Oskowo

Oskowo ( German Wutzkow, Kashubian Òskowò ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Cewice ( Zewitz ) in the powiat Leborski ( Lauenburg ( Pommern ) ).

• 4.1 Evangelical Church
• 4.2 Roman Catholic Church

Geographical location u

Oskowo located in Pomerania, in the valley of Bukovina ( Buckowin ) in an alternating field and woodland. The Jezioro Oskowo ( Wutzkower lake ) is enclosed by the forest.

Place name

In 1310 the place is called in the border prescriptions of the Teutonic Knights Ozkowe, 1313 and 1379 as Wozkowe as wózków. 1717 will see the word Wutzkow.

History

The historic village of shape after Wutzkow is a small village streets. A border letter from 1313 drew the line to the religious state between Wutzkow and Schimmerwitz (now Polish Siemirowice ), where Wutzkow remained at Brandenburg, later Pomeranian page.

Wutzkow was always on a major thoroughfare, so that from the southeast trade people came here, bartered precious on the Baltic amber or furs for weapons, jewelry and coins. Later, the place was due to the great military and postal road between Hanseatic trading centers of the North and Baltic Seas.

In 1621 Wutzkow was a Lietz cal fief. 1710 went to the Münchows and 1766 the Somnitz.

Under the Great Elector the postal route was re-organized and built in Wutzkow a border post office on the way to West Prussia. Even King Frederick William had built " royal house" for his own use in his travels to East Prussia. Often he could see on his travels here the population. The " Royal House " in 1780, sold to the local postmaster.

In the village pitcher returned on June 9, 1773, a Berlin-based artist Daniel Chodowiecke, where he met a butcher 's apprentice who was on his way to St. Petersburg. In the picture " The evening in Wutzkow " this meeting is held in the company of farmers and the host.

In 1784, named for Wutzkow: 1 Vorwerk, 1 water mill, 3 peasants, 3 Kossäten, 1 pitcher, 1 tank and 1 schoolmaster at a total of 22 hearths (households). After changing owners, the village came in 1906 in Prussian hands. 1938 was 480 hectares domain. 1939 lived in Wutzkow 278 inhabitants in 59 households.

By 1945 Wutzkow belonged to the district of Stolp, in its extreme south-east corner it was. Thus, it was assigned to the government district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. At the same time the place was in the official and the civil registry district Bochowke (1938-1945 Hohe Linde, today Polish: Bochówko ) incorporated. In Wutzkow there was a police station, the district court was in Lauenburg ( Pommern ).

On March 8, 1945, the residents of Wustrow took the flight from the approaching Red Army. Some made ​​their way to Gdynia ( Gdynia then called, today Polish: Gdynia ), others were killed. The majority, however, was caught by the Russians in Linde in Lauenburg. On March 9, the place was busy ( only one East Prussian family had stayed there ). Later, take possession of the village of Poland and deported the entire German population between November 1946 and October 1947. Wutzkow was from Oskowo which is a district of Gmina Cewice in powiat Leborski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship today.

Local structure to 1945

Prior to 1945, belonged to the municipality Wutzkow the villages: Old Friedrichswalde, New Friedrichswalde, Wutzkow Station, Wutzkow Forest House and Wutzkow - Waldarbeitergehöft.

Church

Evangelical Church

Before 1945, the population was predominantly Protestant. Wutzkow was a total of 12 neighboring villages in the parish Mickrow (now Polish: Mikorowo ) the parish, which since 1871 Church Stolp -Altstadt, before the Church Circle Old Kolziglow, the Church of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union was ( based in Szczecin ). 1940 was one of the parish church members in 2499. Last German clergyman before 1945 was pastor Gustav Öhrn.

Protestant church members now belong to the parish Stolp of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland, which in closer Lębork ( Lauenburg ( Pommern ) ) has a place of worship.

Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic inhabitants belonged until 1945 to the parish of Stolp.

Today, the population is almost exclusively Catholic and belongs to - now Catholic - parish Mikorowo ( Mickrow ), which listened to the Dean's Office Łupawa ( Lupow ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland.

School

In the einklassigen in 1932 primary school one teacher taught 67 children. The children from Bochowke (1938-1945 High Linde, Polish: Bochówko ) and Lessaken ( Lesiaki ) went to Wutzkow to school. Last German teacher was Paul Völkner.

Traffic

Through the village the province road leads 212 Kamionka ( Steinberg ) via Bytów ( Buetow ) to Osowo Leborskie ( Wussow ), 7 kilometers south of Lębork ( Lauenburg ( Pommern ) ), in the section by Oskowo on the route of the former German Empire Road 158 ( Berlin -Lauenburg ( Pommern ) ) runs.

A train ride there was from 1902, but since 1945 no longer exists after the former railway line Lauenburg - Buetow decommissioned and has been largely dismantled.