Dolice, Gmina Dobrzany
Dolice ( German Konstantin Opel ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the gmina Dobrzany (Jacob Hagen) in Stargardzki powiat ( county Stargard in Pomerania ).
Geographical location
Dolice on Jezioro Dolice ( Dölitzsee ) located in the southern part of the Inski Landscape Park ( nature reserve Nörenberg ) on a side street that Dobrzany (Jacob Hagen, 4 km) with Bytowo ( Butow, 6 km) and Sulibór (large mirror, 8 km, at the province road 151 Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) - Gorzow Wielkopolski ( Landsberg ad Warta ) ) connects. The nearest train station is Ognica ( Stolzenhagen, 5 km ) to the state railway line 403 Ulikowo ( Wulkow ) - Pila ( Pila ).
Neighboring locations are: Grabnica ( Gräbnitzfelde ) in the north, Krzemień ( Kremmin ) in the east, Bytowo ( Butow ) in the southeast, Ognica ( Stolzenhagen ) in the southwest and Dobrzany in the West.
Place name
The place name comes Dolice in Poland twice before: 30 km to the southeast lies - also in the powiat Stargardzki - the place Dolice ( Dölitz, Pomerania ), who is also the seat of the municipality of the same country.
The question of the German naming is answered differently. So the place after the colonists first name Konstantin, may be named, who signed a petition to the father of his country to name the village, which Frederick the Great approved.
More likely, however, is the statement of Pansiner Pastor Justus Sage tree in his book Laurel cypress tree of Jacob Hagen Synody of 1789: after the place has been named after the Privy Councillor Catherine Konstantia of Blumenthal born Woedtke that for themselves as helpful patroness arms had made a name in the country.
In any case, the naming of the place meant that one of its inhabitants " Turks" called around jokingly.
History
Konstantin Opel was founded in 1753 as colonists village. From this period date back several settlement houses (partly in timber ) that are spared in the great fire on 29 October 1920. The foundation of the town was due to a regulation of Frederick the Great on 12 September 1753. In the colony twelve Bauer bodies were set up as well as one schoolmaster and Büdnerstelle. As a craft business you built a forge. The land and the herdsman houses had 17 hearths.
By 1945, Konstantin Opel belonged to the official and the civil registry district Temnick. District court area was Jacob Hagen ( Dobrzany ). It was in the district of Pomerania in the district of Stettin Prussian province of Pomerania.
In 1910 the city counted 157 inhabitants, in 1939 there were only 129 living in 35 households. Last German mayor was Emil Schwandt.
Since 1945, the now -called Dolice place belongs to the powiat Stargardzki in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stettin) and is a district of Gmina Dobrzany.
Church
In Constantinople Opel church had been built before 1760, which was until 1945 Protestant church. The village was in the parish Filialort Kremmin (now Polish: Krzemień ), in which the branch communities Temnick ( Ciemnik ) and Butow ( Bytowo ) were the parish.
116 Of the 1302 members of the congregation of the parish in 1940 belonged to the parish of Constantine Opel. She was incorporated into the Church of the Old Prussian Union in the parish of Jacob Hagen ( Dobrzany ) Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania. Last German minister was Pastor Rudolf Schulze.
After 1945, the church was a Catholic church, which now belongs to the parish in Dobrzany and in the deanery Suchan ( Zachan ) is incorporated in the Archdiocese of Szczecin - Pomerania.
Royal visit to the " dog Turkey "
On a sightseeing tour of his country was King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in the Province of Pomerania and also defined by Konstantin Opel. While the homage by the population only perceived in other places in passing, he was in Constantinople Opel - a complete surprise to the village mayor and all the inhabitants - continue.
The monarch asked the bailiff, as his beautiful decorated place would mean. " Konstantin Opel, keep graces, Your Majesty ," he answered, still completely surprised by the title. The king was curious. The great Turkish city reminding the king asked the - also perplexed - pastor who came up with a merry crowd of children singing, whether here for now lived all nations.
The long wait to be let answer the spiritual leaders do not even waiting, he asked the clerk for a minaret in the town. This had not even heard the word before and probably looked the monarch of his hand questioningly.
Finally, the king asked, clearly amused at the village mayor, whether you have perhaps introduced here with the place name and the polygamy and whether he would have to reckon with an encounter of an angry Sultan here. Now at last the mayor understood him correctly, because his dog was called " Sultan ". "No, Your Majesty, de Sultoan liggt UPPM measurement un schlöppt ".
King and Accompanying command could not resist longer laughing. Although the Konstantinopolitaner did not know why, but as a precaution they laughed heartily with. From that time the village was the " dog of Turkey."