Gwiazdowo, SÅ‚awno County
Gwiazdowo ( German Quäsdow, and 1928 United Quäsdow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Sławno ( Schlawe ) in Slawienski powiat ( county Sławno ).
Geographical location
The farming village Gwiazdowo is located seven kilometers south-east of Sławno on the border between the West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Pomeranian (former border between the counties Schlawe and Rummelsburg ). From the province road 205 ( direction Bobolice ( Bublitz ) ) branches in Pomiłowo ( Marienthal ) a side road Łętowo ( Lantow ) from, on which is reached after a few kilometers Gwiazdowo. The place is a railway station on the PKP line # 418 of Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) about Sławno after Korzybie ( Zollbrueck ). The station is about two kilometers from the edge of the Valley of Wieprza ( Wipper ).
Gwiazdowo is to drop to about 20 meters in a slight depression on the north- south running ridge 60 meters above sea level. Whose wooded slopes west to the glacial valley of the Rakówka ( Krebsbach ) and north to the glacial valley of the Wieprza.
Neighboring towns of Gwiazdowo are: in the west Kwasowo ( Quatzow ), in the north beyond the Wieprza Tychowo ( (Wendish ) Tychow ), to the east and south Żukowo ( Suckow ) with Brzescie (Hohenzollern village) and Dąbrowiec ( Bornemannshof ).
Place name
The term is used Quäsdow unchanged for centuries. It should be Wendish origin. Since the Middle Ages ( a district of Quäsdow to 1945) was between big and small Quäsdow distinguished. The community name Quäsdow for large Quäsdow was not introduced until 1928.
The Polish naming takes on the word gwiazda = star reference. The place name comes Gwiazdowo in Poland to three times.
History
Similar to the neighboring communities Lantow (now Polish Łętowo ) and Suckow ( Żukowo ) is likely to be originally been in possession of the Knights Quäsdow. But then it belonged to the family of Bonin, as their relatives in 1390 Tetzlav Bonin enters the service of the Teutonic Knights on Lantow with 40 horses. After 1486 Quäsdow was briefly owned by the family von Massow.
In 1506 the Pomeranian Chancellor and ducal Vogt Kummerzin got to Rügenwalde half of Franzen ( Wrząca ) Egsow ( Kczewo ), ( Komorczyn ) Dubberzin ( Dobrzęcino ) and Great Schlönwitz ( Słonowice ) in exchange for the villages (Wendish ) Tychow ( Tychowo ) and Quäsdow.
1652 is briefly mentioned as Lehnsinhaber Henning of pieces from Reblin on small Quäsdow, it probably from his mother - had inherited - a Born von Kleist from Wendish Tychow. To 1680/90 inherited or bought Adam Podewils on Krag ( Krag ) by his marriage with Clara von Zitzewitz all Zitzwitzsche rule Varzin ( Warcino ), which included young and old Quäsdow. After marrying the Countess Auguste Friederike von Podeils the later Count Werner von Blumenthal in 1805 in the possession, with his son in 1874 sold the reign Jannewitz ( Janiewice ) with Suckow, Lantow, big and small Quäsdow to Karl Anton von Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen. The princes sold in 1931 the agricultural land of the rule ( including Great Quäsdow with 402 acres and small Quäsdow with 68 hectares ) to the Pomeranian settlement company for the purpose of Aufsiedelung.
In 1818 lived in the United Quäsdow 86 inhabitants, in 1885 there were 305, and in 1939 (with retail Quäsdow ) 450
In March 1945, the Red Army troops advanced into the village. Some inhabitants had fled before, but were gewzwungen to return home. Mid-1945 took over Poland, the German courts, and on May 23 and 24, 1946, was the expulsion of most German families.
By 1945 Quäsdow was associated with Jannewitz, Lantow and Suckow for official and civil registry district Suckow in the District Court area Schlawe. It belonged to the district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Since 1945 Gwiazdowo is in Polish hands and today a district of Gmina Sławno in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Slupsk voivodship ).
Local structure before 1945
The municipality Quäsdow belonged to 1945 three villages and Places:
Church
Before 1945 was the population of predominantly Protestant denomination Quäsdow. The village belonged to Jannewitz, Lantow and Suckow Parish Suckow, and the Suckower village church was the central place of worship. The parish belonged to the church Schlawe in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.
The few Catholic residents visited before 1945 its parish church, built in 1928, St. Anthony's Church in Schlawe. When, after 1945, the Catholic population increased sharply, it remained until 1957 still in control. But then a separate parish was built in Żukowo ( Suckow ), the church now - as with the Protestant before 1945 - was the central church of the Catholics. It belongs to the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland.
Today, living in Gwiazdowo Protestant inhabitants are members of the congregation of the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
In Quäsdow there was a class elementary school before 1945. Last German teacher was Walter Damitz. Gwiazdowo has a school today.