Pałówko

Pałówko ( German New Paalow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

The farming village Pałówko located in Eastern Pomerania on a side street that Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) on the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) with Pieszcz ( Peest ) and Tyn ( Thyn ) connects. The distance to the city of Sławno ( Schlawe ) is 12 kilometers and according to Slupsk ( Stolp ) is 14 kilometers. Station is Sycewice to the state railway line 202 Gdańsk - Stargard ( Pomerania ).

The gently undulating landscape around Pałówko is located at about 50 meters above sea level. The eastern district boundary is also the border with the county Slupsk ( Stolp ), which already belongs to the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Neighboring locations are: in the west Pałowo (Alt Paalow ), in the north Pieszcz ( Peest ), and to the east and south Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) and Noskowo ( Notzkow ).

Place name

The old village was formerly called Palow and Paalow and was named after the manor. Following the reorganization of the settlement in the early 19th century the distinction was New Paalow ( Pałówko ) and introduced Old Paalow ( Pałowo ).

History

New Paalow is a settlement that has been created around 1830 as planned on the site of the eastern (Alt ) Paalower good, after the landowner von Below had sold all Paalow to the Prussian state.

By 1945, New Paalow belonged with Old Paalow ( Pałowo ) Nitzlin ( Nosalin ) Peest ( Pieszcz ) and Stemnitz ( Staniewice ) for District Peest. These communities - with the exception of Stemnitz - were connected also to the registry office Peest. The district court district was Schlawe. New Paalow was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.

In 1885, the area extent of new Paalow was 285 acres. By 1925, the area extent of the municipality was increased to 383.2 acres. The number of households was 1885-1939 increased from 64 to 69. Before 1945 there were 14 farms in the place with acreage to five hectares, 24 farms to ten acres, 18 to 20 acres and an operation with a cultivated area of ​​about 20 hectares.

In 1936 the entire town was connected to the public power supply network. Up to this point had only the windmill a private, wind-driven electric generator and electric light. The remaining villagers use kerosene lamps.

Towards the end of World War II occupied on 8 March 1945, the Red Army the place which was then covered with countless refugees from East Prussia. New Paalow was placed under Polish administration. It soon began the immigration of Poles who urged the German locals from their homes and farms. The Germans were expelled to about 1947, pursuant to the so-called Bierut Decrees of New Paalow.

Today is Pałówko ( New Paalow ) a part of the gmina Postomino in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).

Development of the Population

Church

The almost exclusively Protestant inhabitants of New Paalow were before 1945 - as well as the neighboring village Nitzlin - incorporated into the parish Paalow based in Old Paalow. She was an independent church within the parish church Schlawe Peest in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German and Protestant clergyman was Rev. Bernhard gene switch.

Since 1945 Pałówko is predominantly Catholic. The village church is still directed by Pałowo out today - with Zebowo ( Symbow ) - to the parish Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) belongs. It is located in the Dean's Office - Zachód Slupsk ( Stolp -West) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are now part of Holy Cross parish in Slupsk in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

The school building of new Paalow stood before 1945 in the village center at the village pond. It was built in 1908.