Borzęcino, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Borzęcino ( German Bornzin ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. The village is part of the rural community Dębnica Kaszubska ( Rathsdamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski.
Geographical location
Borzęcino located in Pomerania, about 17 kilometers southeast of the city of Slupsk ( Stolp )
History
The former manor Borrentzin 1527 was a fief of the Puttkamer family. In 1739 came the hinterpommersche estate village by marriage in the feudal possession of the Baer family. To 1784, the Gutdorf had together with a Vorwerk and the colony of New Borntin twenty hearths (households). The captain of the gendarmerie body Otto Heinrich Ursin von Baer (1778-1834) was build in 1832 and the manor but still sold the same year the estate. After it was temporarily in the possession of the family of Schramm and von Lewinski, acquired in 1841 Kreisdeputierte Wilhelm von Zitzewitz Bornzin. His family was until 1945 in the possession of the goods.
Before 1945 Bornzin belonged to the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania. In 1925, stood in the village of 59 residential buildings. The municipal area was 1,638 acres in size. 1939 120 households and 509 inhabitants were counted.
Towards the end of World War II Bornzin was occupied on 8 March 1945 by the Soviet Army. After the war, the village was along with all Pomerania Poland. On June 6, 1945 Poland took over the village. The Gutsbetrieb kept the Soviet Army to supply the military in possession. To this end, the Soviet government kept provisionally the majority of the German village population at the site in order to manage the estate on. Only Old, Disabled and single women with several small children were driven to 1947 in the West. In 1950 the village was placed completely under Polish administration. For the children of the families who had remained in the village, in 1950, a German -language school, primary school for general education with German mother tongue was opened, was granted at the lessons for grades 6-7. Classes 1 to 5 were taught ( German Starnitz ) in the soon opened a second German school in the neighboring village Starnice. From 1945 to 1950 no classes had been held for the German children and adolescents. 1957 lived in Borzęcino still 131 persons of German ethnicity. The majority of the German population left the village, within the agreed with Poland by the federal government under Konrad Adenauer family reunification from 1956 to 1958 the village and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. The German elementary school closed in 1958. Later on in the Federal Republic of Germany identified 273 and in the GDR 86 villagers from Bornzin.
From 1975 to 1998 Borzęcino belonged to the Province of Slupsk ( Stolp ).
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Albrecht von Zitzewitz (1848-1917), German landowner and member of the Prussian House of Lords
- Ullrich Bewersdorff (1920-2008), German painter, printmaker and university instructor