Karwice, SÅ‚awno County
Karwice ( German Karwitz ) is a village in Poland in the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ) of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
- 4.1 Village Church
- 4.2 Protestant church
- 4.3 Catholic church
- 7.1 Literature
- 7.2 Weblink
- 7.3 footnotes
Geographical location
Karwice located in Pomerania, nine kilometers west of the county town Sławno. Karwice is bordered by the towns of Malechowo ( Malchow ) to the west, Słowino ( Schlawin ) and Boleszewo ( Rötzenhagen ) in the north, Rzyszczewo ( Ristow ) in the east and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ) Żegocino ( blessing Thin) and Paproty ( Parpart ) in the south.
The flat terrain of the district increases from about 30 m above sea level in the north for a distance of 6 km to about 60 m to the south.
Place name
The place name is of Slavic origin and comes Karwitz today currently in Lower Saxony Wendland and as a former German name in Pomerania district of Pomerania. The latter village is named Karwice, which also still exists in the Łódź Voivodeship, in Polish too.
History
The original Anger village which has developed into the estate village, was once a Schatullgut of the Dukes of Pomerania. In 1539 they exchanged it against Drosedow (now Polish Drozdowo ) to Jochen Grape. They would, however, have been only a part of Karwitz, because already in 1450 a Claus Grape is mentioned as the owner, who ( in 1400 ) goes back to the " olden Gerdt ," which is said to have founded by Grape on Karwitz gender.
In 1775 the estate of which went to the Grape by Billerbeck, then to the basement of stone, and in 1862 it belonged to the Griitzmacher family.
In 1818 living in Karwitz 281 inhabitants. Their number rises to 444 in 1885 and 1939 on 694
By 1945 Karwitz belonged to the district of Malchow (now Polish Malechowo ) was there also civilly oriented, and was in the District Court area Schlawe. It belonged to the district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.
Before penetrated the Red Army in the village on March 6, 1945 its inhabitants had tried to flee to the west. Your trek but was overrun and looted. The Karwitzer had to turn back; many people were deported to Russia. In the summer of 1945, the expulsion of the indigenous German population began. Karwitz was considered, Karwice ' part of Gmina Malechowo in the powiat of Koszalin Voivodeship Slawienski, West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.
Development of the population
Local structure before 1945
The municipality Karwitz included, in 1945, the villages
Church
Village Church
The late Gothic church of brick and fieldstone is built on a rectangular plan. She has no chancel. An extension is located on the north side of the tomb. The tower is in the upper part made of wood and has a four-sided, eight-sided top helmet.
After the war the church was celebrated in more than 400 years of Protestant worship was expropriated and taken over by the Polish Catholic Church. On March 19, 1975, the church received a new consecration and was dedicated to St. Joseph.
Evangelical Church of St.
Karwitz is since 1646 ( Old ) Malchow (Polish: Malechowo ) connected earlier but independent parish. She was one of only Protestant inhabitants until 1945 to Church Circle Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania. The church patronage was for the landowner, in the last few years before 1945, however, the place was patronage -free. The last German clergymen, with headquarters in Malchow, was pastor Otto Nitschalk.
Today living in Karwice Protestant residents are assigned to the parish office in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
Catholic church
Today's population of Karwice is almost exclusively Catholic denomination. Karwice is today - as the parish Boleszewo ( Rötzenhagen ) - a branch church in the parish Słowino ( Schlawin ) in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Darłowo of the Catholic Church in Poland.
School
The Karwitzer school was zweiklassig with a number of up to 100 children and 1945. It was originally housed in the teacher's house before 1909 a building was erected. The last German school principals were the teachers Thomas, Buss, Giese and horn.
Traffic
The town lies on the national road 6 ( = European route 28 ), the former German Empire Street 2 Since 2006, here branches off the main road 37 from, which proves to be important and traffic pregnant feeder to the Baltic Sea at Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) and the previous Chaussee Słowino ( Schlawin ) and Rusko ( Rußhagen ) replaced.
Karwice has its own station on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk.