Obłęże
Obłęże ( German Woblanse ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Kępice ( hammer mill ).
Geographical location
Obłęże located in Pomerania, approximately 25 kilometers south-southwest of the city of Slupsk ( Stolp ) and 20 miles southeast of downtown Sławno ( Schlawe ).
History
The former manor Woblanse was one of the oldest fief of Massow family who here had a parent company. The Massows Woblanse to be called in the 18th century, among those families who presented a scholarship to attend an academy or an academic high school are available from their investment income gifted students. 1925 Woblanse had a total of 50 houses, and there were 122 households and 556 inhabitants counted. The village belonged until 1945 to the district Rummelsburg in the administrative region of Pomerania Pomerania. At the community Woblanse and the living space Woblanser belonged sheep. The municipal area was 16.9 km ².
Towards the end of World War II, the inhabitants fled on March 5, 1945 the first front of the advancing Soviet army. The trek, however, was run over in Great Guard of the Red Army and had to turn back. There were attacks against the villagers. Woblanse itself was on 6/7 March 1945 have been taken without significant fighting of the Soviet Army. After returning to their village, the population was exposed again to attacks. After 1945 Woblanse was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. A Polish government office was set up in the village until the early summer of 1946. The estate retained the Soviet Army until 1957 in possession. The Polish administration brought for the inhabitants a certain improvement of living conditions; Polish Chief Administrator is described as " relatively humane". The Polish authorities expelled by the end of 1947, the German population from the village, with the exception of three or four families who were evacuated later.
Woblanse received the Polish name Obłęże. In 2008 lived in the village of 322 inhabitants.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Kaspar Otto von Massow (1665-1736), a Prussian civil servant and minister of war.