Zaleskie, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Zaleskie ( German Saleske, Kashubian Żelesczé ) is a village in the extreme northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 Connected to the place
- 6.1 Literature
- 6.2 footnotes
Geographical Location and Transport
Zaleskie located in Pomerania, north-west of the powiat Słupski directly on the border with West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The village area extends north across the Zaleskie Bagna ( Salesker Moor ) to the Zaleskie Wydmy ( Salesker dunes) on the Baltic coast.
Through the village leads the province road 203 Koszalin ( Koszalin ) and Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) with Ustka connects. The nearest train station is ten kilometers away Ustka to the state railway line 405 Pila ( Pila ) - Ustka. Until 1945 the station was Gallenzin - Saleske (Polish: Golęcin - Zaleskie ) at the then disused railway Schlawe - Stolpmünde ( Sławno - Ustka ).
History
Earlier forms of the name are: Szileske, Sileske, Selleszka, Seleszke and until 1945 Saleske. The Polish form of the name comes Zaleskie in Poland before three times as a place name and twice as the name of lakes.
The historic village of shape after Zaleskie is a village streets. In 1344 is called a of Typhano as the owner, and from 1461 to 1945, it is owned by the von Below. 1480 finds the place a mention in the action items of the Duke Bogislaw X of Pomerania against his mother. 1523 sat Henning von Below and widows of Gerdt and Otto Below on Saleske.
About 1784 Saleske had two knights seats or outworks, a windmill, twelve farmers, eight Kossäten, a forge and a schoolmaster in 73 households.
By 1876 Saleske belonged to the district Schlawe and then became the county Stolp - also located in the administrative region of Pomerania in the Prussian province of Pomerania - affiliated. In 1939 the municipality area was 1751 hectares with a population of 967 inhabitants. Saleske with the villages Brink (now Polish Bren ), Buchenwald ( Zabłocie ) and Salesker beach ( Zalesin ) was office Village, however, belonged to the registry office Dünnow ( Duninowo ) and District Court Stolpmünde ( Ustka ).
Towards the end of World War II broke on March 7, 1945 the Red Army troops from the west into the village. Three days later a Soviet administration was established. In the summer of 1945, then came to Poland Saleske and took over farms and houses. All the villagers were expelled by the Poles in the following period. Saleske was renamed Zaleskie.
576 and 247 displaced from Saleske in the GDR villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The village is now a part of Gmina Ustka in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Slupsk voivodship ). Today, the village has about 400 inhabitants.
Church
Village Church
The Salesker church dates from the late 16th century. The tower bears the date, 1754. Inside the temple was located before 1945 a three-part altarpiece from the first half of the 15th century. The pulpit was a work from the 17th century. The organ builder Christian Friedrich Völkner from the neighboring Dünnow (now Polish: Duninowo ) built here in 1869 the organ. The church took place in the 400-year- Protestant services was expropriated in 1945 in favor of the Catholic Church in Poland.
Parish
The population of Saleske before 1945 was almost exclusively Protestant denomination. In the years 1590 Saleske was a branch church of the parish Dünnow ( Duninowo ), and the local village church was the parish church until 1945. It belonged to the Church Stolp City in Ostsprengel the Church Province of Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
In 1940, the parish Saleske counted 1054 members of the congregation of 3090 in the whole parish. It was under the patronage of the church family von Below, last Walter von Below.
Since 1945, live in Zaleskie predominantly Catholic church members. Zaleskie is - as Możdżanowo ( Mützenow ) - a branch church of the parish Duninowo ( Dünnow ) in the Office of the Dean Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. The Protestant inhabitants now belong to the parish of Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
In 1932 there were in the municipality of Saleske two elementary schools: a four-stage with four classes, three teachers and 162 school children in Saleske itself and a single stage with a teacher and 20 school children in the district Salesker beach (Polish: Zalesin ). Probably the first school in Saleske holder was George Stöckmann ( to 1785 ).
Personality of the place
Sons and daughters of the town
- Claus von Below - Saleske (1866-1939), German diplomat, ambassador to Bulgaria and Belgium
- Gerda von Below (1894-1975), German writer
Associated with the place
- Nicholas von Below (1837-1919), after inheriting commissioner in 1863 on Good Saleske, member of the Prussian House of Lords