Krzecko
Krzecko ( German Kreitzig ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Slawoborze ( Stolzenberg ) in Świdwiński powiat ( county Schivelbein ).
Geographical location
Krzecko is located three kilometers east of Slawoborze and 15 kilometers north of the county town Świdwin ( Schivelbein ). Below the 72 meters height measured Podgórki ( Ohrtsberge ) is the forestry Krzecko.
History
The village Kreitzig is probably made at the beginning of the 14th century, but was first mentioned in documents in 1499. At that time mortgaged in Schivelbein Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg and Margrave Albrecht Günter von Briesen Kreitzig with three hooves. During the Seven Years' War the city suffered greatly under the by withdrawing Russian troops.
As a landowner are: Lieutenant von Briesen ( 1763) and Lieutenant Colonel von Arnim (1819 ). In 1830, the landowner of Kreitzig, Carl Freiherr von der Goltz, District Administrator of Schivelbein was. In 1884 there were in place three farmers, three and four Kossäten Büdner. 1925 lived 269 inhabitants, in 1939 there were only 210
Most of the inhabitants lived by agriculture and forestry. The craft was represented by one each forging, carpentry, tailoring and shoemaking. The local trade certain merchant Borg and the chicken farm Kruger - not to mention the Gutsbrennerei, the processed potatoes to alcohol.
The last German Mayor of Kreitzig was Paul Kruger. The local court was then in Schivelbein.
On March 3, 1945 the Red Army troops marched into the village. The population was displaced, the place became part of Poland and is now a district of Gmina Slawoborze (Town Stolzenberg ).
Office Kreitzig
By 1932, the place to Schivelbein district, which then, however, in the district of Belgard ( Persante ) was opened. Kreitzig formed with the communities Klötzin and Technow an independent office. Today, the site is as before in - but now different structure - circle Schivelbein.
Registry office Kreitzig
Kreitzig was also the seat of a civil registry office, which made the place together with the communities and Klötzin Technow.
Church
Parish
Kreitzig belonged until 1945 to the church of the Evangelical Church of Pomerania Old Prussian Union and was an independent church that formed the parish Nelep within the network of parishes and Nelep Klötzin. 220 Of the 1137 parish church members in 1940 belonged to the parish Kreitzig.
The proportionate church patronage for Kreitzig held Rittergutsbesitzer von der Goltz. Last German clergyman was Georg Roessler, who was kidnapped by the Russians and died in Tatarka in Minsk in November 1945.
Today Krzecko belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) ( Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland ), the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church. Parish seat is Świdwin.
Village Church
The timber-framed church was built in 1692. In 1935, the patron von der Goltz had to attach at his expense a tower.
School
In the einklassigen elementary school teacher taught until 1944 Lietz, then to 1945 teacher Batz.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Ludwig von Briesen (1773-1859), District Administrator of Schivelbein 1808-1830
- Rüdiger von der Goltz (1837-1910), District Administrator of Schivelbein 1866-1871, Country Director and member of the Reichstag
- Rüdiger von der Goltz (1869-1945), District Administrator of the Kolberg- Körlin 1902-1911, Acting District Administrator of Schivelbein 1917-1919
Sight
A major tourist attraction in Krzecko is the castle and the castle park, whose investment was created mid-19th century by the family von der Goltz. The total area is 6 acres. On the south side grows on the arc-shaped forecourt a Japanese magnolia tree which is five meters wide, seven feet high and in the crown.
The park has numerous between 100 and 150 year old trees, among which is a 27 meter high red book with a circumference of four meters ( trunk diameter: 1.30 meters ) stands out.
The castle was a convalescent home after the Second World War and is now home to a social welfare institution.