Otnoga
Otnoga ( German Wottnogge, 1938-1945 Valley of the Mills ( Pom. ), Kasch. Òtnoga ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the municipality Czarna Dąbrówka ( Black Damerkow ) in Bytowski powiat ( county Buetow ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Otnoga is Pomerania, in a hilly landscape on the north bank of the Jezioro Jasień ( Jassener lake ), from here the Lupow (Polish: Łupawa ) flows to the north.
Through the town, the province road runs (DW) 211 at Nowa Dąbrowa ( Neu Damerow ) the country road leaves six ( former National Highway 2) and Sierakowice ( Sierakowitz ) and Kartuzy ( Karthaus ) until after Żukowo ( Zuckau ), where they at the country roads 7 and 20 hits. The DW 211 touches at the northeast corner of Otnoga Landscape Park Stolpetal ( Dolina Landscape Park Slupi ).
Until 1945 there was a rail connection over the three kilometers to the train station in Jerskewitz ( Jerzkowice ) on the - decommissioned after the war and partially disassembled - Railway Lauenburg - Buetow ( Lębork - Bytów ).
Between 1920 and 1939, the German -Polish border ( Polish Corridor ) was only six kilometers to the east of the village.
History
The historic village of shape after Otnoga was a scattered settlement. Originally it was a Pirchsches and later Münchowsches fief and had among others the Chamber President Christian Ernst von Münchow as the owner. After 1754, the owners changed. From 1781 it belonged to the captain of Adam Wildenberg, the (now Polish: Rokity ) capitalization Rakitt possessed.
About 1784 Wottnogge had a Barbican, a water mill, a sawmill, a brickyard, two Kossäten and a sheep in the field, Mark - a total of ten fireplaces. 1847 was the place to Oskar von Woldeck - Arneburg, who married in 1852 the daughter of Count Wilhelm Karl von Münchow. Then it came into bourgeois hands and was divided in 1910. A 91 -acre estate was from 1938 to 1945 still owned by Eugen Uthicke.
In 1910 186 residents were registered in Wottnogge. Their number increased to 1933 to 263, and 1939 lived in the now -called the Mills place even 225 people.
By 1945, belonged to the municipality Wottnogge ( by decree of the President of Szczecin from the top December 29, 1937 the Mills called ) the districts of oaks ( until 1937 Dambee, Polish: Dabie ) lake view ( to 1937 Saviat, Polish: Zawiaty ). She was in office and the civil registry district Damerkow Black ( Czarna Dąbrówka ) and in the District Court area Büzow ( Bytów ) and belonged to the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania.
On March 9, 1945 the Mills was occupied by the Red Army, which did not happen without a fight. The bridge over the Lupow was blown up. In the summer of 1945, the Poles came here and set up its own administration. The Germans were expelled. Valley of the Mills, formerly Wottnogge, was renamed Otnoga.
72 expelled from the Mills villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 113 in East Germany.
The village now has a mayor's office and the district of Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka in powiat Bytowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). It has about 20 inhabitants.
Church
The population of Wottnogge was before 1945 mainly Protestant denomination. By 1909, the place was in the parish Mickrow (Polish: Mikorowo ), then incorporated into the newly formed parish of Great Rakitt ( Rokity ) and belonged to the Church Stolp -Altstadt Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Kurt Hübner.
Since 1945, Catholic citizens live almost exclusively in Otnoga. The reference to the now Rokity mentioned parish seat is still exist, the ( Lupow ) is now, however, the deanery in the diocese Łupawa Pelplin the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are assigned ( in Pomerania Lauenburg ) the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) with the branch church in Lębork.
School
In the single-stage in 1932, a primary school teacher taught 42 school children. The last German teachers were Albert Schmeckel and Siegfried Eckerlein.