Kreis Greifenberg

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 the former Kreis Greifenberg (Polish: Gryfice; after territorial changes: Gryfice District, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland), developed by Heinrich Bosse - headmaster of the school in Plathe (Polish: Płoty) in 1933 and 1936 and Pagenkopf (first name unknown). The original documentation was drafted in German (including the Lower German dialect), with occasional Slavic, Polish and Kashubian vocabulary. The collection consists of four parts (the first three were compiled by Bosse, the fourth by Pagenkopf). All volumes comprise 778 sheets, including some of them double-sided, comprising typed lists (736 sheets), handwritten lists (36 sheets), and press (Unsere Heimat 1934; 6 sheets). The vast majority of the topographic maps with locations of physiographic objects and their names also survived in the documentation.

Andrzej Chludziński