Wołcza Wielka

Wołcza Wielka ( German name Volz United ) is a village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It belongs to the urban and rural community Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) in the powiat Bytowski ( Buetow ).

Geographical location

Wołcza Wielka is the Pojezierze Bytowskie ( Bytów Lakeland ) four kilometers west of the former county town Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) on Jezioro Kościelne ( Kirch ) on a side street that Miastko to the state roads 20 and 21, and the province road 206 Sępólno Małe (small Karzenburg ) connects near the state road 25. Station is Miastko to the state railway line No 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

Neighboring communities of Wołcza Wielka are: Kołtki ( Hoelkewiese, already in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship location ) and Bobięcino ( Papenzin ) to the west, Kamnica ( Kamnitz ) and Łodzierz (Hans forest ) in the north, the city Miastko in the east, as well as Wołcza Mała ( Small Volz ) in the south.

History

The village is one of the foundations of the 16th century. In 1541 it was still " a desert field mark ", but already in 1590 called the Kirchenmatrikel 13 farmers and one Kossäten. 1717, however, only five half- peasants are present, their numbers are increasing in the 18th century but still ten Kossäten.

In 1812 the United Volz had 21 houses with 133 inhabitants. The population rose to 1871 to 256 and in 1925 was almost consistently 260

At its founding, the place already in Large ( negestes ) and Klein was ( furderstes ) Volz shared, even if the field mark was used undivided. The families Lettow and Massow were the owners. The Lettowsche proportion was in 1655 in the possession of Thomas Lettow. From him Jacob Massow bought this share. In this family remained - except for brief exceptions - the possession until 1945.

Before 1945, the United Volz was a village in the administrative district Rummelsburg i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. After 1945, the city received the Polish name Wołcza Wielka and is now part of Gmina Miastko in powiat Bytowski the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998: Province Stolp ). Nowadays it hosts 319 people.

Church

The population of Great Volz was before 1945 almost exclusively Protestant. The place has to this day its own church, which was then a branch church in the parish of West Parish Church Rummelsburg. It belonged to the church Rummelsburg county in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

The parish of Great Volz, including the regions of Hans Walde ( Polish today: Łodzierz ) belonged Kamnitz ( Kamnica ) and small Volz ( Wołcza Mała ), counted in 1940 a total of 1089 members of the congregation. The church patronage rights represented the last Rittergutsbesitzer Massow (Large Volz ) and Hasslacher ( Kamnitz ). Last German clergyman before 1945 was Pastor Siegfried Gumpert.

The Church in Great Volz is one of only two village churches of Eastern Pomerania, which had remained Protestant after the Second World War, while the Polish Catholic Church appropriated most Protestant church building in Pomerania. The church is today - as well as Białogard ( Belgard ), Szczecinek ( Pommern ) and Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) - a branch church of the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) of the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. The number of evangelical churchgoers goes back. Protestant worship in the German language found in 2011 once a month, but the continued existence today (2012 ) uncertain.

Since 2000 the church building to rent payment by the Polish Catholic Church is shared reading Sunday Catholic masses there. In 2012 the Catholic priest had to replace the door lock and prevented use by the few remaining Protestant believers.

School

Already in 1730 there were in Great Volz a school, a private school house until 1784th 1937 taught here 1 teacher 32 school children.