Grapice
Grapice ( German Grapitz, Kashubian Grabce ) is an old Kashubian village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Potegowo ( Pottangow ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Grapice located in Pomerania, east of the county town of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in a vast plain, surrounded on all sides by farmland. Through the town performs a secondary road that Żelkowo (Wendish Silkow, 1938-45 Schwerin height) of the province road 213 and Damno ( dams ) with Potegowo ( Pottangow ) on the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28). A parallel to Lebatal in north-south trending secondary road passes one kilometers on the spot. Up to the nearest railway station Strzyzyno Słupskie on the railway line from Stargard in Pomerania to Gdańsk is 4.5 kilometers.
History
The former estate village Grapitz is its historic village form after a small village streets. It was in earlier times a fief of Rexin family. In 1523 is called a Pawell rexin to graptze. Through marriage Grapitz passed to the family von Zitzewitz, and in 1772 it was sold to Captain Kaspar Friedrich von Massow.
About 1784 Grapitz had in Barbican, four farmers, four Kossäten, a schoolmaster and the Vorwerk New Grapitz (now Polish: Grapiczki ) for a total of 22 fireplaces (households). From 1818 to 1847 Grapitz owned by the noble family Puttkamer, it took over the family Wallenius. Christoph Wallenius was the last owner of the estate before 1945 Grapitz.
Until 1945 the church was Grapitz with the village of New Grapitz district Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. It belonged to the official and the civil registry district small Gluschen ( Głuszynko ) and in the District Court area Stolp. 1925 were in Grapitz 21 houses. The municipal area was 795 hectares. In 1939, 60 households and 274 inhabitants were counted.
Towards the end of World War II Grapitz was occupied without a fight on March 9, 1945 by the Soviet Army and soon found it under Polish administration. After Poland took the village in possession. The mayor was arrested, and the villagers were expropriated and distributed in the following period. The estate kept the Soviet troops to 1950 in possession.
108 and in the GDR 25 expelled from Grapitz villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Grapitz was renamed Grapice. The village is now part of Gmina Potegowo in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). In 2010 the village had 311 inhabitants.
Development of the population
Church
Before 1945, the villagers of Grapitz were almost exclusively Protestant. The village belonged to the parish of dams (now Polish: Damno ) in the church Stolp - old town in the Province of Pomerania Ostsprengel the Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Magnus Erdmann.
Since 1945, the population of Grapice is predominantly Catholic. The parish official affiliation has remained: Grapice belongs to the parish Damno ( dams ), the ( Glowitz ) in the diocese but now belongs to the deanery Główczyce Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are assigned to the church in Główczyce, the Branch Church of the Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
In the single-stage in 1932 elementary school in Grapitz a teacher taught 50 school children. Last school Holder before 1945 was a teacher Max Geske.