Kowalewice, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kowalewice ( German Alt ball joke ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
Kowalewice located in Eastern Pomerania is 9 km east of Darlowo ( Rügenwalde) on the south bank of the Wieprza ( Wipper ), namely on a link road between highways 203 and 205 of Rügenwalde from Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) or after Sławno ( Schlawe ) lead. The nearest train station is located in Nowy Jaroslaw ( New Järshagen ). Incorporated the small village Borzyszkowo is ( Renken Hagen). Neighboring districts in the West Krupy ( Grupenhagen ), in the north Kowalewiczki ( New ball joke), to the east of Stary Kraków ( Old Krakow) and in the south a forest area that has been designated before 1945 as Old Krakow State Forest.
In the north the Wipper forms the natural border district. With their Wiesentalstrasse it determines the character of the village. The terrain is flat wavy at an altitude of about 20 meters above the sea level; in the glacial valley Wipper, it drops to about 8 meters. The highest point is located near the Old Krakow border and is about 28 meters.
Village community
Old ball joke was a village and parish. In 1818 the settlement had 289 inhabitants. Before 1871 the number of inhabitants remained below 300, then temporarily to rise to 1939 to over 400. It was an almost exclusively agrarian village community, also workers and craftsmen had agricultural land. The farms were 5-38 acres in size, pig and dairy farming were the main sources of income.
A small stream which flows from the south into the Wipper, divided the village in the western, lower altitudes lower village, in which the post office and an inn were, and the eastern, higher altitude Upper village with school and church.
History
The place names Old New ball ball wit and humor go back to the former domain ball joke, which was parceled early 19th century as part of the Stein-Hardenberg 's agricultural reforms and thereby incurred their district the two places as independent villages. One document from 1347, according to this domain, which was originally a manor, had been called in the Middle Ages Kugelwytze. In the 18th century, the domain was referred to as Kugelfitz. Before the agrarian reform the settlement Alt ball joke had been referred to as small ball joke. After the separation of the farms from Vorwerk was from the settlement with the Restgut the neighboring village of New ball joke formed.
In the Middle Ages, the domain was apparently owned by the family of Sanitz; in any case bought from the Carthusian monastery Marienkron 1407-1495 the family of Sanitz small ball Witz. 1528 comes in the monastery's Groves of small ball joke to attacks by farmers from the ducal Rügenwalder office. After the dissolution of the monastery as a result of the Reformation small ball joke is the Rügenwalder office attached. During a visitation in 1561, the City Council Rügenwalde put in a border dispute that had existed between ball wit and " the Wüsteneye ".
From Invent arias of Rügenwalder Office shows that in 1648 the mayor Jochim rind the village small ball joke board, in which 11 farmers and two Landkossäten were established in 1784, the village had a free mayor, 17 farmers, three Kossäten, three Büdner, a school- holder, which the school house peculiarly belonged to a shepherd huts and a total of 24 hearths (households). Until the abolition of serfdom, the villagers were hand - span and support duty on the Vorwerk ball joke.
On March 7, 1945 Old Globe joke was occupied by Soviet troops. Soon after, in the manor of New ball joke drew a Soviet commandant. After Pomerania was placed under Polish administration, also started in old and new ball wit the expulsion of the German locals due to the so-called Bierut Decrees and the influx of Polish and Ukrainian immigrants who came from areas east of the Curzon Line. The first evictions were carried out in December 1945, another on 17 August 1946. The last Germans left on June 10 1947 Old ball joke.