WrzÄ…ca, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Wrząca ( German Franzen ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Kobylnica ( Kublitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).

Geographical location

Wrząca is the end point of a road that at Reblino ( Reblin ) along Route 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) Gdańsk (Danzig) - branches Szczecin ( Stettin) between Slupsk and Sławno ( Schlawe ) and runs in a southerly direction. Under the name of the place Wrząca Pomorska railway station on the national railway line No. 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).

Neighboring towns of Wrząca are: Słonowice ( United Schlönwitz ) in the north, Kuleszewo ( Kulsow ) in the east, Zagórki ( Sagerke ) and Ściegnica ( Ziegnitz ) in the south and Kczewo ( Egsow ) in the west.

History

Three barrows and an old stone grave evidence of a prehistoric occupation of the site. The first historical news about Franzen, however, dates only from 1409, as is mentioned in a letter of atonement name Curd Manduwel of Vrantzen. Until the 18th century Franzen was a fief of Kleis Tsches. There were two knights seats, because at times appear in the 16th century, the Puttkamer and Krockow on parts of Franzen. Von Below and in the 17th century 1773 then the Colonel Joachim Heinrich Reinhold von Krockow is invested with the whole village. Subsequently changed ownership several times until he finally at the end of the 19th century property of the family of Puttkamer was who owned it until 1945.

In 1818, Franzen counted 215 inhabitants. The number rose to 1885 to 653 in 1939 and amounted to 641

By 1945, the town belonged to the district of Dubberzin ( Dobrzęcino ) in the district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. Civil ceremony Franzen was oriented to Besow ( Bzowo ), and the local court that was in Schlawe.

At the end of World War II, on March 5, 1945 was the village trek command. The inhabitants began your flight, which was very difficult in view of the congested roads. They reached Zitzwewitz ( Sycewice ) Pustamin ( Postomino ) and Wobesde ( Objazda ), where they were crushed by Soviet troops and sent back home. Here, many residents were deported to Russia, some to Siberia, where they had to perform labor services. In November 1947 Franzen was transferred to the Polish administration. The German population was evacuated - a few were not released until 1957. In 1975, the town is part of the Slupsk voivodship. With the dissolution of the Province of the place in 1999 part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship we were in this part of the Gmina Kobylnica in powiat Słupski

Local structure to 1945

Prior to 1945, belonged to Franzen three villages and Places:

Church

Before 1945, the population of Franzen was predominantly Protestant. The village was in the parish, the parish of Great Schlönwitz ( Słonowice ) and belonged to the Church Schlawe the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.

Since 1945, the inhabitants of Wrząca majority of Catholic denomination. Vicarage is still Słonowice, is associated with the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Evangelical Church members are now managed by the Parish Office in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

The school of Franzen, situated in the village, was built around 1800. In 1932, two teachers taught here, until then, the school was einklassig.