Gać, Gmina Słupsk

Gać ( German name Gatz ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the district of Slupsk.

Geographical Location and Transport

Gać located in Pomerania, immediately on the south bank of the Moszczeniczka ( Motz ). The place is of Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) along Route 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) to reach Gdansk - Szczecin in four kilometers. Sycewice is also the nearest railway station on the national railway line No 202 Danzig- Stargard ( Pomerania ).

Neighboring communities of Gać are: in the west Pałowo (Alt Paalow ) and Pieszcz ( Peest ) - both located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship - in the north Swołowo ( Schwolow ), to the east Redęcin ( Reddentin ) and in the south Sycewice.

History

The historic village form by Gatz is a small village streets. Already from prehistoric times comes the castle wall in the Gatzer mill in Motztal. 1463 was the site owned by the family von Below that it has owned a total of 408 years. Built in the late 14th century manor house was a three-sided water castle, built at the top of the half-timbered building.

In 1772, soil improvement is due to royal - Prussian special funds made ​​and settled new farmers. Around 1780 the village came from the county Schlawe i Pom. in the county Stolp. At the time, the place had a Barbican, a water mill, a lime kiln and a brick, three farmers, two half farmers, three Kossäten, a forge and a schoolhouse.

1871 acquired Wilhelm von Zitzewitz on Zitzewitz by Gatz and purchase a share of Nitzlin (now Polish: Nosalin ) Captain Valerian von Below. 1925 was the possession of his son Heinrich von Zitzewitz, from him to his son Wilhelm von Zitzewitz, the last Lord on Zitzewitz.

Towards the end of World War II Gatz was occupied on 7 March 1945 by Russian troops and asked after the war, together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. There was looting and other abuses against the villagers. In the village invaded Poland seized homes and farms. Gatz was renamed Gać. In the following period the entire native village population was expelled by the Poles.

123 expelled from Gatz villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 95 in the GDR.

The village is now a part of Gmina Slupsk in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).

Development of the population

In the village -born personalities

• Gustav von Below (1790-1843), influenced by pietism religious sectarians, forerunner of Pentecostalism

Local structure to 1945

Prior to 1945, belonged to the municipality Gatz four villages and Places:

District Gatz

Before 1945, the community Gatz formed together with the community Zitzewitz the District Gatz in the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. Gatz was also the location of the registry office, while the gendarmerie area Kublitz ( Kobylnica ) and the district court district Stolp was.

Church

Before 1945, Gatz was predominantly Protestant. The village belonged to Birkow ( Bierkowo ) Reddentin ( Redęcin ), Zitzewitz ( Sycewice ) and Reblin ( Reblino ) Parish Symbow ( Zebowo ). It was in the church Stolp county -level city in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Since 1945 Gać is almost exclusively Catholic. The place now belongs to the parish Sycewice the Dean Zachód Slupsk ( Stolp -West) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The few evangelical church members are incorporated into the parish of the Cross parish in the Diocese of Slupsk Pomerania Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

1809 was built in Gatz a schoolhouse. In 1932 the school was one stage and had a class, a teacher and 53 school children.