Boginia – Wikipedia

Goddess Is a village in Poland in the Łódź Voivodeship. The place belongs to the Gmina Novosolna.

In 1795 – the area had reached Prussia two years earlier with the second Polish division as part of Southern Prussia – the three German villages of Głogowiec, Głąbie and Boginia were founded by the Skoszewy Gut Skoszewy two years earlier. [first] According to other information, the German settlement of the region only began in 1796. [2] The population of the place and came from Pomerania. [3]

From 1798 to at least 1801 there was a school in the nearby Głąbie, which was also attended by the children from Głogowiec and Boginia. [first] [4]

In 1807 the region became part of the newly founded Duchy of Warsaw, and from 1815 it belonged to congress poles.

In 1825 there were 12 settlers in Boginia with 58 inhabitants (including servants), ten years later there were only 11 fireplaces, 10 of whom were occupied by foreign colonists who had 59 relatives. At that time, the place, together with Załęże, Skoszewy, Głogowiec, Głąbie, Skoszewka and Grabina, in which German settlers also lived, was part of Warszewice. [5]

With the founding of the Evangelical parish Brzeziny in 1826, Boginia was parish. [6]

In 1839 the teacher Daniel Redlow was mentioned in Boginia, so there was a school directly in town for some time [2] [7] (Later Daniel Redlow was in Jasień [8] und Marianów [9] employed). From 1842 the children from Boginia visited the school in Głogowiec. [7]

From 1859 to 1954, Boginia belonged to the Gmina (municipality) Lipiny. [ten] [11] [twelfth]

Some of the German families emigrated to Wolhynia in the 1870s [7] , the releasing courtyards passed to Polish families.

During the First World War, the place was in the middle of the battle area of ​​the Battle of Łódź. Three courtyards burned down during this time. It is not known whether people were harmed. [13]

In 1935, around 60 Germans still lived in Boginia. [14]

At the time of the German occupation in World War II, Boginia belonged to the Reichsgau Wartheland. [15] [twelfth]

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  1. a b Albert Breyer: The German villages of the Lodz area area with map German settlements of the area of ​​Lodz , in: German monthly books in Poland, magazine for history and present of Germanism in Poland, year 2 (12), Issue 5/6, November/December 1935, p. 199.
  2. a b Eduard Kneifel: The parish of Brzeziny. For the 100th anniversary celebration of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Brzezine on September 10, 1933 , Brzeziny 1933, S. 42.
  3. Albert Breyer: The German villages of the Lodz area area with map German settlements of the area of ​​Lodz , in: German monthly books in Poland, magazine for history and present of Germanism in Poland, year 2 (12), Issue 5/6, November/December 1935.
  4. Roman-Catholic church register of the church in Skoszewy Stare, LDS microphil No. 904348. Baptism entries by children of the teacher Kernpopf from 1799 and 1801.
  5. Oskar Kossmann: The Germans in Poland since the Reformation. Marburg/Lahn: J.G.-Herder-Institut 1978, p. 371.
  6. Eduard Kneifel: The Evangelical-Lutheran Community of Brzezine near Lodz/Poland 1829-1945 , Vierkirchen/Schwabach 1983, p. 9.
  7. a b c Eduard Kneifel: The parish of Brzeziny. For the 100th anniversary celebration of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Brzezine on September 10, 1933 , Brzeziny 1933, S. 43.
  8. Eduard Kneifel: The parish of Brzeziny. For the 100th anniversary celebration of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Brzezine on September 10, 1933 , Brzeziny 1933, S. 74.
  9. Eduard Kneifel: The parish of Brzeziny. For the 100th anniversary celebration of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Brzezine on September 10, 1933 , Brzeziny 1933, S. 75.
  10. The affiliation according to the stated sources for the end of the 19th century and 1933 to 1945, which results from the fact that the location may have belonged to this GMINA throughout the period.
  11. Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, Band I, Seite 278 .
  12. a b Eduard Kneifel: The Evangelical-Lutheran Community of Brzezine near Lodz/Poland 1829-1945 , Vierkirchen/Schwabach 1983, p. 84.
  13. Eduard Kneifel: The parish of Brzeziny. For the 100th anniversary celebration of the Ev.-Luth. Church in Brzezine on September 10, 1933 , Brzeziny 1933, S. 44.
  14. Map Distribution of the Germans and their rural property in the Lodzer area , in: Oskar Kossmann: Lodz. A historical-geographical analysis , Würzburg 1966.
  15. Eduard Kneifel: The Evangelical-Lutheran Community of Brzezine near Lodz/Poland 1829-1945 , Vierkirchen/Schwabach 1983, p. 87.