Kwasowo

Kwasowo ( German Quatzow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the powiat Slawienski.

  • 5.1 parish
  • 5.2 Protestant church 5.2.1 pastor until 1945
  • 8.1 Literature
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  • 8.3 footnotes

Geographical location

Kwasowo located four kilometers south of the county town Sławno on the province road 205 that leads from Sławno on Polanów ( Pollnow ) to Bobolice ( Bublitz ). By 1945, the place was a railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow Schlawer the tracks.

The average altitude of Kwasowo is 50 meters above sea level. In the south of the town, just over the border district of Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ), located at 82 meters the highest point - the earlier so-called Hahnenkräh - in the otherwise flat undulating ground moraine with some ponds and bog holes.

Neighboring towns of Kwasowo are: in the west Bobrowiczki ( ( New) Bewersdorf ), in the north Sławno, northeast Pomiłowo ( Marienthal ), to the east Gwiazdowo ( Quäsdow ), and in the south Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ) Baniewo ( Banow ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ).

Place name

Earlier forms of the name are Quassow ( as well as small and large Quassow in Mecklenburg ). Quatzau and The name " Quatzow " is derived from the Slavic word quas = sour, wet, and means something like Sauerbruch. The Polish name is wrong with this derivation match ( Kwaśny = sour).

History

The first mention learned today Kwasowo on 22 November 1273 as the Camminer bishop Hermann von Gleichen enfeoffed the Order of St. John with Quatzow and some other villages. 1337 sell the brothers and Stephen Jasko of Quassow fields to the city Schlawe. The Swenzone Jesko of Schlawe approved the sale and sets the limit fixed by the tips of mountains on the mandrel Bach to the Wipper to the old jetty at Warschow. The district boundaries in this area seem to have been maintained until modern times. Later, the feud comes to the family of Massow, the 1490 two resulting in Quatzow knight seats releases: Quatzow A acquires the family of Brünnow who holds the fief until 1686, Quatzow B the family of Lettow, later it goes successively to the families of Natzmer of Ramel and Podewils.

In 1686 the District Rüdiger Otto von Zitzewitz ( † 1714) buys both parties and also acquires the desolate village has become Reddichow ( between Quatzow and Bewersdorf ). With Reddichow the Carthusian Monastery Marienkron was invested in 1406. After the dissolution of the village changed between the families of Kamecke, of Krummel and Ramel, then all three fiefdoms remain in one hand, albeit with changing owners. In the period of about 1786-1790, the manor was owned by August Carl Jacob von der Schulenburg. 1819 finally the Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm von Michaelis buys the estate. His family maintains it until 1945. Squire Last Ernst H. von Michaelis.

In 1818 lived in Quatzow 327 inhabitants, whose number rose to 498 by 1939. Today in Kwasowo live 519 people.

On March 6, 1945, a longer trek prepared before the approaching Red Army troops went on the run in the direction Stolpmünde ( since 1945 Polish Ustka ) He reached Saleske ( Zaleskie ) and was south to Great Strellin ( Strzelino ) directed. On March 10, the Quatzower were overrun by Soviet troops and to return and then forced to work assignments on the estate. Some Quatzowern managed to escape, while others had to remain there until 1957.

On October 30 the Poles took over the administration. Quatzow was named Kwasowo and became a part of Gmina Sławno in powiat Slawienski in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Slupsk voivodship ).

Local structure to 1945

The municipality Quatzow belonged before 1945 four villages and Places:

Office Quatzow

By 1945 Quatzow formed with the communities Kusserow Marienthal and the District Quatzow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.

At the same time the three communities were connected to the registry office Quatzow and belonged to the district court area Schlawe.

Church

Parish Church

The Quatzower parish church was built in 1732/33 instead of a wooden church burned down massively on the Kirchberg. The entrance is on the wood porch on the west tower. The interior design was until 1945 in wood, through the paint was black and gray marble imitated.

Presented at the wooden barrel ceiling, a large painting of Christ's birth dar. law and links from the pulpit above the altar, beside the image of the woman of Bieberstein ( wife of the builder ) - it stood to the left of the altar - were painted wooden figures of the four evangelists to see.

Among the choirs, the sarcophagi of the cartridge and their family members stood until 1908.

About two hundred years, the Quatzower church was a Protestant church. After 1945 it was confiscated by the Catholic Church. In its rededication on May 1, 1948, she was named Niepokalanego Serca NMP.

Evangelical Church of St.

In Quatzow lived exclusively Protestant population before 1945. In the parish Quatzow the village of Marienthal ( Pomiłowo ) was incorporated in 1940 and counted together 651 members of the congregation. The church patronage held the landowner family, last patron was Ernst H. von Michaelis.

The congregation Quatzow made ​​with the parish Kusserow ( Kosierzewo ) the parish Quatzow. Vicarage was Quatzow whose incumbents had to serve in 1940 a total of 1051 members of the congregation. The church patronage by Kusserow took the last true landowner Marie Görlitz born from Below. The two cartridge of Quatzow and Kusserow had in the parish of the same election and voting.

Today, few Protestant church members live in Kwasowo. You now belong to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

Pastor until 1945

Since the Reformation to 1945 worked as a pastor in the parish Quatzow:

Catholic church

Today, living in Kwasowo residents mainly belong to the Catholic Church. It has been about is the church building after 1945. Kwasowo is even now a separate parish, but which is only a branch church of St. Anthony's parish church in Sławno. It belongs to the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Since 2005, Pastor Mateusz Krzywicki is responsible minister.

School

Located along the village street opposite the former estate is the schoolhouse. The brick building was home before 1945 classrooms and teacher's residence and is still used for teaching purposes. 1938 was an agricultural vocational school connected here.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the town

  • Hubert von Michaelis (1858-1925), German landed gentry and a member of the German Reichstag

References

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