Konarzewo, Goleniów County
Konarzewo ( German Kniephof ) is a village in Nowogardzka ( Pomerania ) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It belongs to the Gmina Nowogardzka ( urban and rural community of Pomerania ) in the powiat Goleniowski ( Goleniowska circle).
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Geographical location
Konarzewo located in Pomerania, about nine kilometers northeast of the small town Nowogardzka, 32 kilometers northeast of the small town Goleniów and 52 kilometers north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.
History
Kniephof was originally a knight's seat and fiefs the family of von Dewitz, who later, along with Jarchlin and Külz, passed by purchase into the possession of the family of Bismarck. The buyer was the Colonel Friedrich August von Bismarck - Schönhausen. Around 1780 were among Kniephof a Vorwerk with a mansion and a total of four households
As of 1816 the later Chancellor Otto von Bismarck experienced in Kniephof the first years of his childhood. Here Bismarck's beloved sister Malwine von Bismarck was born in 1827. The brothers Bernhard von Bismarck Otto von Bismarck and jointly managed the goods Kniephof Jarchlin and Külz 1839-1845. 1845 came Kniephof to Otto von Bismarck, who in 1868 sold it, in 1862 Prime Minister of Prussia to his nephew Philip of Bismarck. Last owner of Kniephof until 1945 Klaus von Bismarck.
By 1945 Kniephof belonged to the district of Pomerania in the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Towards the end of the Second World War, the region was occupied in the spring of 1945 by the Red Army and then put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. The German site now received the Polish name Konarzewo. In the following months, the native German population of immigrants after the war Poland was driven out of the village due to the so-called Bierut Decrees.
Parish
Kniephof was the parish in the neighboring village Jarchlin, which belonged to the Synod of Daber.