Żelazo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Zelazo ( German Selesen, Kashubian Zelazo ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ) in the district of Slupsk ( Stolp ).
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Geographical location
Zelazo is located southeast of the Garder lake in Pomerania embedded in a mountain range, whose highest point is 115 meters high Revekol. Through the town one of Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ) runs next side street, which Wierzchocino ( Virchenzin ) and Witkowo ( Vietkow ) to Choćmirowo (Alt Gutzmerow ) and is there in the province road 213 ( Slupsk ( Stolp ) - Celbowo ( Celbau ) ) opens. Up to the city of Slupsk is just 29 kilometers.
The nearest train station is Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) and is 22 kilometers away to the state railway line 202 Stargard in Pomerania - Gdansk. Before 1945 Selesen breakpoint on the narrow-gauge railway Stolp - Schmolsin was the stumbling tracks.
Place name
Older forms of the name are Zeleza ( 1281 ), Seliso ( 1294 ), Zellesen ( 1493 ), Sellesen ( 1517) and Selesen ( before 1945 ). The 1945 introduced Polish place name Zelazo (word meaning: iron) comes in Poland before several times.
History
Selesen is its historic village form after a village streets. A tomb that was uncovered in 1873 at the southeast of the village, dated from the turn of time. In 1281, the village was first mentioned when Duke Mestwin II the new zugründende Premonstratensian nunnery in Stolp (now Polish: Slupsk ) endowed with the tithes of Zeleza. 1315 confirmed Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg the Casimir Swenzo the possession of the village as a fief.
Selesen was with Wendish Silkow ( Żelkowo, 1938-45 Schwerin height ) and a good part of the Gambin ( Gabino ) a gang Mersches fief. Since the 15th century Selesen until 1945 this family owned. 1717 was Didrich of Bandemer equerry, also wirtschafteten in the village eight pawns and four Kossäten. In 1784 there were also two outworks, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, a water mill, a Büdner and two fishermen's cottages with a total of 27 fireplaces. 1879 received Selesen a brickyard. Selesen was known for his good horse breeding ( warm-blooded ), and for 1885 Rudolph von Bandemer awarded the first National Award.
The manor was in 1938 a total of 1323 hectares and had 435.5 acres of arable land, 132.5 acres of meadows, 46 acres of pasture, 285 acres Holzungen, 420 acres of infertile land, yard and paths as well as 4 acres of water surface. Last owner on Selesen was Alfred von Bandemer, who died on September 13, 1945 on his estate. Since 1933, he was assisted in the management of the estate of his son Rudolph von Bandemer.
The manor house was from the 17th century to 1850, when it was expanded by the addition of a eastern wing. At the northwest end of the village stood on a small hill also the "House Cordula ," a villa construction, which the late Rudolph the 1906 Widow of Bandemer was built as a widow seat. After her death, the house was rented to Selesener families, found in the Third Reich here a year Country camp with young girls stay.
By 1945 Selesen was with the villages Bismarckstein ( Kolischen = Stregonke ), New Strelow (now Polish: Srzelewo ) and Niederhofstraße ( Kuliszki ) incorporated into the county Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. It was part of the official and the civil registry district Schmolsin and the District Court area Stolp. The total municipal area comprised 2266 acres with 391 inhabitants in 1939. After the region was occupied in March 1945 by the Red Army, it was placed after the end of World War II along with all Pomerania under Polish administration. From the spring of 1946 emigrated to Poland, who urged the German locals from their homes and farms. Only the Good retained the Russians. The Germans were subsequently expelled from Selesen because of Bierut Decrees.
Since 1945, the then -called Zelazo place is a part of the gmina Smołdzino in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( Stolp 1975-1998 Voivodeship ). Here now live 312 inhabitants.
Personalities of the local
In the town births
- Joachim Christian von Bandemer (1702-1764), royal - Prussian major general.
Other
- Rudolf von Bandemer (1829-1906), Prussian politician who was the owner of the estate Selesen.
Church
Prior to 1945, were all residents of Selesen invariably Protestant denomination. Was the site once to Great Guard (now Polish: Gardna Wielka ) the parish, he belonged to the parish last Schmolsin ( Smołdzino ) in the church Stolp - old town in the Province of Pomerania Ostsprengel the Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German minister was Pastor Ernst Furstenberg.
Since 1945, the population of Zelazo is almost exclusively Catholic. The place belongs to the parish Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ) in the Office of the Dean Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the parish of Holy Cross Church in Stolp with the branch church in Główczyce in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church.