Koczała
Koczala ( German Flötenstein ) is a village with a seat of the same rural community in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the powiat Człuchowski ( Pomerania ).
- 2.2.1 Catholic Church
- 2.2.2 Evangelical Church
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 Municipality arrangement
- 3.3 traffic
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 Weblink
- 4.3 footnotes
Geographical location
Koczala located in the southwest of the Pomorskie Voivodeship not far from the border with the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The place can be reached by a road which at Piaszczyna (pure water ) on the regional road 20 ( Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) - Gdynia ( Gdynia ) ) branches and Pietrzykowo ( United Peterkau ) and Bielsko ( Bölzig ) to Przechlewo ( Prechlau ) leads. A direct rail connection does not exist.
Village Koczala ( Flötenstein )
History
The area around Flötenstein was inhabited in prehistoric times. 1356 gave Alexander rod with the consent of the Commendatore in Pommern (now Polish: Człuchów ) its mayor Hermann 60 hooves, which were to be filled by kulmischem right with farmers.
In the Hussites in 1433 Flötenstein was devastated.
In 1456 the German Order Flötenstein pledged to the Pomeranian nobles Anton von der Osten and Cordt Glasenapp.
The Swedish-Polish War 1656-1660 has ravaged Flötenstein.
Before 1945, the community Flötenstein belonged to the district of Pomerania, 1919-1939 border with the province of Posen- West Prussia, then to the government district boundary Posen- West Prussia in the Prussian province of Pomerania. In 1939 there were 1,843 inhabitants registered here. The vernacular called Flötenstein like " Krähenwinkel " because here countless crows had their numerous nesting sites and were to be found at any time.
After 1945, the city came under the name Koczala to Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ) and became the seat of Gmina Koczala in powiat Człuchowski.
Local structure to 1945
The municipality Flötenstein belonged before 1945 seven of Places: On Diemensee, Flötenstein station, the border town (now Polish: Działek ) Kreschenbruch ( Podlesie ) Pothaken ( Potoki ) and Steinforth forester's house.
Church
Catholic Church
The Catholic parish church of St. Mary Magdalene was built after the fire of the old church from 1695 due to lightning strike on 19 May 1891 in 1901 to 1902 Concrete Structures in neo-Romanesque -Gothic style. Your consecration she received on 27 November 1902. Polish In time it received the name Kościół pw Nawodzenia NMP.
Flötenstein was the seat of a Catholic parish. Approximately 79 % of the population belonged before 1945 to the Catholic denomination. After 1945 the number of Catholics grew still. The place is now in the deanery Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) integrated in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The places Starzno ( Starsen ) and Bielsko ( Bölzig ) are branch churches.
Evangelical Church
The Protestant parish church was built in 1909 on the so-called Babylon Hill, with the support of the Diaspora Association of Gustav -Adolf -Werk. The parish Flötenstein belonged to the Church of Pomerania before 1945 in the Church of the Province of West Prussia, the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union. Since 1945, live in Koczala only very few evangelical church members. You now belong to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Next God of employment is Wołcza Wielka (Great Volz ).
In Flötenstein held office until 1945 as a Protestant clergyman: Hermann August Schmökel John ( 1899-1900 ), Johann Otto Grabowski ( 1901-1903 ), Maximilian Albert Mayer ( 1903-1924 ), Friedrich Kübler ( 1924-1928 ), Otto Düwel (1929 - 1936) and Carl Heinz Heymann ( 1936-1945 ).
Gmina Koczala
General
The rural community Koczala covers an area of 22.41 km ², which corresponds to 14.13 % of the total area of the powiat Człuchowski. 67 % of the municipal area is forest and forest areas. In the Gmina 3,505 residents are registered, of which 2,111 live in the central city Koczala.
The municipality extends to the northwest on the border with the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, and its eastern border is the former border of the German Empire to the Polish Corridor. Through the eastern municipality the Brda ( Brahe ) flows in the western the Ruda ( mutton flow ).
Neighboring communities of Koczala are:
- Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) Przechlewo ( Prechlau ) and Rzeczenica ( Steger ) in the powiat Człuchowski ( Pomerania ),
- Lipnica ( Liepnitz ) in Bytowski powiat ( county Buetow )
- Bialy Bór ( Baldenburg ) in the powiat Szczecinecki ( Neustettin ), already located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Community structure
The Gmina Koczala is made up of 30 villages, the seven districts ( " Schulz offices " ) are assigned.
- Districts:
- Bielsko ( Bölzig )
- Koczala ( Flötenstein )
- Łękinia ( flanks )
- Pietrzykowo ( United Peterkau )
- Starzno ( Starsen )
- Trzyniec ( Steinforth )
- Załęże ( Flemmingsort )
- Other localities: adamki ( Adamshof ) Brýle ( Brill ), Ciemino, Dymin ( Diemen ), Działek ( border town ), Dźwierzeński Młyn Dźwierzno ( Darsen ), Kalka, Niedźwiady ( bear oak), Niesiłowo, Ostrówek ( Engsee ) Pietrzykówko (Klein Peterkau ) Płocicz (hammer), Podlesie ( Kreschenbruch ) Potoki ( Pothaken ), Stara Brda ( Altbraa ), Stara Brda Pilska ( Altbraa Schneidemühl ) Strużka ( Seedorf ), Świerkówko ( swan break), Wilkowo ( dog's tail ), Zagaje ( Stillort ), Zapadłe ( At the Ketelmesse ) and Żukowo (Fuchs break).
Traffic
The Gmina Koczala is conveniently moderately ablgelegen and is very difficult to access. The nearest town is Miastko ( Rummelsburg ), which is accessible via Undeveloped side roads and country lanes.
A rail link no longer exists since 1992. At that time, built in 1902 railway Człuchów - Słosinko of Człuchów ( Pomerania ) on Przechlewo ( Prechlau ) was decommissioned by Słosinko ( Reinfeld ) with cruise to Miastko.