Åšciegnica

Ściegnica ( German name Ziegnitz ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Kobylnica ( Kublitz ) in the district of Slupsk ( Stolp ).

Geographical location

The former Guts and farming village Ściegnica is eleven kilometers south-east of Sławno ( Schlawe ) on a side road that branches off between Tychowo ( (Wendish ) Tychow ) and Korzybie ( Zollbrueck ) from the province road 209 to the northeast. Nearest rail connection is via the station Wrząca Pomorska ( Franzen ) to the state railway line No 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

Neighboring towns of Ściegnica are: Tychowo ( (Wendish ) Tychow ) to the west, Bzowo ( Besow ) in the north, Wrząca ( Franzen ) in the east and Korzybie ( Zollbrueck ) and Żukowo ( Suckow ) in the south.

The southern district border is the Wieprza ( Wipper ). The little river Ściegnica ( mill creek ) comes from Wrząca and flows around the village Ściegnica from the west, before it then opens in Sławno in the Wieprza.

History

Ziegnitz (formerly also Zignitz ) is mentioned in a Lehnsbrief from December 15, 1529 as of Boehnsches fiefs which have possessed their forefathers and fathers. Until 1753 there was Ziegnitz of two parts, of which the smaller fief Besow ( Bzowo ) belonged, but which was also owned by the family of Boehn. To 1684 Jürgen Anton von Kameke has had rights to Ziegnitz. 1907 buys Bonin family of the estate and is last owner before 1945.

1784 the place has 1 Vorwerk, 1 water mill, 7 farmers, 3 Kossäten, 1 school master and one wrought with a total of 23 hearths ( households ), also a fishing lake and four ponds.

1818 lived 205 inhabitants in Ziegnitz, the number rose to 1885 to 346 in 1939 and was still 294

By 1945 Ziegnitz belonged to the district of Besow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Civil ceremony the place was also associated with Besow, and also belonged to the district court district Schlawe.

On 7 March 1945, the Red Army occupied the village. As a result of the war comes Ziegnitz to Poland and is as Ściegnica today a district of Gmina Kobylnica powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).

Local structure before 1945

Before 1945, the community Ziegnitz counted five residential places or localities:

Church

Before 1945, the population was predominantly Protestant denomination in Ziegnitz. The place was in the parish of Great Schlönwitz ( Słonowice ) the parish, which belonged to the church Schlawe in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Since 1945, the inhabitants of Ściegnica almost exclusively Catholic denomination. The village still belongs to the - admittedly now Catholic - parish Słonowice in today's deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are the parish Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland assigned.

School

Before 1945 Ziegnitz had a class elementary school in its own building with a teacher's apartment. Last headmaster was a teacher Gerhard Tews.