Bruskowo Wielkie

Bruskowo Wielkie ( German United Brüskow ) is a village in the municipality of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the powiat Słupski the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

  • 4.1 parish
  • 4.2 parish / parish
  • 7.1 Literature
  • 7.2 External links
  • 7.3 footnotes

Geographical location

Bruskowo Wielkie located in Pomerania, about nine kilometers north-west of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the United Brüskower Moor, which is in the southeast of a range of hills, the mountains Birkower limited. The nearest train station is located in Slupsk.

For large Brüskow Motz or stumbling arises Motze which opens at Pieszcz ( Peest ) in the Wipper.

Characteristic of the rural surroundings of the village are White Stork nests on rooftops and towers as well as isolated, rounded boulders with smooth surface, sticking out of the ground.

History

In 1536, shortly after the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania, the village Brüskow was owned by the Duke Barnim IX .. In the Prussian era United Brüskow was one of the eighteen royal villages of stumbling Office. Around 1768, there were 12 farms in the United Brüskow. In the 18th century belonged to the United Brüskow a 609 -acre Vorwerk. In 1784 there were seven farmers in the village, including the mayor, three Kossäten, eight Büdner, including the blacksmith, a schoolmaster and a minister. Until the agrarian reform in the early 19th century, the peasants and Kossäten of the village at the farm were liable for military service. After implementation of the agrarian reform in the 20s of the 19th century, the United Vorwerk Brüskow by the Prussian government in Koszalin was offered for sale.

The rural community of Great Brüskow belonged before 1945 to the district of Stolp in the administrative region of Pomerania Pomerania. The municipal area was 1,860 acres in size. On the boundaries of the municipality, there were a total of five Locations:

  • Dodow
  • Forest House Buchenhorst
  • Forest House Scharfstein
  • Friedrichsthal
  • Great Brüskow

In Dodow there were around 1800 a brickyard. In 1925 were in the United Brüskow 87 residential buildings. In 1939 154 households and 608 inhabitants were counted.

The community had its own mayor, a registry office, a primary school and a Protestant minister, who resided in the rectory. Great Brüskow was the residence of the independent regional midwife, who had been assigned by the management of the county Stolp eleven villages to care. The population lived mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry, to a lesser extent of forestry. In the 19th century the United Brüskow and its neighboring villages were known for their cultivation of flax. In the United Brüskow there was a Viehhandlung, a brickyard, a windmill (owner - family: Jenz ), a branch of rural savings and Darlehnskasse EOOD, several retail shops, two inns and usual standards for a rural community craft and service companies. In the United Brüskower moor peat was cut and dried; it was used as fuel.

Towards the end of World War II United Brüskow was captured without a fight by the Red Army on 8 March 1945. Initially, there were numerous attacks against the village population. On March 30, 1945, the Brüskower had to temporarily leave their village because it was within the Soviet containment area on the Baltic Sea. They avoided by Birkow and other neighboring places. In the summer of 1945, a Soviet headquarters was set up in the United Brüskow, who was also in Birkow. The new commander was to cultivate the fields and permitted the holding of religious services. As the Soviet commander and his soldiers to Great Massowitz in the district of Lauenburg i Pom. withdrew, took over Poland the place. The German population was forced out of their homes, and their property was confiscated. It began the expulsion. On August 24, 1946 in the morning at 5 Clock part of villagers was in a surprise action brought in the hall of the inn Strauss and deported the next day in a westerly direction from Stolp from the train station. Other transports followed. 188 expelled from United Brüskow villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 186 in East Germany.

Between 1975 and 1998 Bruskowo Wielkie belonged to the Province Slupsk.

Development of the population

District United Brüskow

Before 1945, the United Brüskow formed with the communities Birkow ( Bierkowo ) Grünhagen ( Wierzbięcin ), Small Brüskow ( Bruskowo Małe ) Schwolow ( Swołowo ) and Stone Forest ( Krzemienica ) the district of the Office United Brüskow in the district of Stolp in the administrative region of Pomerania of the Prussian province of Pomerania. The registry office was also located in United Brüskow. Gendarmerie district was small Strellin ( Strzelinko ) and district court area Stolp ( Slupsk ).

Church

Parish Church

The Church in Great Brüskow is mentioned in a document for the first time in 1490. But had to give way to a new building in 1863, the old church. In the middle window of the choir, a small coat of arms image with signature was introduced, which contained the full title of Duke Ernst Bogislaw of Croy. One of the three bells of the church, cast in 1594, escaped the melting down for ammunition purposes during the Second World War: they were found on a bell cemetery and brought them in 1963 after Frixheim Rommerskirchen, where she is ringing ever since.

In 1945 the previously Protestant church was confiscated by the Catholic Church. On November 3, 1945 it was rededicated and named Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ( " Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ").

Parish / parish

By 1945 the population of the United Brüskow predominantly Protestant denomination was. The place was and is the parish seat, before 1945 the center of the parish United Brüskow with the parish United Brüskow ( and the parishioners places Dodow (now Polish: Dodowo ), Friedrich Thal, Grünhagen ( Wierzbięcin ) and small Brüskow ( Bruskowo Małe )) and the branch church community Schwolow ( Swołowo ) ( with the forester Scharfstein ( Kolonia Starkowo ) and parts of stone Forest ( Krzemienica ) ). 1586 should be the " filia " Schwolow be separated, but remained connected to the " mater " Great Brüskow.

The parish United Brüskow counted 1940 1238 church members. It belonged to the church Stolp county -level city in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Since 1945, the people of United Brüskow are almost all Catholic denomination. On June 1, 1951 Bruskowo Wielkie seat of a parish to which today the Branch communities Bierkowo ( Birkow ) and Swołowo ( Schwolow ) was include a total of 2338 members of the congregation. Masses can also be found in Galęzinowo (overflow) and Krzemienica place ( Stone Forest ). The parish is part of the Dean's Office Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland.

The few Christians evangelical denomination in Bruskowo Wielkie will now be served by the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

A school is mentioned in Great Brüskow for the first time in 1664. Probably at that time gave the pastor teaching yourself how the longer time is expressly testified. First schoolmaster was 1711 inhabitants Hans Kneip.

In 1932 the three-stage two elementary school teachers taught in three classes 76 school children.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter Lawrence Wockenfuß (1675-1721), German composer and cantor

References

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