manow to the city Schlawe. 1628 Nemitz and Bartlin ( Bartolino ) is stated under Joachim von Ramele with 69 feet. The Ramel family was at that time one of the most important families in the country Schlawe and also in the villages Quatzow ( Kwasowo ) Wusterwitz ( Ostrowiec ) Leikow ( Lejkowo ) Soltikow and Kösternitz ( Kościernica ) invested.
In 1715 Nemitz goes to the captain Jürgen Valentin von Kleist. It remained in the possession of this family until the estate before the First World War by Georg von Kleist Dubislaw was sold by Natzmer. 1930 this will be settled.
In 1784, Nemitz has: 1 Vorwerk, 1 water mill, one saw mill, one sheep, one preacher, one clerk and one preacher widow's house, 5 farmers, 4 Kossäten, 1 pitcher and 1 forge. The number of inhabitants amounted in 1818 to 303 in 1895 to 286 in 1939 and then to 653, and in this number the work persons supplying services are included from the camp Nemitz.
By 1945, Nemitz was with Kuhtz, Leikow and Soltikow to the Official Soltikow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.
These churches, and in addition the place Söllnitz ( Zielenica ) were also associated to the registry office Soltikow.
On March 1, 1945 Nemitz was occupied by Russian troops. The indigenous population was displaced in the subsequent period and the place was Polish. Under the name Niemica he is today a district of Gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Anton von Kleist (1812-1886), Chief Executive of the circle Schlawer 1846-1856
Church
Parish Nemitz
Nemitz was before 1945 the seat of a parish office and the center of the eponymous parish to which the places Bartlin ( Bartolino ) and Kuhtz and the Branch community Klein Soltikow ( Sulechówko ) with large Soltikow, Leikow, Söllnitz and Borkow ( Borkowo ) belonged. Already in pre-Reformation time Nemitz was ecclesiastical administrative center, as namely the Camminer bishop Hermann von Gleichen united the inhabitants of Nemitz, Bartlin, Soltikow, Leikow, Borkow Zirchow, Kuhtz and Panknin to a parish.
By 1945, the parish belonged to the church district Nemitz Rügenwalde the Church of the Old Prussian Union. The inhabitants were almost exclusively Protestant denomination. The number of church members was in 1940 a total of 2183rd
( The name of the clergy to 1945 see the village church ( Niemica ) ).
The church patronage was the turn of 1250, Stephan von Nemitz to the monastery Buckow. Before 1945, the landowners of the parish villages had held the patronage: of Natzmer ( Nemitz ) and von Schlieffen ( small Soltikow ).
The church books have been conducted since 1647. The still existing today are the documents kept by the Branch community Klein Soltikow in the State Archives of Pomerania in the State Archives in Szczecin.
Today, the village is predominantly Catholic and belongs to Parafia Sulechówko (small Soltikow ). The Protestant church members in charge of the parish in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church in Poland.
Parish Church
Until 1945 the church was Nemitzer Protestant parish church. Since then, she's Catholic branch church of Sulechówko and bears the name " Assumption ".
In its basic structure Nemitz Church is probably the oldest church in the country Schlawe 1219 it has the Camminer Sigwin Bishop consecrated. It was built with massive western tower of brick and field stone foundations, several times later enlarged and rebuilt. Under the patronage of Anton von Kleist, the church was renovated and equipped with an organ. The interior of the church dates from the 17th century.
School
Mid-20s of the 20th century, a new school was built in Nemitz. It consisted of two classrooms and two teachers apartments with garden and a large fenced playground. The building is on the road to Kuhtz ( Kusice ). Already in 1819 a first schoolhouse was built in the parish garden, but burned down in 1823, with other houses. 1824 was the school house to be rebuilt.