Nowy Kraków, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Nowy Kraków ( German New Krakow) is a small village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).

• 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geographical location

Nowy Kraków is located seven kilometers south of Darłowo and eighteen kilometers north- west of the county town Sławno on a side street that the provincial road 37 ( Karwice ( Karwitz ) - Darłowo ) connects with Słowino ( Schlawin ) with Jeżyce ( Old Hagen). Rail connection is via the stations Wiekowo (Alt Wiek ) and Karwice at the PKP line 202 ( Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) - Gdansk (Danzig) ).

Place name

New Krakow is in contrast to the past also in the area Schlawer town of Alt Krakow (now Polish: Stary Krakow) named, the name was formerly only " Krakow ". - In Poland, the place name Nowy Kraków comes once before in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.

History

In contrast to Old Krakow was not indicative of a village, but for a New Forstgutsbezirk before 1945 Krakow. At the western edge of the then State Forest New Krakow said nearly 5,000 acres of forest region was the Forestry Department, which had been built in the middle of the 30s of the 20th century half-timbered building. Already in 1828 it was state forester. You were under the six Revierförstereien: Buckow (municipality See Buckow - Bukowo Morskie ) Damshagen ( Domasławice ) Göritz ( Gorzyca ), New Hagen, Abbey ( Jeżyczki ) (municipality Pirbstow - Przystawy ) Schlawin ( Słowino ) and Voßhagen ( Zagórzyn ) (municipality Damshagen - Domasławice ).

North of New Krakow Old Hagen was the colony ( Kolonia Jeżyce ), which was based on the Prussian reforms of Stein and Hardenberg 's reforms. The inhabitants operated smaller farms with other gainful activities in the state forest.

Both places were with the living space Plath ( Büdnerhof ) before 1945 a part of the community Altenhagen ( Jeżyce ).

After 1945 the colony Altenhagen first received the Polish name Nowy Kraków, which then also was the Polish name Kolonia Jeżyce. Today, the village in which 25 residents are registered to say, only Nowy Kraków and belonging to the Gmina Darłowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Church

New Krakow belonged before 1945 to the evangelical parish Peter Hagen ( Pęciszewko ) in the parish of Rügenwalde in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. 1940 counted 1863 members of the congregation, and the last German clergyman was Father Franz Schroeder.

Since 1945, Nowy Kraków is part of the Catholic parish Jeżyce ( Old Hagen) in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Darłowo of the Catholic Church in Poland.

School

In the colony Altenhagen there was a separate elementary school before 1945.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Erhard Uecker man (1924-1996), German Hunting and Forestry Scientists