Dźwirzyno
Dźwirzyno ( German Dźwirzyno ) is a village on the Baltic coast in Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg) in Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community in Kolobrzeg powiat Kołobrzeski.
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Geographical location
Dźwirzyno located behind the dunes of the Baltic Sea beach at the lake Kamper (Polish Resko Przymorskie ) in Pomerania between Mrzeżyno ( Treptower Deep ) to the west, the east and Kolberg Głowaczewo ( Papenhagen ) in the south. Kolberg is ten kilometers away, Papenhagen three kilometers.
History
The Kamper lake, where the small fishing and farming village is located, is a four- kilometer-long and two and a half kilometer wide lake with an outflow to the sea, the ferry was called. This outflow was until the second half of the 15th century into the only mouth of the Rega. This was until the mid-15th century, the seaport of the city of Treptow Rega Warnemünde at the Rega.
After the fairway Rega mouth of Kolberger citizens had been rendered useless by the sinking of ships for maritime traffic, gave Duke Erich II, 1464 the city of Treptow approval, further west, at Treptower Deep to build a new seaport and for this purpose to be able to redirect the Rega. It was dug a channel between the Rega and the new port; Since then, the Rega has two estuaries. 1499 agreed the City Council of Treptow and the abbot of the monastery Belbuck, Treptow and the completed new port a paved land, the hooves dam to connect with each other. The old seaport of Dźwirzyno lost its importance and sanded.
In the 18th century the inhabitants of Dźwirzyno lived mainly from fishing and peat cutting. 1784 there were 14 on-site fishing, nine Büdner, a schoolmaster and 26 hearths (households). Around the year 1864 there were in Deep including the school building 29 houses in which 32 families in about 200 people lived. The village was the parish in the Church of Langenhagen.
The village was known a century ago as a seaside resort and still retains some hotels and pensions. During the summer months there every year regularly lodged about 500 who had traveled bathers.
1907, the so-called Schill oak was planted in Dźwirzyno. You should remember the successful escape of Ferdinand Schill during the siege of Kolberg in 1807 by the French, as Schill at the ferry despite being seriously wounded managed to escape.
In the spring of 1945, the region was occupied by the Red Army and subsequently placed under Polish administration. The German population was expelled.