Drzonowo Białogardzkie

Drzonowo Białogardzkie ( German Drenow, Belgard ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the municipality Tychowo ( Tychowo ) in a circle Białogard ( Belgard ).

Geographical Location

Drzonowo Białogardzkie located in Pomerania, 27 kilometers southeast of the county town Białogard and six kilometers southeast of Tychowo on a side road that leads from Tychowo about Nosibąday (nose band ) to Grzmiąca ( Gramenz ). The nearest train stations are the three kilometers away Wielanowo ( Villnow ) or Tychowo at the track Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg) - Białogard - Szczecinek ( Pommern ) - Pila ( Pila ) - Poznań ( Posen). Drzonowo Białogardzkie border town is situated to the circle Szczecinek and at an altitude of 95 meters above sea level.

Place name

The ending- ow indicated at Drenow indicate Wendish origin. The name means translated into German as much as "Wood Village".

Ortskunde

After the First World War was discovered in Drenow some early Germanic urn. Since 1482 the city with the names of those connected by Kleist. In 1928 Drenow was Zarnekow (now Polish: Czarnkowo ) merged to rural community Drenow.

According to the census of May 1939, the municipality covers an area of ​​1768.7 hectares with 263 inhabitants in 71 households. Of them, 220 were working in agriculture and forestry.

On the manor at that time a large, Red Holstein herd-book Herd was held. Main cash crops were barley, rye, red clover, lupine and potatoes. The latter were processed in the local distillery. The milk producers delivered their products to the dairy in Tychowo ( Tychowo ).

Last German mayor before 1945 was the estate manager nest. Drenow was in the gendarmerie district Tychowo ( Tychowo ) and belonged to the district court Belgard.

In addition, the municipality Drenow was assigned to the Office and the civil registry district Tychowo. Last official overseer was Karl Reinke, and the registry office was Walter Treichel ago.

On March 3, 1945, about the end of World War II, the entire population Drenower went before the approaching Soviet troops to trek towards Kolberg ( Kolobrzeg ). But already in Fritzow ( Wrzosowo ) joined the convoy of Soviet troops together. Many Drenower were kidnapped, the others went back home, where now also Soviet troops had taken quarters. In June 1945, the Poles took over the administration of the town. The last Germans were expelled from the region in the spring of 1946 due to the so-called Bierut Decrees.

Drenow was a district of Gmina Tychowo in powiat Białogardzki under the name Drzonowo Białogardzkie.

Church

Drenow did not own church. Parish seat was in Neustettinschen ( Szczeninek ), this noseband ( Nosibądy ), in the parish Drenow and the filial community Kowalk ( Kowalki ) was the parish until 1945.

The parish nose band belonged to the Church of the Church Province of Pomerania Belgard county in the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union. In 1940 the parish was one of 1300 members of the congregation. Last German minister, Karl -Heinrich Reimer.

Today Drzonowo Białogardzkie belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church.

School

In the einklassigen elementary school teaching in 1928 teacher Emil Doebert ten girls and 15 boys. He was the last German school holder.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the town

• Primislaff Ulrich von Kleist (1711-1781), a Prussian officer, last commander of Kolberg and Major General
• Bernhard von Kleist (1843-1929), squire to Drenow, member of the Prussian House of Deputies