Sieciemin

Sieciemin ( German: Zitzmin ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the urban and rural community Sianów ( Zanow ) in the district of Koszalin ( Koszalin ).

Geographical Location

The farming village Sieciemin located one mile south of State Road 6 ( European Route 28) Szczecin - Gdańsk and is via a spur road from Kawno ( Kaunow ) out of reach. The municipal administrative center Sianów ( Zanow ) twelve miles away, and up to the city of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) is 22 kilometers. The nearest train station Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk is located seven kilometers north.

Sieciemin borders the neighboring communities Karnieszewice ( Karnkewitz ) in the west and Ratajki ( Ratteick ) in the south ( both belong as Sieciemin to Gmina Sianów ) to Pękanino ( Panknin ) in the north and Kusice ( Kuhtz ) to the east ( both belong to the Gmina Malechowo ( Malchow ) ).

Sieciemin is located on a cleared area in the middle of a large forest. Until 1945 the village was for the German proverb: " From umkettet seven mountains is Zitzmin embedded ". Of these seven mountains is with 83 meters of Góra Górka (cucumbers mountain ) is the highest. At his feet also arises from the previously mentioned Zillnitz brook, which flows a few kilometers to the west in the Polnica ( Pollnitz ).

History

It is first mentioned Citzmyn as TafelGUT the castle Zanow (now Polish: Sianów ). In the 14th century it was owned by Martin de Kutzeke Sanow, who called himself from 1347 Martinus of seats jokes. 1386 Zanow belongs to the pen of Pomerania, and 1483 gives Duke Bogislaw X ( Pomerania ) of Pomerania castle and town Zanow with the villages Zitzmin and Kuhtz ( Kusice ) to his chancellor Jürgen Kleist. Beginning of the 16th century came to the monastery Zitzmin Buckow, and after its resolution to the Office Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ).

Around 1780, there are 14 farmers in Zitzmin, 1 mayor, 1 Landkossäten, 2 Büdner and one shepherd huts at a total of 18 fireplaces. 1818, there were 352 people. The population grew until 1895 to 504, but then decreased to 1939 to 434

A devastating fire put 1888/89 Zitzmin almost entirely in ruins. Thus, most of the houses date from the period of reconstruction.

Until 1945 the village belonged with Damerow ( Dąbrowa ), Martin Hagen ( Grabowo ) and Panknin ( Pękanino ) for District Panknin district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Also civilly these communities were connected. Last German municipality mayor of Zitzmin was Willi Hard Behnke.

On March 4, 1945, Russian troops marched into the village. The site was cleared and first brought the population in the area of Pollnow ( Polanów ). She could not return until the summer of 1945 and found an empty and plundered the village. Like the rest of Pomerania, the town was placed under Polish administration, and he has now received the name Sieciemin. It started the immigration of Poles, mainly from areas east of the Curzon Line, which had been placed at their hometowns in general by the competent Soviet commander with the choice either to accept or to emigrate to another nationality into account. The German population was expelled. Under the new Polish name " changed " Zitzmin also by former county Schlawe i Pom. in the administrative region of Pomerania to the powiat Koszaliński in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ). Sieciemin is now a part of the urban and rural community Sianów.

Church

Parish

The population of Zitzmin was almost exclusively Protestant until 1945. There was here an independent parish, but was a branch church of the parish Damerow ( Dąbrowa ). 1939 included the parish Zitzmin 430 church members. The last German clergy was Pastor Hans Meinhof. At that time belonged to the church district Zitzmin Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) of the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Today the inhabitants of Sieciemin are predominantly Catholic. With the takeover of the village by the Poles, the remaining population had innerhaln a few days to accept the Catholic faith and the Polish name. Sieciemin is now parish village, and the parish Sieciemin still include the affiliated churches Dąbrowa ( Damerow ) and Karnieszewice ( Karnkewitz ) and the outstation Pękanino ( Panknin ). The approximately 1600 parishioners counting Sieciemin parish is part of the Dean's Office Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg - Koszalin ) of the Catholic Church in Poland. The few evangelical church members are looked after by the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church in Poland.

Dorf-/Pfarrkirche

The construction of the built of brick neo-Gothic church dates from the mid-19th century. From an older church four altar candlesticks come with the year of 1700. The church was made ​​on November 4, 1946 as a parish church in new service and consecrated in the name Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa.

Pastor

Since the Reformation in 1535 and until 1945 Damerow ( Dąbrowa ) address of the authority for Zitzmin clergy ( qv). Since 1946 is now Sieciemin parish seat, and the following clergymen have worked here:

School

The Zitzminer school was einklassig with a teacher's residence until 1945. The building was built around the turn of the 20th century as a brick building. The number of students stood at 60 children.