Wrześnica, Sławno County
Wrześnica ( German name Freetz ) is a village in the northeast of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Sławno ( Schlawe ) in the powiat Slawienski.
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Geographical location
The farming village Wrześnica located in Pomerania, nine kilometers east of Sławno ( Schlawe ). Neighboring towns of Wrześnica are: Sławsko (Alt Schlawe ) to the west, Pałowo (Alt Paalow ) and Nosalin ( Nitzlin ) in the north, Sycewice ( Zitzewitz ) in the east (already in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ), and Noskowo ( Notzkow ) and Warszkowo (Alt Warschow ) in the south.
The landscape is flat, partly hilly. East of the village is a 60 meters high (above sea level. ) Sand and gravel mountain. North of the so-called Revel Mountain is located in the Freetzer Heath, the northwest of the village extends to the valley of the Wieprza ( Wipper ).
History
About the history of the extended cluster of buildings - the center at the church triangle was called before 1945 - is little known. In the Freetzer Heath you will find a covered hills, encircled by a moat, which was called the castle before 1945 and indicates an early castle.
Freetz belonged from time immemorial to Rügenwalder office. 1652 happened to be there the cities Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) Schlawe and Stolp ( Slupsk ) a convent, to protest in the clashes between Brandenburg and Sweden against the Swedish tax collection.
Around 1780 Freetz was a village with 19 farmers, 1 free mayor, 4 Landkossäten ( including 1 miller and 1 blacksmith ), 3 Büdner, 1 schoolhouse and one shepherd huts at 32 hearths (households). In 1818, there were 289 inhabitants, whose number rose to 1885 to 1023 and in 1939 stood at 900.
By 1945 Freetz part of the official and the civil registry district Notzkow ( Noskowo ) and the District Court area Schlawe. The village was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.
In March 1945, the Red Army troops occupied the place. It came to arbitrary executions and the deportation of many people. Freetz was then placed under Polish administration and renamed Wrześnica. The inhabitants were expelled.
The village is now a part of Gmina Sławno in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). Today Wrześnica has about 760 inhabitants.
Local structure to 1945
Prior to 1945, belonged to the municipality Freest two living spaces:
Church
Parish
The Freetzer population was predominantly Protestant denomination before 1945. The village formed a separate parish, with the parishes Old Schlawe ( Sławsko ) and Stemnitz ( Staniewice ) to the parish of Old Schlawe belonged. It was built until 1928 in the parish of Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ), then in the church Schlawe ( Sławno ) of the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union.
In 1940, belonged from 2904 parish church members 970 to the parish Freetz. Last German minister was Pastor Paul Hollatz.
Since 1945, live in Wrześnica almost exclusively Catholic church members. The village is now a branch of the church at - 1998 newly built - parish Warszkowo (Alt Warschow ) in the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here living evangelical believers associated with the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland with the parishes in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) or Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska.
Village Church
The red brick church with belfry and tower is a neo-Gothic building from the 19th century. Were from the previous church for several liturgical objects ( baptismal bowl brass altar candlesticks ) and wood figures ( Mary, Paul, etc.) available. Above the altar was before 1945 a ceiling painting: in a decorated with stars sky an angel in a blue tunic and waving peace sash with the saying: Glory to God in the highest ....
Until 1945 the church was exclusively Protestant church services. 1945, it was confiscated by the Catholic Church, the consecrated it in the same year under the name Matka Bożej Pocieszenia ( Our Lady of Consolation ) new.
School
The Freetzer elementary school was built around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. She had until 1945 three classrooms and two teachers apartments.
In the village -born personalities
- Johann Cunde ( 1724/25-1759 ), German theologian and educationist.
Traffic
South of the village, the main road runs 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28 ) Gdansk - Szczecin. The place is a railway station on the national railway line 202 Gdańsk - Stargard.