Mianowice
Mianowice ( German Mahnwitz, Kashubian Manowic ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Mianowice located in Pomerania, in a plane east of Slupsk ( Stolp ) and 17 kilometers from the county seat. Wide, fertile farmland surrounding the village, bounded on the south by the earlier so-called Mahnwitzer forest.
Mianowice lies on the great Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) from Szczecin on Koszalin ( Koszalin ) and Slupsk leads to Gdansk and on to Pruszcz Gdanski ( Praust ). In the village branches off a side road that runs through Damno ( dams ) until after Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the province road 213. The nearest train station is seven kilometers away Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) on the railway line from Stargard to Gdansk.
Place name
To 1575 the name form Menewitz occurs, 1738-1945 Mahnwitz.
History
Mianowice was formerly an ancient fief of the Massow family who owned the manor in 1496. Tönnies Massow was 1555 owners on Mahnwitz.
In 1738, Otto sold Kaspar von Massow possession of Major Franz Jakob von Zitzewitz. Around 1784 there was a Barbican, a water mill, seven farmers, two Kossäten, a pitcher, a forge and a schoolmaster at a total of 23 households. In 1803 Mahnwitz was part of the extensive possessions, the left Kaspar Heinrich von Zitzewitz on Dumröse. From his wife bought it on April 1, 1812 Ludwig Friedrich of God Mountain, the District Administrator of Stolp, 1842 it was purchased by his son Hans of God Mountain. The last owners were members of the Schultz family, the siblings Schultz. In 1938 the manor had a farm size of 1167 hectares.
In 1910 the city counted 199 inhabitants. In 1925, stood in the village of 13 residential buildings. The number of inhabitants increased to 1933 to 244 in 1939 and amounted to 232
By 1945 Mahnwitz was a municipality in the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania. On the 1,190 acre community area Mahnwitz was the only place of residence. The village was the seat of the administrative and civil registry district Mahnwitz and belonged to the gendarmerie district Velsow ( Wieliszewo ) in the District Court area Stolp.
At the approach of the Red Army in March 1945, the residents of the village Mahnwitz left in panic. A trek services mentioned above by the mayor broke after Hebrondamnitz ( Damnica ) and continue on towards the east, but was overtaken in Grapitz ( Grapice ). To Mahnwitz itself has been fought, there were several deaths. In July 1945, Poland in the village, occupied farms and sold the first villagers. 53 expelled from Mahnwitz villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 123 in East Germany. Mahnwitz was placed under Polish administration and renamed by the Poles in Mianowice. For children of families from Mahnwitz Area, who had remained behind, had existed since 1951/52, for several years a fünfklassige German school.
The village is now part of Gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). Here now home to more than 300 inhabitants.
Church
Before 1945, the population of Mahnwitz predominantly Protestant denomination was. The village was part of the parish Sageritz (now Polish: Zagórzyca ) that once belonged to the church Ostsprengel Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union Church Stolp -Altstadt.
Since 1945, predominantly Catholic population live in Mianowice. Furthermore, there is the church compound after Zagórzyca ( Sageritz ), where a - well, of course Catholic - parish was erected. It is part of the deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members now belong to Cross parish in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
As early as 1784 there were in Mahnwitz a schoolmaster. In the single-stage in 1932, a primary school teacher taught 43 children.
For the children of backward German families in and around Mianowice it gave in 1951/52, for several years yet fünfklassige a German school.
Personality of the place
- Hans Hugo Erdmann of God Berg (1812-1890), estate owners and politicians