Mazów
Mazow ( German Meitzow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship, for the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) belongs in the circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
Mazow located eleven kilometers north of Sławno on the southern slope of the Wippertals in a flow loop. The altitude of the village is located at 22 meters above sea level., That of Wippertals at 10 meters. Previously, the small farming village was very isolated and connected only by dirt roads with neighboring places: in the west Stary Kraków ( Old Krakow), in the north Chudaczewko ( New Kuddezow ), to the east: Wilkowice ( Wilhelmina) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ), and in the south Radosław ( Coccejendorf, formerly Schwenzenhagen ).
History
Meitzow will probably be the village called " Mozow ," the Duke Swantopolk II of Pomerania in 1240 are with other villages to the Order of St. John. Duke Eric II of Pomerania in 1474 exchanged six villages with Pollnow (now Polish: Polanów ), and has since belonged to the Official Meitzow Rügenwalde
Around 1780, the village has: 1 free Schulze, 5 farmers, 4 Landkossäten, Straßenkossäten 1, 2, and 1 Büdner school and shepherds huts with a total of 15 fireplaces.
1818 lived in Meitzow 141 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1864 to 228, was 1939 but only 136 in 1934, the village received electricity.
On March 7, 1945 the Red Army soldiers invaded the village. The inhabitants were resettled in German Puddiger ( Podgórki ), but came to establishing a headquarters gradually back. In November 1947 Poland took over the village.
By 1945 Meitzow belonged to Old Krakow ( Stary Kraków) and Kannin ( Kanin ) to the district of Old Krakow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Also civilly Meitzow was oriented to Old Krakow towards. The district court was in Schlawe.
Today, the village under the Polish name Mazow is a district of Gmina Postomino in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Church
Before 1945, the population of Meitzow was almost exclusively Protestant. The village belonged to Kannin ( Kanin ) to the parish of Old Krakow church circle Rügenwalde in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Erich Kramer.
Today, most inhabitants of Mazow are Catholic. The connection of the village to Stary Kraków remained where a parish in the deanery Darłowo was established in the diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The evangelical church members now serves the parish in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
Prior to 1945, attended the primary school teacher's house stood in the middle of the village. About 20 children were taught here. The last German teacher was Edward Zühlke.