Sowinko

Sowinko ( German New Zowen ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the municipality Polanów ( Pollnow ) in the powiat Koszaliński ( Koszalin ).

Geographical location

Sowinko located 23 kilometers southeast of the county town of Koszalin and 14 kilometers northwest of Polanów ( Pollnow ) on a wide cleared area, reach their highest peaks of up to 97 meters above sea level. The transport links via Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) on the province road 206 that leads from Koszalin on Polanów after Miastko ( Rummelsburg ). Until 1945 there was about seven kilometers south to Natzlaff (now Polish: Nacław ) connection to the railway line ( Koszalin - ) Natzlaff - Pollnow the Schlawer tracks. A narrow path connects Sowinko ( New Zowen ) in the Gmina Polanów with Sowno (Alt Zowen ) in the Gmina Sianów ( Zanow ).

The field mark of Sowinko borders the neighboring villages Kościernica in the West, Powidz ( Peace Village ) and Sowno with Krytno ( Kritten ) in the north and east, and Nacław in the south. In parts, the boundary of the Polnica ( Pollnitz ) is formed which flows north-west of Sowinko and in the Jezioro Jamno ( Lake Jamno ) opens north of Koszalin.

Place name

The German place name New Zowen (dating back to the Slavic sowa = owl) has arisen as a boundary to Zowen, then Alt Zowen.

History

The exact time of installation of the village New Zowen is not known. But he is likely to be reforms to emancipation from the stone -Hardenberg and the settlement be affected by this. 1784 was not yet the place. In 1864, however, been here since 236 inhabitants, whose number rose to 395 in 1905 and 1939, dropped to 355.

By 1945, New belonged Zowen with his district Stubbe Kathen to the Official District Zowen based in Old Zowen. In addition to old and new Zowen belonged to that office, nor district municipalities Peace Village (now Polish: Powidz ) and Latzig ( Laski ). The Office was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Even in a civil ceremony, the communities were connected.

On March 1, 1945 the Red Army troops occupied the village. A few days later, many villagers were deported to the Soviet Union. From the autumn of 1945 Polish families took over the farms, and the resettlement of locals began in April 1946. Newly Zowen was Sowinko as part of Gmina Polanów in powiat Koszaliński the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Church

New Zowen belonged until 1945 with Old Zowen (now Polish: Sowno ) Kritten ( Krytno ) and Peace Village ( Powidz ) to the Protestant church Zowen that ( Kościernica ) was itself a branch church in the parish Kösternitz. This belonged to the Church of Pomerania ( Koszalin ) of the Ecclesiastical Province of Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Wilhelm thrust ring.

Today Sowinko is part of the Catholic parish Kościernica ( Kösternitz ), which in turn branch church of Parrei Szczeglino ( Steglin ) is. It belongs to the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. For Protestant inhabitants of the parish Sowinko Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland is responsible.

School

The room school stood before 1945 in the middle of the settlement on the village street of the way to Peace Village ( Powidz ). Last German teacher was Erich Nötzel.