Jawory, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Jawory ( German Gaffert ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical Location and Transport
Jawory located in Pomerania, on the east side of the glacial valley of Skotawa ( Schottow ), about 32 kilometers southeast of the city of Slupsk ( Stolp ), 35 kilometers southwest of the city Lębork ( Lauenburg i Pom. ) And three kilometers north-west of the village Unichowo ( Wundichow ) branches off at a road, which at the village Budowo ( Budow ) in a northerly direction from the Province road 210.
History
The former manor Gaffert was in earlier times, is from 1376, a fief of the Pirch family; handed down is the old village name Chawarthi. Around 1784, there were Gaffert a Barbican, a water mill, four pawns, four Kossäten, a schoolmaster, on the field mark of the village a Vorwerk, the Gaffertsche sheep, two wooden warden skating, Zeglin and SOFAD or Rostocken called, and a total of 19 households. The estate was inherited by the Pirch - daughter Dorothea of Pirch, who married in 1800 Ignaz Alexander von Mach. Since then, the estate was until 1945 owned by the Mach family. 1880 was built by Edmund Alexander von Mach simple, but spacious mansion. Last Owner of the property before 1945 was the former royal Prussian district administrator Albrecht von Mach and tenant whose son Joachim Albrecht von Mach ( † 1942 in Russia). Heritage was the youngest son, Siegfried von Mach.
In 1925 were in Gaffert 52 residential buildings, and there were counted 375 inhabitants, which were distributed to 68 households. 1939 were counted 67 households and 312 inhabitants. Besides the good with a floor area of 825 hectares, there were 23 farms in Gaffert.
Before the end of World War II Gaffert belonged to the district of Stolp, administrative region of Pomerania, Pomerania. The municipal area was 1,045 acres in size. The community consisted of a total of four residences:
- Gaffert
- Green Heath
- Hedwigshof
- Malenz.
End of the war Gaffert was taken on March 8, 1945 by the Soviet Army. A convoy of villagers who had taken early in the morning in the direction of large Nossin, Lauenburg and Gdynia, was overrun by Soviet troops and had to turn back. After the war Gaffert was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration and renamed Jawory. The villagers have been displaced in the aftermath of the poles.
59 expelled from Gaffert villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 153 in East Germany.
Today, the village has about 150 inhabitants.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Marie Raschke (1850-1935), German jurist, became involved in the German women's movement