Gmina Choczewo
Choczewo ( German Chottschow, 1938-1945 Gotendorf, Kashubian Choczewo ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the powiat Wejherowski ( Neustadt in West Prussia ).
The Gmina Choczewo is a rural community, which has its headquarters in Choczewo.
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 Municipality arrangement
- 3.3 traffic 3.3.1 roads
- 3.3.2 rails
- 4.1 External links
- 4.2 footnotes
Geographical Location and Transport
Choczewo on Jezioro Choczewskie ( Chottschower or Gotendorfer Lake ) is located in Eastern Pomerania, about ten kilometers from the Baltic Sea coast in the province road 213 Celbowo ( Celbau ) about Krokowa ( Krockow ) with Wicko ( Vietzig ) Główczyce ( Glowitz ) and Slupsk ( Stolp ) connects.
The former county town Lębork ( Lauenburg in Pommern, 26 km) and the present county seat Wejherowo ( Neustadt in West Prussia, 28 km ) can be reached directly in each case via a good side roads.
A rail link no longer exists since 2004.
Village Choczewo ( Chottschow )
History
In 1910 (municipality and Gutsbezirk ) were 492 inhabitants registered in Chottschow. Their number increased to 1933 to 569 in 1939 and amounted to 599
By 1945 Chottschow belonged ( 1938-45 Gotendorf ) to the district of Lauenburg i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. With the communities United Lüblow (now Polish Lublewo ) Kerschkow ( Kierzkowo ), Small Lüblow ( Lublewko ), Ster Benin ( Starbienino ) and Wittenberg ( Białogóra ) the place in the administrative district of the municipality Ossecken ( Osieki Leborskie ) was incorporated, also belonged to the civil registry district Ossecken, but for the district court area Lauenburg ( Lębork ).
Since 1945, the Choczewo is then called the village a district of the same name Gmina belongs to the powiat Wejherowski within the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Gdansk voivodship ). In the village now live 1310 inhabitants.
Church
Prior to 1945, was the majority of the population of Chotttschow Protestant denomination. The village did not have its own house of worship. Parish seat was rather Ossecken (now Polish Osieki Leborskie ), desse parish was one of the largest church in Lauenburg county in Pomerania ( Lębork ) in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. In 1940 the parish Ossecken counted 3,321 church members.
Since 1945, live in Choczewo almost exclusively Catholic church members. Choczewo now forms a separate parish ( Parafia MB Królowej Polski - Parish of Our Lady, Queen of Poland ) in the Office of the Dean Gniewino ( Gnewin ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are the Parish Office in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland assigned, which maintains a worship outstation in Lębork.
Gmina Choczewo
General
The Gmina Choczewo is a rural community. It covers an area of 183.23 km ², which corresponds to 14.29 % of the total area of the powiat Wejherowski. In the municipality of 5,551 inhabitants, about 25 % of them in the village Choczewo.
The northern boundary of the municipality of Gmina is the Baltic Sea coast with its distinctive lighthouse Stilo ( Stilo Latarnia Morska ). Neighboring municipalities are:
- In Wejherowski powiat (district Neustadt in West Prussia ): Gniewino ( Gnewin ) and Łęczyce ( Lanz )
- In Pucki powiat ( county Puck ): Krokowa ( Krockow ), and
- In powiat Leborski ( Lauenburg county in Pomerania ): Leba ( Leba ) Nowa Wies Zund Lęborska ( Neuendorf ).
Community structure
To Gmina Choczewo includes 41 villages, 14 hamlets ( " Schulz offices " ) are associated with:
- Districts:
- Borkowo Leborski ( Borkow )
- Choczewko ( until 1937 Chottschewko, 1938-45 Goths )
- Choczewo ( until 1937 Chottschow, 1938-45 Gotendorf )
- Ciekocino ( Zackenzin )
- Gościęcino ( Gossentin )
- Jackowo ( Jatzkow )
- Kierzkowo ( Kerschkow )
- Kopalin ( Koppalin )
- Łętowo ( Lantow )
- Sasino ( Sassin )
- Słajkowo ( Staikow )
- Słajczewo ( Schlaischow )
- Starbienino ( Rochester Benin)
- Zwartówko (small Schwartow )
- Other localities: Biebrowo ( Bebbrow ) Borkow Małe (small Borkow ) Brachówko, Cegielnia, Ciekocinko, Gardkowice ( Gartkewitz ) Jabłonowice ( Julienhof ) Karczemka Gardowska ( Johanneshof ) Karczemka Kierzkowska ( Karczemka ) Kierzkowo Małe (small Kerschkow ) Krzesiniec ( Bellealliancestraße ), Kurowo ( Kurow ), Łętówko ( Lantow lake ), Lubiatowo ( Lübtow ) Lublewko (small Lüblow ) Lublewo Leborskie ( Lüblow ) Osetnik ( Stilo ), Osieki Leborskie ( Ossecken ) Przebędowo ( Prebendow ) Przebędówko, Sasinko ( New Sassin ) Sasino - Kolonia ( Sassin, colony), Szklana Huta ( Glashütte ), Słajszewko, Żelazna ( until 1937 Zelasen, 1938-45 Hohenwald home ), Zwarcienko ( Schwartower Waldhof ) and Zwartowo ( Schwartow ).
Traffic
The Gmina Choczewo is primarily through the province road 213 ( Celbowo ( Celbau ) - Slupsk ( Stolp ) ), but also opened up numerous side streets, where the latter are not all developed especially near the coast, however.
Rails
In 2001 (passenger ) and 2004 ( freight) the Gmina Choczewo was disconnected from the Polish railway network. In 1905 was Chottschow to the end point of a range of newly built narrow gauge railway Neustadt- Prüssau of Neustadt in West Prussia (now Polish Wejherowo ) about Prüssau ( Prusewo ). This line was continued in 1910 by the local railway Chottschow - Garzigar of Chottschow until after Garzigar ( Garczegorze ) on the railway line Lauenburg - Leba.
The present territory of the gmina Choszewo was tied with at least nine railway stations on this narrow-gauge railway line: Lüblow ( Lublewo Leborskie ) Ossecken ( Osieki Leborskie ) Chottschow ( Choczewo ), Goths ( Choczewko ) Kurow ( Kurowo ) Prebendow ( Przebędowo ) Schwartow ( Zwartowo ), Small Schwartow ( Zwartówko ) and Gossentin ( Gościęcino ).
Between 1919 and 1939 the railway line ( 1939-45 Gap, Polish Zamostne ) and the Pomeranian instincts ( Rybno ) was interrupted by the Polish corridor between the West Prussian Gohra. In 2004, the entire line was closed by the Polish State Railways.