Lubin, Kamień County
Lubin ( German Lebbin ) is a village on the island of Wolin ( Wollin ); it belongs to the Gmina Międzyzdroje ( Misdroy ) in the powiat Kamieński the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical location
The village lies on the island of Wolin on the southwestern end of the Misdroy - Lebbiner terminal moraine, which is up to 90 m high and steep in places west to Wicko Wielkie ( German: Big Vietziger lake ), a bay of the Szczecin Lagoon, drops. It is located directly at the output of the old Swine from the Szczecin Lagoon. West of the village is located in the lagoon, the island Krzek Wielki (Grand Kricks ).
History
A Bronze Age hillfort is a feature for an early settlement of the area. In this older castle wall a Slavic castle was built, which was destroyed in 1173 by the Danes. The slavs temporal castle wall was part of a larger settlement, which was very significant addition Wollin ( Jumne - Vineta ) and the northern lagoon dominated.
It is believed that the bishop Otto of Bamberg during his first missionary journey to Pomerania in 1124 visited the site, which was already at that time because of its favorable location of particular importance. Excavations in 2009 uncovered the remains of foundations of a well- consecrated in 1124 by Otto von Bamberg Church within the castle walls.
Prince Bogusław I of Pomerania ( † 1187 ) gave in 1186 Lebbin together with a large part of the island of Wolin, the Diocese of Pomerania, which then in Lebbin einrichtete a bailiwick. The bailiff stood by the Swine passing ships inch of its passage.
In the village Lebbin on the Wolin Werder, was formerly the Lubin or Lubbin castle. The castle, which belonged to the provost Wollin at the time, was 1578/9 swapped with his goods from the Pomeranian duke Johann Friedrich against a part of the village Kucklow, and Lebbin was assigned to the Office Pomeranian Wolin.
Since about 1600 in the area outcropping Oberturoner chalk deposits were used. The Szczecin entrepreneur John Quistorp she left for his 1855 north of the village on the shores of the Great Lake Vietziger reduce founded Portland cement factory, which was the second in Germany, and at times the largest in Europe. By 1890 they had about 600 employees. Quistorp left about 150 company housing and other social institutions build in Lebbin ( eg school, widow's house, working-class educational institution, cooperative department store ) for its employees. The chalk pits were in the neighboring lime kiln ( on April 1, 1937 by Lebbin incorporated ). When the local chalk mining for cement production was no longer sufficient, leaving his son and heir Martin Quistorp Cretaceous of the island of Rügen deliver their own vessels as the Lebbin II about the Lebbiner Fabrikenhafen. Until almost the end of World War II still chalk was recovered from the pits. Then they were left to nature, and ran after trying 1948-1954 the chalk mining on a large scale once again, full of water. The approximately 400 x 250 m large chalk quarry of lime kiln is now known as " turquoise " ( Jezioro Turkusowe ) a popular destination in the Wolin National Park ( Woliński Park Narodowy ). In the lake, the light breaks in a peculiar way, giving it a turquoise shimmer.
By 1945 Lebbin belonged to the district of Pomerania in the district of Stettin Pomerania.
At the end of World War II Lebbin was early May 1945 occupied by the Red Army and then asked, with all Pomerania under Polish administration. The factories were dismantled in 1945 and transported as reparations to the Soviet Union. It started the immigration of Polish civilians who were settled in the village. The factory buildings and the harbor were used for fishing and fish processing.
Attractions
- Church of 1861, with neo-gothic tower and stepped gables
- Memorial Cemetery with memorial stone, created "In Memory of the former residents " in German and Polish language and with a lapidary German grave stones, in 2007
- Viewpoint " Zielonka " of the Lebbiner mountains on the return current delta of Swine, overlooking the islands of the Delta
- Jezioro Turkusowe ( " turquoise " ) in lime kiln, about 400 x 250 m large former chalk quarry