Wiatrowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Wiatrowo ( German Viatrow, 1938-45 Steinfurt, Kashubian Wiatrowò ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical location
Wiatrowo liegtin Pomerania, about nine kilometers north of Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) on the left bank of the Lupow (Polish: Łupawa ). Up to the southwest lying county town Slupsk ( Stolp ) is 26 kilometers. About a spur road from the village to the Będziechowo ( Bandsechow ) to Damno ( dams ) and Potegowo ( Pottangow ) is connected leading side street. The nearest railway station is on the railway line Damnica of Stargard in Pomerania to Gdańsk.
Place name
Forms of the name are: Vatrow ( 1274), Vetrowe ( 1283), Viattro ( 1426), Viatrow ( until 1937 ), Steinfurt ( 1938-45 ) and from 1945 Wiatrowo. The German name Viatrow occurs only here, the Polish name Wiatrowo appears once in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
History
Wiatrowo was his historic village of shape after a large Angersdorf. In 1274, Duke gave Mestwin II of Pomerania and the villages Viatrow Liepen (now Polish: Lipno ) the monastery Kolbatz. In 1476 it was a fief Stojentinsches 1690, it went on to Ewald von Puttkamer, and 1695 of the Galbrecht.
In 1774 the property went to Christoph von Pirch, who sold it to William Leopold of Mitzlaff. Around 1784 there was a Vorwerk, four farmers, three Kossäten, a schoolmaster and a total of eleven households.
Even in 1834, the called of Mitzlaffs on Viatrow. After that, it had various owners, the last owner before 1945 was Martin Stiff sand.
In 1910 lived in Viatrow 168 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 167, and in 1939 was one of Steinfurt 198 inhabitants.
By 1945 Viatrow which was from 1938 Steinfurt was a place in the district of Stolp in Pomerania in the administrative district of the Prussian province of Pomerania. The municipality of the two villages belonged Alter Krug (also called sub Viatrow ) and Viatrow Good ( also High Viatrow ). She was in the official and the civil registry district Bewersdorf (now Polish: Bobrowniki ) and was incorporated in the gendarmerie Hebrondamnitz ( Damnica ) and in the District Court area Stolp ( Slupsk ).
On March 8, 1945 Steinfurt was occupied by Soviet infantry fight. In the summer of 1945, Poland entered the village. The population was expelled from mid-May 1947. Viatrow (or Steinfurt ) became Polish under the name Wiatrowo and is now a part of Gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Voivodeship Stolp ) at 79 residents.
Church
Before 1945, the population of Viatrow alias Steinfurt was predominantly Protestant. The village was one of thirteen surrounding villages (Polish today: Damno ) to the parish church in the dams were Stolp - old town in the Province of Pomerania Ostsprengel the Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Magnus Erdmann.
After 1945 - almost without exception Catholic population, the parish official connection of Wiatrowo to Damno ( dams ) has remained. The parish is now in the deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) incorporated in the diocese Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to a branch church Główczyce ( Glowitz ) of the Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
As early as 1784 a schoolmaster named in Viatrow. In the 1932 stage 28 elementary school children were taught by a teacher. Last German school governor was Richard knitt.