Gawroniec, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Gawroniec ( German Gersdorf ) is a village in Połczyn -Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ) in Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

The village is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 100 kilometers east of Szczecin and 21 kilometers southeast of Świdwin ( Schivelbein ). The region is part of the landscape of the Pomeranian Switzerland.

History

Gawroniec is an old village church, which had formerly belonged to a manor. In the district of the village, a Vorwerk and a stately manor house were located. In the 19th century the estate was owned by a branch of the Borcke family. Until the regulation of manorial and peasant relations in the early 19th century, had the jurisdiction of the village, which had at that time still belongs to the province Neumark, been in the hands of the landowner.

The village had belonged until 1945 to Pomerania. The parish was a branch of the parish of Wusterwitz.

Towards the end of World War II, the region was conquered and occupied in the spring of 1945 by the Red Army. Shortly after the war, the region was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. The German village Gersdorf was renamed Gawroniec. Soon after the immigration of Poles who urged the native German population from their homes and farms began. The German natives were driven to about 1947, citing the so-called Bierut Decrees from their village.

Development of the population

Personalities: sons and daughters of the town

  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcke (1693-1769), privy councilor and minister in Brandenburg- Prussia and Hesse -Kassel
  • Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke (1704-1747), statesman in the Prussian service, and literary translators
  • Then Otto (* 1937), German historian

Footnotes

  • Place of West Pomeranian Voivodeship
  • Place in Pomerania
  • Gmina Połczyn -Zdrój
Voivodeship (Poland) Powiat Vehicle registration plates of Poland Farther Pomerania Folwark
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