Powidz, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Powidz ( German Peace Village ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship in the community Polanów ( Pollnow ) in the powiat Koszaliński ( Koszalin ).

Geographical location

Powidz located in the northeastern area of the circle Koszalin, 27 kilometers from the district town and 20 kilometers from Polanów. The village is located off the side street Sianów ( Zanow ) - Ratajki ( Ratteick ) - Polanów and is the branch Sowno (Alt Zowen ) to reach. By 1945, five kilometers away Kösternitz was (now Polish: Kościernica ) railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track Koszalin - Natzlaff ( - Pollnow ) of Koszalin - Belgarder tracks.

Powidz is surrounded by the neighboring villages Kościernica in the west, and Ratajki Sierwakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) in the north, the east and Sowno Sowinko ( New Zowen ) in the south. Around the village the landscape is flat wavy and rises to the south of. There is also the highest elevation of the site with 119 meters.

Place name

The German name Peace Village to have been chosen because you have a peaceful settlement of people who help each other imagined. The off-side position of the place speaks well for peace and quiet in the village, if you literally said in Schlawer country: "It is as quiet as in the peace villages church " - and that, although there was no church in the Peace Village.

History

Peace Village was at the beginning of the 19th century as a settlement of Old Zowen (now Polish: Sowno ) from created. At some gables the model years 1803 and 1810 were still visible before 1945. The settlers are from villages of the district Schlawe ( Damerow (now Polish: Dąbrowa ) Karnkewitz ( Karnieszewice ) Zitzmin ( Sieciemin ), Nemitz ( Niemica ) and Sydow ( Żydowo ) ) and the circle Koszalin ( Crampe ( Krępa ) Dubbertech ( Dobrociechy ), Gust ( Gozd ) and Kurow ( Kurowo ) ) have come.

In 1818 lived in the comprehensive nearly 300 hectares of community peace village 308 inhabitants, but their number decreased to 1939 to 199.

A great fire destroyed 15 1892 farms in the eastern part of the village. The arsonist was caught and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The reconstruction took place relatively quickly.

Peace village belonged until 1945 with Old Zowen ( Sowno ) and Kritten ( Krytno ) Latzig ( Laski ) and New Zowen for official and civil registry district Zowen based in Old Zowen. The office belonged to the district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.

On March 3, 1945 the Red Army troops marched in a peace village - with cruel circumstances, abuse and destruction. Early in 1946, took over the Polish administration, the village, and the German population was expelled in June 1946. Peace Village was Powidz as a part of the gmina Polanów and moved from Schlawe in the powiat Koszaliński of Koszalin Voivodeship, from 1998, the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Church

In peace village population was predominantly Protestant population before 1945. The church stood in Old Zowen (now Polish: Sowno ), and the villages of Old Zowen with Kritten ( Krytno ) and New Zowen ( Sowinko ) formed with Peace Village, the self-employed - after all, 1940 1006 church members counting - parish Zowen. She was filial community in the parish Kösternitz ( Kościernica ) in the Church of Pomerania ( Koszalin ) in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Wilhelm thrust ring.

Today the inhabitants of Powidz mainly belong to the Catholic Church in Poland. God's place of employment is now Kościernica ( Kösternitz ), which is now Filialort the Parafia Szczeglino ( Steglin ) in the Office of the Dean Polanów ( Pollnow ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg. The Protestant church members in charge of the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

The first peace villages school burned down in 1902. In 1904 a new building could be constructed.