Kreis Kolberg

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 Kolberg (Polish: Kołobrzeg; after territorial changes: Kołobrzeg District, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) was developed by Willi Schulz (Rossentin / Rościęcino) and Otto Dibbelt (Kolberg / Kołobrzeg) in the years 1925-1931, 1933-1939, based on queries made by active and retired teachers and other local scientists listed in the index. The documentation was compiled by Robert Holsten in 1935-1936, who supplemented it in 1939. The original documentation was drafted in German (including the Lower German dialect), with occasional Slavic, Polish and Kashubian vocabulary. The collection consists of two parts: A–K and K–Z. The documentation consists of 217 sheets, some of them double-sided, including typed indices (181 sheets), handwritten documents (3 sheets), press (Monatsblätter, 1928, 1930, 1931, 32 sheets) and a map (1 sheet). The vast majority of the topographic maps with locations of physiographic objects and their names also survived in the documentation.

Andrzej Chludziński