Ostrowiec, SÅ‚awno County
Ostrowiec ( German Wusterwitz, Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ).
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Geographical location
Ostrowiec located in Pomerania, ten kilometers south of the county town Sławno on the province road 205 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) - Polanów ( Pollnow ) - Bobolice ( Bublitz ) ). The nearest train station is Sławno near railroad tracks Stargard - Gdańsk and Korzybie - Darłowo. By 1945, the place was a railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow Schlawer the tracks.
Ostrowiec is bordered by Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ) to the west, Kwasowo ( Quatzow ) and Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ) in the north, from the Rakówka ( Krebsbach ) in the east and from the Grabowa ( Grabow ) un the forest Krąg ( Krangen ) in the south.
North of the old estate is the Jezioro Ostrowieckie ( Wusterwitzer lake ), which is about 50 acres in size. In the east, surrounded the forest and forest Kosierzewo Białęcino ( Balenthin ) the municipality and shall accrue to the glacial valleys of Rakówka and Grabowa to about 25 meters above sea level. from. The Rakówka rises in the south and under conservation Bagno Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitzer Moor ) and flows in a northerly direction to the Wieprza ( Wipper ).
Place name
The name Wusterwitz came in Pomerania and Brandenburg several times before, as the name Ostrowiec, which even appears eight times in Poland.
History
The village Wusterwitz at Schlawe was originally built around the church and the manor house, later they expanded it to a village road. It is situated on old building ground: a circular rampart with double ring wall of Wendish time is north of Wusterwitzer lake in Buchenwald to detect.
In 1345 Wusterwitz is called the first time in a document with a Symso de Wustrouits. In a Urfehdebrief is then led to 1456 Hinrich Ramele to Wusterwitze as a witness. After that, the place was a fief of the von Ramel until they cede it to the von Below. 1664 acquired Adam Podewils ( 1617-1697 ) on Krangen the place.
In the middle of the 19th century Oskar Schimmelpfennig bought the estate from the Podewilschen of possession. Around the turn of the century the manor was temporarily in the possession of Prince Hans Heinrich of Pless (Polish Pszczyna ) from Upper Silesia. By 1928, Heinrich Stenzel is mentioned as owner, after whose death he becomes bankrupt and was taken over by buying and selling club Schlawe. A Restgut acquired in 1933 the Major Horst von Wolff.
In 1818 lived in Wusterwitz 374 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1885 to 781 in 1939 and amounted to 757
End of February 1945 troops of the Red Army reached the Grabow and pushed up tight against the front of the village. The Wusterwitzer fled on March 4 to the Baltic Sea coast, but became their trek at Stemnitz ( Staniewice ) - Görshagen ( Górsko ) rolled over and forced the refugees to return home. The town was placed under Polish administration, and it began the immigration of Poles and Ukrainians from territories east of the Curzon Line, which was accompanied by the expulsion of the German population. By 1958, still lived sporadically German families in Wusterwitz. The village was renamed in Ostrowiec and is now a part of Gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).
Office Wusterwitz
Belonged before 1945 formed the community Wusterwitz to the villages Banow (Polish: Baniewo ), Old Mill ( Stary Żytnik ), Vorwerk Balenthin ( Białęcinko ), New Mill ( Nowy Żytnik ) and Wusterwitz - labor camp (now defunct ) were, with the village Balenthin ( Białęcino ) has its own administrative district in the county Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. It was in the area of the registry office district blessing Thin ( Żegocino ) and in the District Court District Schlawe.
Church
Protestant
Before 1945, most inhabitants of Wusterwitz and surrounding Protestant denomination. The village was with the villages Balenthin ( Białęcino ) and Wiesenthal ( Święcianowo ) combines the parish Wusterwitz that ( Podgórki ) ( with blessing Thin ( Żegocino ) ) formed with the parish German Puddiger own parish. It belonged to the church Schlawe in the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union.
In 1940 the parish counted a total of 1766 church members, 809 of the parish Wusterwitz and 876 of the parish of German Puddiger. The church patronage took the landowner Wusterwitz and blessings Thin.
Since 1945, only a few Protestant inhabitants live in Ostrowiec. They are now the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland assigned.
Pastor
The last pre-Reformation Father Lawrence is buried in the church Wusterwitzer. He was followed up in 1945 as a Protestant clergyman:
Catholic
Before 1945, the few Catholic inhabitants of Wusterwitz were assigned to the parish in Pollnow. Since 1945, live in predominantly Catholic Ostrowiec inhabitants. It was on January 29, 1976, a separate parish adapted to the except of the Mother Church Ostrowiec the branch communities Krąg ( Krag ), Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) and Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ) belong. Overall, the parish counts 2086 members of the congregation, who have their own place of worship in Kosierzewo ( Kusserow ). The Parafia thus formed Ostrowiec part of the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland.
Pastor
Parish Church
The Church in Ostrowiec is medieval and was later changed greatly. The tower dates from the second half of the 17th century.
The church has a rich and valuable interior, with lots of carving on the altar, on the pulpit and the organ case. It dates from the 17th century coming to an end and the family of Podewils in Krangen owe.
In the church the painted epitaph of government and Legationsrat Joachim von Podewils depends († 1676 ). It is defined by its extensive ancestors sample, which is represented by sixteen arms of alliance.
After 1945 the church was after more than 400 years of Protestant worship, confiscated by the Catholic Church. On December 7, 1947 it was re-consecrated and received - as well as later the whole parish - the name Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego ( Church of the Holy Exaltation of the Cross ).
School
An old and new elementary school for the Wusterwitzer Banower and children as well as the Barbican Balenthin stood on the village street opposite Wusterwitz. The school was vierklassig.