Widzino
Widzino ( German Veddin ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Kobylnica ( Kublitz ) in the district of Slupsk ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Widzino located in Pomerania, five kilometers southwest of the county town of Slupsk on earlier so-called Kamenz Brook and by the Polish State Road 21 ( former German Empire Road 125) Slupsk - Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) via the branch Kobylnica achieve. The village has a railway station on the national railway line No 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).
Neighboring municipality of Widzino are: in the west Reblino ( Reblin ), in the north Bolesławice (Ulrich field ), to the east and south Kobylnica Słonowice ( United Schlönwitz ).
History
Widzino, its form a line village, is one of the oldest documented known villages of the country trip. In 1281 Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania gave the village - then called Vidino - the monastery Belbuck as equipment for the convent of the Premonstratensian in Stolp.
During the Reformation in 1522 Prince Bogusław X of Pomerania took the goods of the monastery in its administration. Veddin was under then until 1810 the Office Stolp.
In 1784 Veddin had with the mayor 10 farmers, 2 Kossäten, 5 Büdner ( including 1 blacksmith ) and 1 schoolmaster at a total of 21 fireplaces. In 1853 it was bought by Friedrich Rieck, and his family remained in the last 232 -acre manor to Aufsiedlung in the 30s of the 20th century.
On May 17, 1939 lived in Veddin 593 inhabitants in 137 households. The village belonged to Noble Kublitz ( Kobylniczka ) (Royal ) Kublitz ( Kobylnica ), Lossin ( Losino ) and Sanskow ( Zajączkowo ) for District Lossin in the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. Also, the competent registry office was based in Lossin. The district court area was Stolp. The municipal area was 985 hectares. Veddin was the only residence of the community. The last mayor was Veddiner Franz Albrecht.
Towards the end of World War II occupied on 7 March 1945, the Red Army the village. The villagers had their place on the completely clogged by columns of refugees roads can no longer before leaving. As of July 1945 Poland appeared in the village and seized by little the houses and farmsteads. Only the farm estate was provisionally Russian kolkhoz. Veddin was renamed Widzino. On 14 and December 15, 1945 brought Polish militia farmers at 6 clock from unprepared and drove them together at the inn of the village. No one was allowed to take anything. From the inn, the farmers had to march to the freight depot in Stolp; Sick and elderly were loaded onto cars there. From the freight depot of the villagers were deported in cattle cars to the west.
291 and 141 displaced from Veddin in the GDR villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Widzino is now become (until 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ) for Gmina Kobylnica in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Here now live 535 inhabitants.
Church
Before 1945, the villagers were all Protestant. Veddin belonged to the parish Kublitz ( Kobylnica ) and thus to the parish of St. John's Church and Castle Stolp. It was in the church Stolp county -level city in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Friedrich Pieper.
Since 1945 the inhabitants of Widzino are predominantly Catholic. The place is still one church after Kobylnica where - now Catholic - parish has its headquarters. It is located in the Dean's Office Zachod Slupsk ( Stolp -West) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. Protestant church members now belong to the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
The elementary school in Veddin was dreiklassig before 1945. Here then taught two teachers, 89 children. The last German teachers were Charles Syring and Ernst Henke.