Zielenica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Zielenica ( German name Söllnitz ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Malechowo ( Malchow ) in a circle Sławno ( Schlawe ).
Geographical location
Zielenica located 13 kilometers southwest of the county town Sławno at a connecting road that leads from Lejkowo ( Leikow ) to Nowy Żytnik ( New Mill ) on the province road 205 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) - Sławno - Bobolice ( Bublitz ) ) leads. Leikow was before 1945, the railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track Schlawe - Pollnow - Sydow Schlawer the tracks.
Borders the following municipalities: to the north Podgórki ( German Puddiger ), to the east Drzeńsko ( Drenzig ), in the south Bożenice ( Bosens ) and to the west Lejkowo.
Zielenica is located on the eastern slope of the mentioned earlier on the Dars - ground moraine ridge at an altitude of about 22 meters above sea level. The highest peak south of the village is 67 meters.
Place name
Previous names of the village are Sellnitz and Selnitz. About the origin is not known. The Polish name Zielenica comes as a village name once before in the Warmia - Mazury.
History
The historic news of the scale in north-south direction road village are scarce. By 1300, there should have been a princely dominion. At that time it was part of the fief Nemitz (now Polish: Niemica ) and owned by the family of Ramel. 1620 buys Joachim von Podewils two farmers from Söllnitz. Beginning of the 18th century is sold in the possession of the von Kleist, to 1712 Georg Kaspar von Kleist Söllnitz at Ernst Bogislav Podewils the place.
Söllnitz had ten hearths in 1784 at six farmers. 1818, there were 69 people, in 1885 there were already 309, and 1939 their number was 222
Söllnitz with the corresponding Born district Sprang (now Polish: Potok ) belonged before 1945 to the District Krag ( Krag ), to the registry office area Soltikow ( Sulechowo ) and the district court Schlawe. The village was i Pom district Schlawe. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania.
Beginning in March 1945 invaded Red Army troops in the Söllnitzer area. A few months later the place was under Polish sovereignty and was Zielenica as part of Gmina Malechowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).
Church
Prior to 1945, were the Söllnitzer almost exclusively Protestant denomination. The village had no church of their own, but had the parish small Soltikow ( Sulechówko ) attached, which in turn was part of the parish Nemitz ( Niemica ). It belonged to the church district Rügenwalde the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union.
The congregation small Soltikow counted in 1940 over 1400 church members and made so 2/3 of the parish from Nemitz. Last German clergyman was Rev. Martin Voßberg.
Since 1945, the inhabitants of Zielenica predominantly Catholic denomination. Even today Sulechówko ecclesiastical center of the village, now raised to an even own parish, which includes 2530 church members and the communities associated with the branch Niemica ( Nemitz ) and Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ). The current parish Sulechówko part of the deanery in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg Sławno of the Catholic Church in Poland.
The few Protestant inhabitants belong to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical - Augsburg Church in Poland