Zagórze, Białogard County

Zagórze ( German Sager, Belgard ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is part of the rural municipality ( gmina wiejska ) Białogard (Town Belgard ) in the powiat Białogardzki.

Geographical location

Zagórze than twelve kilometers southwest of Białogard in beautiful surroundings between the mountains and forests. The northern boundary of the municipality is the Pokrzywnica ( crooked water). In the northwest of the place of the 63 -meter-high Garnkowa Gore ( Polsberg ) is.

Name

From its scenic location, the name derives probably on the Slavic " Sa - gora " = " behind the mountain " from.

History

In 1628 Sager is mentioned as a fief Podewilser documented. Later the place also belongs to the family of Platov. It was only back in 1794, Frederick William was the sole owner of Podewils, but sells the City 50 years later for 50,000 Taler to Johann Ferdinand Ramthun. Last owner from 1908 to 1945 was residing in the nearby Podewils family Holtzendorff.

The crooked water in the north of Sager once formed the border with the Principality of Pomerania, subsequently, the county Kolberg- Körlin. By Sager formerly led the post of Koszalin in the erstwhile neumarkische city Schivelbein.

In 1867, Sager has 208 inhabitants, 25 houses and 21 outbuildings. Besides farming there were still fish - in the large ponds with carp and crucian carp, trout in the Crooked water.

1928 Gutsbezirk and the district to the rural community of tellers were merged. 1939 lived in the community comprehensive 752.1 hectares 177 inhabitants in 39 households. By 1945, Sager belonged to the district of Belgard ( Persante ) and formed with Kamissow and Natztow the District Kamissow. Civil ceremony, the village belonged to Rarfin, and the local court was in Belgard.

Last German incumbents were the Mayor municipality Albert Schneider, Chief Administrator Richard Schroeter and registrar Otto Elert. The police duties regulated Oberland hunter Charles Bark from Podewils.

On March 3, 1945 Sager was occupied by Soviet troops. From autumn 1945, the German population was expelled. Sager came under the name Zagórze to Poland and became part of the rural community Białogard.

Church

Sager belonged until 1945 to the parish church Rarfin in Belgard county ( Ecclesiastical Province of Pomerania ), the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. The church patronage by Sagers took Rittergutsbesitzer Holtzendorff true. For parish Rarfin were 1940 total of 1412 members of the congregation, which were last serviced by Pastor Günther Gerhard Henning.

School

At the 1867 -built school of Sager informed the headmaster Mahnke, Kirchhoff, Ruhmke and - most recently - Leschke.