Karznica
Karznica ( German Wendish Karstnitz, 1938-45 Ramnitz, Kasch. Kaszëbskô Karznica ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Potegowo ( Pottangow ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Karznica is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 23 kilometers east of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in a plane between the rivers Stolpe ( Słupia ) and Lupow ( Łupawa ) on the river Rambow ( Rębowa ), which runs through the city from south to north and a short time later in the Lupow opens.
In west-east direction, the Polish national road 6 runs ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28), the German -Polish border at Kołbaskowo ( Kolbitzow ) and Stettin to Danzig and further Pruszcz Gdański ( Praust ) connects through the village. The nearest train station is five kilometers away Strzyżyno Słupskie ( Stresow ) to the state railway line from Stargard in Pomerania to Gdańsk.
Place name
Before 1945 there were in the district of Stolp two places called Karstnitz. They were separated by only about kilometers and were washed by adding " German " or " Wendish " distinguished from each other. Between 1938 and 1945 led German Karstnitz (now Polish: Karżniczka ) the official name " Karstnitz " while Wendish Karstnitz (now So Polish: Karznica, was renamed " Ramnitz ".
History
The historic village of shape after Wendish Karstnitz (formerly Wendish Carstnitz written ) was a small village streets. In the period 1531-1724 it was Chorken owned by the family and was then owned by the Grumbkow family. The State Minister Philipp Otto von Grumbkow sold Wendish Karstnitz 1733 Joachim Ehrenreich of Kettelhack, and from that it went over to the Kleist family.
Around 1784 had Wendish Karstnitz a Vorwerk, six farmers, two Kossäten, a forge and a schoolmaster at a total of 15 households.
In 1803 the family Krockow bought the estate from which it was transferred in 1855 to the family Wedel and then on Alexander von Livonius and his son Artur of Livonius. The 850 -acre estate was before 1945 last property of the Lehmann family.
In 1910 Wendish Karstnitz counted 294 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 462 and in 1939 was one of the then -called Ramnitz place 425 inhabitants.
Belonged to the municipality of Wendish Karstnitz Before 1945, respectively. Ramnitz the two districts of Rambow (now Polish: Rębowo ) and Velsow ( Wieliszewo ). The church was the seat of the homonymous administrative and civil registry district in which also the communities Alt Damerow ( Stara Dąbrowa ), Neu Damerow ( Nowa Dąbrowa ) and Sochow ( Zochowo ) were incorporated. She lay in the district of Stolp in Pomerania in the administrative district of the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Towards the end of World War II occupied in the evening hours of March 8 1945, Soviet troops Ramnitz. Here they established a supply base. As the Red Army in 1950 withdrew from the place occupied Poland the village. The German population was expelled without exception. The Polish name Karznica was from the German place names Wendish Karstnitz or Ramnitz. The village is now part of Gmina Potegowo in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). Karznica, which now counts 203 inhabitants, is the seat of a Schulz office to which the village Rębowo ( Rambow ) is integrated.
Church
In Wendish Karstnitz or Ramnitz lived a majority Protestant population before 1945. The village belonged to the parish Lupow (now Polish: Łupawa ) in the Church Stolp - old town in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Gerhard Gehlhoff.
Since 1945, the residents of Karznica are almost all Catholic. The connection to - but now Catholic - vicarage Łupawa ( Lupow ) is still there, but now part of the parish to the newly formed Office of the Dean Łupawa in the diocese Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are now the parish Church of the Cross Parish in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland assigned.
School
Already around 1784 Wendish Karstnitz had a schoolmaster. The 1932 three-level elementary school was located in the district of Rambow (now Polish: Rębowo ). Here taught two teachers in three classes 90 school children.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Bogislaff Otto von Kleist (1744-1818), District President of Belgard- Polzin