Tokary, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Tokary ( German name Deutschrode ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Sławno ( Schlawe ) in a circle Sławno.

Geographical location

Tokary located five kilometers north of the county town Sławno and is accessed via a private road which leads from Sławno after Postomino ( Pustamin ) and from the branches a side road just after Tokary. The nearest train station was Coccejendorf ( station name Polish Radosław Sławieńskie ) on the former and now disused railroad track Sławno - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

Neighboring towns of Tokary are: in the west Radosław ( Coccejendorf ), in the north Staniewice ( Stemnitz ), to the east Wrześnica ( Freetz ) and in the south Sławsko (Alt Schlawe ).

Place name

The German place name Deutschrode marked, that it was a settlement of the Treaty of Versailles from West Prussia expelled Germans on a cleared area of the former state forest Old Krakow ( Stary Kraków) is.

History

The village founding represented a measure under the Empire Settlement Act of 11 August 1919: about ten displaced families from West Prussia were given the opportunity to establish itself on cleared areas of a national forest, a new rural existence. This was to create initially only under primitive conditions and heavy physical labor. But gradually emerged farms and the community grew: in 1939, there were 106 people.

The - for the German harvester population - second expulsion began in 1945 and was completed by 1947. Deutschrode came under Polish administration and is now a district of Gmina as Tokary Sławno in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).

Before 1945 Deutschrode belonged to the district of Old Krakow ( Sławsko ), also to the local registry office, but for the district court Schlawe. The place was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.

Church

The inhabitants of Deutschrode before 1945 were predominantly Protestant denomination. The village was incorporated into the parish of Old Schlawe ( Sławsko ), which belonged to the church Schlawe, before the church circle Rügenwalde, in the church of the Church of the Old Prussian province of Pomerania Union since 1928.

Since 1945, live in Tokary mostly Catholic population. They belong to the 1986 re-established - now Catholic - Sławsko parish in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Evangelical Church members are now the parishes in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) or Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland assigned.

School

Extracurricular was Deutschrode before 1945 also oriented to Old Schlawe.