Sowno, Koszalin County
Sowno ( German (old) Zowen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the municipality Sianów ( Zanow ) in the district of Koszalin ( Koszalin ).
Geographical location
Sowno located 28 kilometers west of the county town of Koszalin in Pomerania. The village is on the Province Road 206 ( Koszalin - Polanów ( Pollnow ) ) on Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) and Sowinko ( New Zowen ) to reach. There is also on a side road connection via Ratajki ( Ratteick ) to Sianów ( Zanow ) (17 km ) or above Nadbór ( Nadebahr ) to Polanów ( 13 km). By 1945, consisted of the four kilometers to station Latzig (now Polish: Laski ) Following the small railway Schlawe - Pollnow the Schlawer tracks.
Sowno is from the neighboring villages Laski and Bukowo ( (Wendish ) Buckow ) in the east, Nacław ( Natzlaff ) in the south, and Sowinko Powidz ( Peace Village ) in the west and Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) surrounded to the north.
The area of the district Sowno rises sharply to the east up to a height of 154 meters above sea level.
Place name
Sowno (Alt Zowen ) is located two kilometers north of Sowinko ( New Zowen ). The place name Zowen came to 1945 also in the Pomeranian Regenwalde. The name is probably of Slavic origin and derived from " sowa " = " owl " ( Zowen = Eulenort ). This lineage also arises from the Polish name Sowno, which also refers to the earlier lying in Regenwalde, now in the powiat Lobeski place Zowen = Sowno.
History
Old Zowen is an old, already existing since 1628 by Ramelsches fief. After that, it belonged to the family of Podewils - Krag and went in 1691 to the Glasenapp family. Since then Zowen had many different owners. From 1912 to 1945, there was then the property of Somborn family.
In addition to the 498.5 -acre manor, there were still four full Zowen farms with over 10 hectares of land and a settler point with less than 10 hectares. In addition, outside the village center existed deconstructions: Degradation 1.5 km north of the village had more than 10 acres of land. South of the forester, 1 km past the fish ponds on the road New Zowen - Kritten, there were four other deconstructions with less than 10 acres of land.
The area extent of community Alt Zowen at that time was 1328 hectares. The community of Old Zowen had two living spaces:
In the community, a total of 30 residential buildings. Last German municipality mayor was Rudolf Schulz.
On March 6, 1945 the Red Army troops marched into the village. On the same day the landowner Ortwin Somborn and the tutor was shot. After the war, the village was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. The village population was at first in place and worked under Soviet and Polish administration. All families in 1946 were reported by the Poles from the site.
Old Zowen was renamed by the Poles in Sowno. The village is now part of Gmina Sianów in powiat Koszaliński in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).
Office Zowen
Old Zowen was until 1945 the seat of the Office Zowen district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. The municipalities Peace Village (now Polish: Powidz ) Latzig ( Laski ) and New Zowen were included in the headquarters district. Last Official superintendent were Ortwin Somborn and Eberhard Schmidtsdorff.
Registry office Zowen
The communities within the jurisdiction Zowen were also united to the registry office Zowen based in Old Zowen. The recent civil registry documents from the period before 1945 are now in the registry office in Sianów ( Zanow ), which in earlier times in the State Archives Koszalin ( Koszalin ).
Church
The inhabitants of Old Zowen were predominantly Protestant Church. In the village there was a half-timbered church from the 19th century. Old Zowen formed with Kritten (now Polish: Krytno ) Peace Village ( Powidz ) and New Zowen ( Sowinko ) an independent church community, however - as well as the parish Ratteick ( Ratajki ) - a branch church in the parish Kösternitz ( Kościernica ) was. It was in the Church of Pomerania ( Koszalin ) of the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.
The congregation numbered 1940 Zowen least 1006 members. The church patronage practiced from last Rittergutsbesitzer Ortwin Somborn. Last German minister was Pastor Wilhelm thrust ring. The church register records the filial community Zowen from before 1945 are now in the State Archives Koszalin ( Koszalin ).
Today, members of the Catholic Church in Poland, the people of Sowno are prevalent. They belong to a branch church Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) in the parish Szczeglino ( Steglin ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg - Koszalin ). The evangelical church members are supervised by parish in the Diocese of Koszalin in Pomerania Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
Old Zowen had a class elementary school, which was to New Zowen along the way. Last German headmaster before 1945 was a teacher Hildebrand.