Kreis Rummelsburg

The documentation was developed as part of the project initiated by Pomeranian linguist, Dr Robert Holsten (1862-1954), with the aim to collect and compile contemporary folk and archive names of natural and anthropogenic physiographic objects, as well as inhabited and uninhabited places of the pre-war province of Pomerania (from Rügen to Lębork), with the help of teachers and local scientists. The collected set of archive materials – indices and maps with locations of objects – Flurnamen Sammlung – covers the intangible onomastic cultural heritage of the region. Documentation of names of physiographic objects from the area of former Kreis Rummelsburg (Polish: Miastko; after teritorial changes Bytów district, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) was probably developed in the 1930s by Fritz Krüger. The original documentation was drafted in German (including the Lower German dialect), with Slavic, Polish and Kashubian vocabulary. The documentation comprises 138 sheets, some of them double-sided, comprising a typed index 1 (125 sheets), typed index 2 (2 sheets) and handwritten documents (11 sheets). The vast majority of the topographic maps with locations of physiographic objects and their names also survived in the documentation.

Andrzej Chludziński