Święcianowo

Święcianowo ( German Wiesenthal ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ).

Geographical location

Święcianowo located 13 kilometers southwest of the county town Sławno ( Schlawe ) on the northwestern edge of the glacial valley, through the meadows the Grabowa ( Grabow ) flows. The village can be reached by a road that branches off at Bobrowice (Alt Bewersdorf ) from the national road 6 and Żegocino ( blessing Thin) and Lejkowo ( Leikow ) to Laski ( Latzig ) Jacinki ( Jatzingen ) and Polanów ( Pollnow ) leads. By 1945, the place was a railway station on the now disused railway line small Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow Schlawer the tracks.

Neighboring towns of Święcianowo are: in the west Sulechówko (small Soltikow ), in the north Żegocino, in the east Podgórki ( German Puddiger ) and in the south Lejkowo on the opposite bank of the Grabow.

Place name

The German name of the village of the 3.5 kilometer road village is borrowed with the wide view after Leikow and small Soltikow the name of the landscape in the meadow valley Grabow. Before 1859 there was talk of the town only as a blessing Unterthiner colony, although had been called upon its establishment the place Marienthal after the wife of the founder.

History

Today's Święcianowo was founded in the last quarter of the 18th century of blessing from Thin. 1772 was the then owner of blessing Thin Carl Caspar von Kleist ( 1734-1808 ) royal grace funds with which he made land reclaimed and 2 farmers and 8 Büdnerstellen docked. After 1834 the city experienced a renaissance under the squire met Wilhelm Gustav Heinrich Ernst von Blumenthal a brisk upturn.

1818, there were 229 people, the number rose to 1885 to 450 in 1939 and amounted to 338 main industry was through the meadows the dairy industry.

Before 1945, Wiesenthal was with blessings Thin and German Puddiger to the Official blessing thin and was a civil ceremony is also based there. The district court was in Schlawe. At that time the village was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.

In March 1945, the occupation of the village was carried out by the Red Army. The residents had gone on the run towards Stolp and had to return again ten days later. The last German citizens were allowed until 1958 to leave the village and move to the west. Wiesenthal had become as Święcianowo part of Gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Church

Wiesenthal's inhabitants were all before 1945 to the Protestant church. The village was incorporated into the parish Wusterwitz ( Ostrowiec ), parish seat, however, was German Puddiger. It belonged to the church Schlawe the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Heinz Anger.

Since 1945, the population of Święcianowo is predominantly Catholic. Furthermore, the village belongs to - but now Catholic - parish Ostrowiec deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. The Protestant inhabitants in charge of the parish in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) of the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

In the years 1925 and 1926, a two-class elementary school was built with teacher's apartment in Wiesenthal. Before the children went to school blessing Thin. There were taught 60 children. Last German teacher was Fritz Vogel.