Podgórki, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Podgórki ( German German Puddiger ) 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

Podgórki located ten kilometers south of the county town Sławno. It is on a side street, the Żegocino ( blessing Thin) with Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ) on the province road 205 ( Sławno - Polanów ( Pollnow ) - Bobolice ( Bublitz ) ) connects. By 1945 the village had a railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow Schlawer the tracks. The nearest rail connection today is to Sławno to the PKP lines No. 202 ( Stargard ( Stargard ( Pomerania ) ) - Gdansk (Danzig) ) and No. 418 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) - Korzybie ( Zollbrueck ) ).

Neighboring communities of Podgórki are: in the west Święcianowo ( Wiesenthal ) and Żegocino ( blessing Thin), in the north Smardzewo ( Schmarsow ), to the east Ostrowiec ( Wusterwitz ) and in the south Białęcino ( Balenthin ).

Place name

The name German Puddiger (formerly also Pudegger ) distinguishes the village from a twelve kilometer southeastward located Wendish Puddiger ( between 1938-1945 only Puddiger ) in the former county Rummelsburg i Pom .. In Polish, the difference is linguistically refined: Podgórki and Podgóry.

History

In 1325 German Puddiger is mentioned as a fief from Berndt of Heydebreck. Twice the place name then appeared in the context of personal names in Urfehdebriefen on: 1388 with the name Marquart Puddegheres and 1453 with the name Clawes Manduvel tho Puddeguhr.

1784, the village had a Vorwerk, nine farmers, a schoolmaster, a sheep and eight colonists families with a total of 16 hearths ( households ). 1844 bought Gustav Heinrich von Blumenthal, the Good, in whose family it remained. Last owner before 1945 was Horst von Blumenthal.

1818 lived in German Puddiger 157 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1885 to 301, but dropped to 1939 to 252

Until 1945, German Puddiger belonged to the district Felixhof (Polish Uniesław ) and the municipalities blessing Thin ( Żegocino ) and Wiesenthal ( Święcianowo ) for the district of blessing Thin district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Civil ceremony, the village was also with the other two communities, and Wusterwitz ( Ostrowiec ) and Balenthin ( Białęcino ) oriented to the blessing thin out and the competent local court was in Schlawe.

When the troops of the Red Army, the Grabow ( Grabowa ) arrived and broke through to the north, the population of German Puddiger was issued on March 5, 1945 on the flight and arrived to the area of small Runow ( Runowo Sławieńskie ). There they were overtaken by the Soviet troops and forced to return home. Until 1957 lived in the German city that came under the name Podgórki under Polish administration and now part of the gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Church

Parish

Except for two Catholics the population of German Puddiger was in 1939 a Protestant denomination. The village formed a separate parish in which the place was blessing Thin incorporated. As such, German Puddiger was a branch church in the parish Wusterwitz, which included also the places Balenthin and Wiesenthal. The parish was in the church Wusterwitz Schlawe the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 1940 counted 1766 church members, of which 876 belonged to the parish of German Puddiger. The patron was last landowner Horst von Blumenthal. Last German minister was Pastor Heinz Anger.

Since 1945, the inhabitants of Podgórki predominantly Catholic denomination. Furthermore, the place is a branch church in the parish Ostrowiec, the now but also the branch communities Krąg ( Krag ) and Smardzewo belong ( Schmarsow ). The parish is in the deanery Ostrowiec Sławno in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The few Protestant inhabitants are now integrated in the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

Village Church

The church is a simple building made ​​of brick and fieldstone, about the beginning of the 16th century built. Between 1690 and 1705 the tower was renewed. 1718 gave Adam Podewils two altar candlesticks made ​​of tin. A copper baptismal font dates from 1615.

For over 400 years found in the church instead of Protestant worship until it was confiscated after the Second World War in favor of the Catholic Church. This consecrated on July 7, 1947 and re- placed it under the patronage of St. Joseph, the Worker.

School

In 1910, a one-class school was built with teacher's house after the old school house was burned in German Puddiger. It was taught 30-35 children, with the number during the war years rose to 50, as well as the Balenthiner children attended school. Last teacher was Walter Gerth.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Kurt Schwerdtfeger (1897-1966), German sculptor and university teacher
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