Witno

Witno ( German Wittenfelde, Circle Pommern ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the gmina Gryfice ( Pommern ) in Gryficki powiat ( county Pommern ).

Geographical location

Witno is located three kilometers north of the province road 105 from Świerzno ( Schwirsen ) to Gryfice ( Pommern ) and is on the branch Stuchowo ( Stuchow ) to reach. At the district towns of Kamien Pomorski Gryfice or ( Pomerania ), there are 16 or 19 kilometers, and the Baltic coast in Pobierowo ( Poberow ) is 18 kilometers away.

A rail link has existed since the object of the railway line Pommern- Horst- Treptow the Greifenberger small railway station with the Medewitz (now Polish: Niedźwiedziska ) by the Polish State Railways no more.

History

Wittenfelde was 1816-1945 a village in the district of Pommern i Pom. in the district of Stettin of Prussia | Prussian province of Pomerania. It was part of the official and the civil registry district Ribbekardt (now Polish: Rybokarty ). In 1905, there were 105 people, whose numbers with 110 in 1933 and 104 remained virtually the same in 1939.

Since 1945 Wittenfelde is Polish under the name Witno, is a district within the urban and rural community Gryfice ( Pommern ) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Szczecin ).

Place name

The German name Wittenfelde came before 1945 in Pomerania three times before. The Polish naming is without parallel.

Church

Village Church

The former evangelical Witten Fields church belonged before 1945 to the handsomest churches in the district Pommern i .. The Pom from the 15th/16th. Century church impressed by his valuable interior.

The interior spans a colorful beams, from the floats down a baptismal of 1698.

The altar is provided with lush Arkanthus. In addition to the painted crucifixion are two Mannerist figures of Matthew and Mark. As a crowning of the risen Christ with the flag. Two rich altar barriers show angels with instruments of torture.

The altar is the work of sculptor Rosenberg from Stettin, whose son Erhard Loeffler was the creator of the 23 -meter high altar of the Szczecin Jacobi Church.

Since taking over the house of God by the Catholic Church it is called Kościół Sw. Stanisław Kostka ( St. Stanislaus Kostka ).

Parish

The small town Wittenfelde was predominantly inhabited by the Protestant church members before 1945. The place was Pfarrsdorf for the parish Wittenfelde, the parish Stuchow (now Polish: Stuchowo ) was assigned. To the parish also the places Kambz ( Kępica ) Lüttkenhagen were ( Krzepocin ) Medewitz ( Niedźwiedziska ) Neuhöfe ( Osiecze ) and Staarz ( Starza ).

In 1940, the parish numbered 1,268 church members, of which one half lived in the vicarage and the Branch village. At that time the parish church for Greifenberg county belonged in Ostsprengel the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Since 1945, a predominantly Catholic population lives in Witno. The village is no longer parish seat, but belongs as a daughter church of the parish Stuchowo ( Stuchow ), the Dean's Office to Kamien Pomorski ( Pomerania ) in the Archdiocese of Szczecin - Pomerania belongs to the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members now belong to a parish in the Diocese of Szczecin Wroclaw the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Parish seat is Trzebiatów ( Treptow an der Rega ), where John's Church ( altlutherisch before 1945 ) now is the evangelical church.

Pastor until 1945

Since the Reformation, and until the expulsion officiated in Wittenfeld 22 Protestant clergymen: