Pieszcz
Pieszcz ( German Peest ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Postomino ( Pustamin ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
Pieszcz is located northeast of the county town Sławno directly on the border between the West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Pomeranian (formerly circular border district Schlawe i Pom. / County Stolp ). The place is areall of the Polish national road 6 ( former National Highway 2, now also European Route 28 ) Gdansk - Szczecin at Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) branches off on a side street to the north and Pieszcz out to Tyn ( Thyn ) on the road Sławno - Postomino leads. Station is now only Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk after the station Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) at the former railroad track Schlawe - Stolpmünde due to the dismantling in 1945 no longer exists.
Pieszcz lies in a flat landscape about 25 to 30 meters above sea level. Through the village the Moszczeniczka ( Motz or stumbling Motze ) which, when Bruskowo Wielkie ( United Brüskow ) arises and upstream flows behind Peest in the Wieprza ( Wipper ) opens.
Neighboring town are: to the north Możdżanowo ( Mützenow ) and to the east Swołowo ( Schwolow ) and Gać (Gatz ) - elle already lying in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. In the south Pieszcz borders Pałowo (Alt Paalow ) Nosalin ( Nitzlin ) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) and to the west by TYN ( Thyn ) and Postomino ( Pustamin ).
History
The village Peest (formerly also Peist ) was the seat of the Pomeranian noble family von Below that is already there called 1335. There were two seats knight who had two families from Below. By marrying the Jacob Doering of Krockow 1637 went to these, the greater part of two thirds of the floor area and the total forest cover. With the goods Thyn, Paalow and Nitzlin the fief complex formed a Erbschenkenamt that held the Counts of Krockow.
- Good Peest A: From 1637 to 1945 this estate was owned by the Counts of Krockow whose families the Prussian army asked many officers. The difficult ground conditions made little farming, cattle breeding and dairy farming much more possible. Last Men on Peest A was Hans Graf von Krockow († 1945).
- Good Peest B: This was good until 1847 in Belowschem of possession when it was sold to Johann Ferdinand Zarnke. Because of its extremely difficult soil and weather conditions, it has changed hands nine times in the following years. From 1913 to 1918, William Simpson ( author of the book The barrings, 1937) from George Castle in East Prussia owners ( the experiences on a ride of Peest until after Constantine Opel he took in the 1916 published work in the saddle from the Baltic Sea beach to the Bosporus together), and he bought the agronomist and Livestock Director Joachim Deicke the estate and became the last Lord on Peest B ( † 1945).
In 1818 lived in Peest 536 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1905 to 859 in 1939 and was still 720 (191 households ).
On March 8, 1945, the cast of Peest was carried out by the Red Army. For the people an escape was impossible. Peest came to rest in the Danziger boiler. East and West Prussian families had fled here from their home and were deported to part with the local citizens or other harassment came to. In the summer of 1945, the life returned to normal gradually something. Wilhelm Harder became mayor under Russian command. First, the Germans remained as laborers on the estates. When the Poles made their entrance in the village, tried to escape many German families. A large part, however, remained, and it was possible to normalize life in the place.
The goods Peest A and B were initially merged. The Russian commander lived in the manor house Peest as 1952, the goods were taken over by Poland.
The last German families left the city in 1957, the now Pieszcz was called and now a district of Gmina Postomino in powiat Slawienski in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ) is.
Local structure to 1945
Prior to 1945, belonged to the municipality Peest six villages and Places:
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bogislav Gerd von Below (1726-1786), a Prussian officer, holder of the Pour le Merite
- Hans Kaspar von Krockow (1700-1759), a Prussian officer
District Peest
Peest made before 1945 with the municipalities of Old Paalow, New Paalow, Nitzlin and Stemnitz the Office Peest district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. The last Chief Administrator before 1945 was Karl Böttcher. The Office municipalities ( with the exception of Stemnitz ) were connected also to the registry office Peest. District court area was Schlawe.
Church
Parish
The population of Peest before 1945 was mainly Protestant. The village was formed with Thyn own church community and with the community Paalow Branch (consisting of Old Paalow, New Paalow and Nitzlin ) the parish church in Peest Schlawe the Church Province of Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union. In 1940 the parish Peest counted a total of 2100 members of the congregation. The church patronage was the two manor owners Hans Graf Krockow ( Peest A) and Joachim Deicke ( Peest B).
On 12 June 1941, the rectory burned down. The reconstruction was prohibited by the NSDAP district leader. On the left standing kitchen extension was a space for the pastor set up in which he was staying when he came home from 40 kilometers away Notwohnung in Beßwitz ( county Rummelsburg ) for Peester community.
After 1945 the church life of the Protestant Germans in Peest and environment until 1957 was alive. Numerous volunteer women and men knew it - sometimes even with the consent of the Polish Protestant bishop in Sopot - services and tasks.
Since 1945, most of the inhabitants of Pieszcz is Catholic. On the part of the Catholic Church were held Catholic services since 1977 in the former Evangelical Church. The again today independent parish Pieszcz belongs with the parishes Radosław ( Coccejendorf ) and Staniewice ( Stemnitz ) to the parish Sławsko (Alt Schlawe ) in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Protestant church members are now part of the parish of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
Parish Church
The Peester parish church ( and now the village church of Pieszcz ) was built in the late 15th century, with a gable roof and a massive western tower. 1625 made significant modifications. On the south side of the church choir was Patronatsloge with those of Krockow, including the tomb of those. Von Below and krockow Until the 19th century there was a second chorus of the family von Below. The stalls of Gutsfamilie Deicke stood on the gallery on the north side.
After the war, the Protestant church was confiscated by the Catholic Church. On August 25, 1977 it was rededicated and named Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego ( Holy Exaltation of the Cross ). Present pastor is Cezary Filimon.
Pastor
School
In Peest was before 1945 a primary school with two classrooms and teacher housing with barn and stable. Here taught two teachers - last head teacher and teachers Dahms Notzke.
After 1945 there was for the children of the remaining German residents of Pieszcz and refugees from East and West Prussia, special education, which was held from 1952 to 1957 derived from which Franzen ( Wrząca ) teacher Erna Teschke.