Rokity, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Rokity ( German United Rakitt, Kasch. Wieldżé Roczitczi ) is a village in the Polish Kashubian - Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural municipality Czarna Dąbrówka ( Black Damerkow ) in Bytowski powiat ( county Buetow ).
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Geographical Location and Transport
Rokity located in Pomerania, about 26 kilometers northeast of the county town Bytów ( Buetow ). Through the village runs the province road 211 Nowa Dąbrowa ( Neu Damerow ) on the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) connects with Żukowo ( Zuckau ) along Route 20.
By 1945, rail connection via the station consisted Helenenhof (now Polish: Kostroga ) on the railway line Lauenburg - Buetow ( Lębork - Bytów ). Between 1920 and 1939, the eastern boundary of the municipality was also the German -Polish border ( Polish Corridor ).
Place name
Older forms of the name are Rokitke ( 1377 ) and Rakitken (1601 ). The Polish place name Rokity comes once before in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
History
Great Rakitt was one of the formerly aristocratic estates in Pomerania. Already in 1377 it is mentioned. 1505 was a Pirchsches, later a Münchowsches fief.
Of the Münchows United Rakitt went on after several changes of ownership in 1781 on the Captain Sigmund Adam from wild mountain in whose family it remained until 1835. At that time it had a Vorwerk, five farmers, two half farmers, four Kossäten, a schoolmaster, on the field mark the Vorwerk Philippsruhe with a forge and six other skating - for a total of 38 fireplaces.
In 1861 Rollmaus Zabel acquired from the Neumark United Rakitt. The last owners were then 1893 Joachim Lüttke and then Landesbank AG. in Berlin.
On June 14, 1920 a commission in the United Rakitt which established the German -Polish border because of the Versailles Treaty. Were cut by the boundaries of nine farmers their property, not to mention friendship and kinship between many families.
In 1910, the United Rakitt counted 363 inhabitants. In 1933 their number was 387, and by 1939 it had 314
Until 1945, the United Rakitt belonged to the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. It was in the office and the civil registry district Bochowke ( 1937-45 High Linde, today Polish: Bochówko ) incorporated and was in the District Court area Lauenburg in Pommern ( Lębork ).
Towards the end of World War II was occupied by Soviet troops in 1945 and soon found after the war, together with all Pomerania under Polish administration Large Rakitt March 8. Later, Poland invaded the village and took possession of the houses and farmsteads. Great Rakitt was renamed Rokity. The villagers have been displaced.
59 expelled from United Rakitt villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 176 in East Germany.
The village was from 1945 to 1954 the headquarters of the eponymous municipality Rokity country, but today belongs to the Gmina Czarna Dąbrówka in powiat Bytowski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). The town now has about 460 inhabitants.
Church
Parish Church
On the occasion of a general church visitation of 1891 it was decided to build a church for large Rakitt. In 1907 the foundation stone was laid, and in 1909 the construction of the church was completed - as a simple yet dignified timber-stone construction. By 1945, a Protestant church, it was then confiscated by the Catholic Church. This newly consecrated it and gave him the name Kościół Sw. Andrzeja Boboli ( " St. Andrew's Bobola Church ").
Parish / parish
The time Protestant parish United Rakitt was established on April 1, 1909. Until then, there was a parish official connection to Mickrow (now Polish: Mikorowo ). Already in 1894 were for the area of the later parish parochial vicars specially been sent, the first in Kosemühl ( Kozin ), then in small Rakitt ( Rokitki ) and later lived in the United Rakitt. With the establishment of a parish, a parish was established.
Parish United Rakitt, which was assigned to the church Stolp - old town in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Union Pomerania belonged from 1909 to 1945 the towns of:
- Bochow ( Bochowo )
- Bochowke ( 1937-45 High Linde ) ( Bochówko )
- Dambee ( 1937-45 oaks ) ( Dabie )
- Gliesnitz ( Gliśnica )
- Great Rakitt ( Rokity )
- Neuhof ( Rokicki Dwór )
- Small Rakitt ( Rokitki )
- Neurakitt ( Rokiciny )
- Saviat ( 1937-45 lake ) ( Zawiaty )
- Wottnogge ( 1937-45 Mühlethal ) ( Otnoga )
In 1940 the parish of Great Rakitt counted 1455 members of the congregation. The church patronage was up to the state authorities.
Be 1945 live predominantly Catholic church members in the area of the formerly Protestant parish. The place remained the parish seat, but part of the present parish Rokity to the newly formed Office of the Dean Łupawa ( Lupow ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. A branch church was built in Jasień ( Jass ).
For parish includes the villages of:
- Baranowo ( Bahr break)
- Bochowo ( Bochow )
- Bochówko ( Bochowke, 1937-45 Linde High )
- Brzezinka ( Bresinke )
- Dęby
- Gliśnica ( Gliesnitz )
- Kłosy ( dumplings )
- Łupawsko ( green forest )
- Mydlita ( Buchenwald )
- Nowa Wies ( Neuendorf )
- Otnoga ( Wottnogge, 1937-45 Mühlethal )
- Przylaski ( Glashütte )
- Rokiciny ( Neurakitt )
- Rokitki (small Rakitt )
- Soszyca ( Neukrug )
- Zawiaty ( Saviat, 1937-45 lake view)
Today, living in Rokity evangelical church members belong to the parish Church of the Cross Parish in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland, were kept in Rokity services from where until the beginning of the 21st century. Now, however, is the parish seat next Lębork ( Lauenburg in Pomerania ).
Pastor until 1945
Between 1894 and 1909 officiated in the later parish of Great Rakitt as parochial vicars:
- August Theodor Frit Bock, 1894-1895
- Max Emil Oskar Kamrath, 1895
- Paul Emil Karl Lentz, 1895-1897
- Samuel Otto Bogislaw Plantiko, 1897-1900
- Wilhelm August Gotthilf Gabler, 1900-1901
- Otto Johannes Andreas Dibbelt, 1901-1905
- Theodor Otto Erich Sendler, 1906-1909
From 1909 officiated as pastor in the United Rakitt:
- Theodor Otto Erich Sendler, 1909-1912
- Max George Juhr, 1912-1919
- George King, 1919-1929
- NN. Schneider, 1931-1933
- Wilhelm Rieck, 1933-1940
- Kurt Hübner, 1940-1945
Against priest Rieck, who provided his first pastorate here, ordered the Secret State Police in Koszalin on June 29, 1939, a residence ban for border counties Stolp, Buetow, Lauenburg and bustle castle on the grounds that it disagreed with the Nazi state and the Jewish family Tabor in Great Rakitt Contact entertain. Rieck was then removed from the parish of Consistory in Szczecin August 8, 1940.
School
Already at the end of the 18th century there were in the United Rakitt a schoolmaster. In 1932 the three-stage two elementary school teachers taught in three classes 75 school children. The last German teachers were Paul Lemke and William Nitz.