Karżniczka
Karżniczka ( German German Karstnitz, 1938-1945 Karstnitz ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Karżniczka through which the stream Charstnica ( Carstnitz ) flows, is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 17 kilometers east of the county town of Slupsk ( Stolp ) on a side street, in Mianowice ( Mahnwitz ) of the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, today Europastraße 28) branches off and leads over Zagórzyca ( Sageritz ) to Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ). The nearest train station is Damnica to the state railway line 202 Stargard - Gdansk.
Place name
In the county Stolp there were until 1937 two rural communities with the name " Karstnitz ". They were distinguished by the addition of " Wendish " or " German ". German Karstnitz was from 1938 Karstnitz ( without additives) called while Wendish Karstnitz in " Ramnitz " (in Polish today: Karznica ) has been renamed.
History
The settlement form after Karżniczka is a small village streets.
In the years 1493 and 1538 it was owned by the family of Bandemer. 1546 enfeoffed Duke Barnim of Pomerania -Stettin Captain Bartholomew Schwave to Buetow (now Polish: Bytów ) with German Karstnitz. Later it was with gasoline ( Bięcino ) a Wobesersches and then a Puttkamer cal fief.
Daniel Dietrich of Hebron Damnitz ( Damnica ) sold Karstnitz 1686 to Georg Lorenz von Puttkamer as a new fief for his descendants, and it remained in their possession 259 years. Next squire was Bogislaw Ulrich von Puttkamer District Stolp ( Slupsk ), which took over the estate in 1714 from his father.
To 1784 had German Karstnitz a Barbican, a grain mill, a saw mill, four Kossäten, a schoolmaster, also the Vorwerk Grunhof, for a total of 18 households.
In 1905, German Karstnitz counted 225 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1933 to 562 in 1939 and amounted to 532 Up to 1945 it was a rural municipality in the district of Stolp in the administrative region of Pomerania Pomerania. The village was incorporated in the official, registry office and gendarmerie district Hebrondamnitz ( Damnica ). The municipal area was 965 hectares. In the municipality there were three Karstnitz Locations:
- Karstnitz
- Grunhof
- Kranichshof
In 1925 were in German Karstnitz 30 residential buildings.
Towards the end of World War II Karstnitz was occupied on 8 March 1945 by the Red Army. A convoy of villagers from Karstnitz, who had set off in the direction of Gdańsk Bay, was overrun by Soviet troops and was forced to turn back. The family of the landowner Bogislaw of Puttkamer managed to escape by boat across the Baltic Sea. Although Pomerania was after the war all been placed under Polish administration, but Karstnitz was abandoned only after October 1951 by Soviet troops and leave the poles.
34 villagers were later determined from Karstnitz in the Federal Republic of Germany and 159 in East Germany.
The village is now a part of Gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). Here Today, about 400 inhabitants.
Church
Before 1945 the inhabitants were predominantly Protestant denomination of Karstnitz. The village belonged to the parish Sageritz (now Polish: Zagórzyca ) in the church Stolp - old town in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.
The competent before 1945 was the Catholic parish in Stolp ( Slupsk ).
Since 1945, the population of Karżniczka is mostly Catholic. The place continues to be Zagórza ( Sageritz ), where the church is now the name Św. Józef ( St. Joseph ) bears. It is in the deanery in the diocese Główczyce Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are looked after by the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
As early as 1784 there were in German Karstnitz a schoolmaster. Until 1945, there was a single-stage primary school with a teacher who taught last 62 school children.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henning von Puttkamer (1826-1907), royal Prussian Appellationsgerichtsrat, landowner in German Karstnitz and gasoline, Member of the Reichstag
- Georg Henning von Puttkamer (1727-1814), royal - Prussian lieutenant general and squire to German Karstnitz, gasoline and Treblinka
Attractions
Front of the ruins of the moated castle Karstnitz, 2010.
Back of the ruins of the moated castle Karstnitz, 2010.
Entrance of the castle park, 2010.
Well over Karżniczka addition is famous erected a moated castle in the 18th century manor house, the forest and meadow area was built on an island in one. Several generations of the family Puttkamer managed from here their last 966 acres of land enclosing farm estate. Before 1945, the castle had a valuable interiors. It shone brilliantly when it visited the Empress and Queen Auguste Victoria in 1910. In the summer of 1939, the last family of Puttkamers took place here.
After the Soviet troops Karstnitz had abandoned in 1951, the castle was confiscated under Polish government expropriation measures. First, here was a school, then housed an agricultural advisory service. In the 1950s the castle was declared a National Monument. Different investors took over the estate after 1990, but did too little to rehabilitate the building and to supply a new use purpose.
On 5 November 2009, a fire destroyed - probably caused by arson - the castle. Roof and attic were beyond saving. The damage was estimated at about 500,000 €. Yet to be resolved over the future of the building.