Górzyno
Górzyno ( German Gohren ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical location
Górzyno located in Pomerania, about 24 kilometers northwest of the city Lębork ( Lauenburg in Pomerania ), five kilometers south of the Łebsko ( Lebasee ), a beach of the Baltic Sea, and two kilometers northeast of the village Główczyce ( Glowitz ).
History
The manor was formerly Gohren an old feud of the Stojentin family. It was in 1684 exchanged by the Captain George Wobeser against the village Gutzmerow and has since been a fief of the Wobeser family. To 1784 there were in Gohren a Barbican, a water mill, ten farmers, seven Kossäten, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, on the field mark the Vorwerk Mohrhof, which was also called Gohrensches Vorwerk, six resettled Büdnerfamilien that Holzwärterei Wusette and a total of 32 households. In 1800, barely Kashubian is spoken in the village. The farm estate remained until 1837/39 owned by the Wobeser family. Then the estate of Nicholas von Below was acquired and subsequently remained until 1945 in the possession of the Below family. According to the known politician Nicholas von Below, who died in 1919 Gohren, Rüdiger von Below took over the estate in 1923 and Wedig von Below, who became known as a racing driver.
The south location of Gohren Vorwerk Hermannshöhe was 1912/1913 be settled by the Pomeranian Land Company. It was initially part of the Gutsbezirks Gohren and was only with the dissolution of Gutsbezirks an independent municipality.
In 1925, stood on the municipality of Gohren 67 houses. Before 1945, the community Gohren to the Official District Stojentin district Stolp, administrative region of Pomerania, Pomerania belonged. The municipal area there was next to the village Gohren the residential places Gohren mill I, II Gohren mill, Grünhagen Grunhof and Kleinhorst. The municipal area was 1,267 acres in size. 1939 counted a total of 131 households and 553 inhabitants.
Towards the end of World War II Gohren was occupied on March 9, 1945 by the Red Army and soon found it under Polish administration. In May 1945, a Polish mayor was used. This was followed in June individual Poles who seized the farms. The village was renamed Górzyno. The Good provisionally retained the Soviet power in possession, which set up a POW camp in the Gasthof Deutsches Haus. In 1946, the villagers were expelled by order of the Polish administration in groups of twenty to thirty people in the west.
After the war, 167 displaced from Gohren villagers were determined in the Federal Republic of Germany and 208 in East Germany.
In 2008 Górzyno had 332 inhabitants.
Famous people
- Nicholas von Below (1837-1919), landowner, politician and member of the Prussian House of Lords, died in Gohren