Gardna Wielka
Gardna Wielka ( German Great Guard, the Kashubian Garno, also Wiôlgô Garno ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gmina Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
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Geographical location
Gardna Wielka located in Eastern Pomerania on the southern shore of Lake Garder, one of the largest lakes beach in Pomerania. The ridge on which the village is situated, is Zwischenendmoräne which projects directly up to the lake. Until after Smołdzino, the community center, there are five kilometers, and the county seat Slupsk ( Stolp ) is 25 kilometers away.
History
Great Guard emerged from the villages Guard and Kerske (or Kierske ). The western part of the village was called Guard, the eastern Kerske. Guard, formerly Gardna, an old village church is mentioned in a document from the year 1284, which is confirmed with the Duke Mestwin II the donations of his father Swantopolk II for the St. Stanislaus Church Guard.
To 1784 there were in Kirchdorf United Garde a preacher, an organist, a few fishermen and craftsmen and day laborers. Together with Kerske had the village of 70 inhabitants living in 48 households. The inhabitants were originally largely Kashubian. Until 1827 was still preached in Kashubian and taught and only gradually, the transition was to the German language. In 1905, however, there was no one, the Kashubian language. The small fishing village had become completely German.
In 1925, Great Garde counted 1,295 residents living in 243 houses. The population was 1933, 1290 and rose to 1939 in 1309.
By 1945 Great Guard belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative region of Pomerania Pomerania. The local court was in Stolp.
Towards the end of World War II Great Guard was occupied on March 9, 1945 by the Red Army. After the region was made after the war, together with all Pomerania under Polish administration, came in September 1945, Poland to Great Guard and drove the Germans out of their homes. The possession of the villagers was seized by the Poles. The villagers were then in several stages, which lasted until 1947, expelled from Great Guard.
372 displaced from Great Guard villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 617 in East Germany.
Since 1945, under Polish administration, the place was until 1954 an independent community and has been a district of the rural community Smołdzino in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). Here now is 800 people.
Church
Village Church
The neo-Gothic, today Nawiedzenia NMP -called church dates from the 15th century and stands on the site of an older temple from the 13th century. In the 17th century, and in 1842 it was rebuilt.
Parish
Until 1945, most of the population Protestant denomination. Great Guard was Kirchdorf and vicarage for the parish Gambin. To the parish villages were also Dominke ( Dominek ), Small Guard ( Gardna Mała ) Kuhnhof ( Komnino ) Lankwitz ( Łękwica ), Rotten ( Retowo ) Stohentin ( Stojcino ), Wendish Buckow ( 1939-45 Buchstein, Polish: Bukowa ) Wittbeck ( Czysta ), Wittstock ( Wysoka ) and Wusseken ( Osieki Słupskie ).
The Rectory in Great Guard burned twice from: 1692 and on November 27, 1772 Every time were valuable church records and documents lost..
The parish church belonged to the United Garde Stolp -Altstadt before 1945 Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. 1940 counted 2,703 church members.
Since 1945 Gardna Wielka is almost exclusively Catholic. The village is again vicarage, only incorporated in the deanery in the diocese Główczyce Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) receive from which Gardna Wielka as a separate service location (chapel at ul Pomorska 2). It belongs to the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
Pastor until 1945
Since the Reformation, and until the end of World War II officiated in Great Guard 19 Protestant clergymen:
Traffic
Gardna Wielka can be reached on a side road that branches off at Lubuczewo ( Lüpzow ) north of Slupsk of the province road 203 and leads up to Smołdzino. A rail connection exists since 1945, not since the light railway line ( Stolp ) fork (now Polish: Komnino ) Schmolsin - be had to give up - with stops in Great Guard.