Kreis Bublitz

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 Bublitz (Polish: Bobolice; after territorial changes: part of Koszalin District, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) was compiled by Haack (first name unknown), a middle school (German: Mittelschule) teacher living in Bobolice, on the basis of data collected in 1934-1935 by local schoolteachers (whose names were included on the lists) living in the towns and villages of Kreis Bublitz. The administrative region was liquidated in 1932 and divided between other administrative units with seats in Białogard (German: Belgard), Szczecinek (German: Neustettin) and Miastko (German: Rummelsburg i.P.). The author handed the source documentation over to Holsten in 1935. The original documentation was drafted in German (including the Lower German dialect), with Slavic, Polish and Kashubian vocabulary. The documentation comprises 84 sheets, some of them double-sided, comprising a typed index 1 (66 sheets), typed index 2 (2 sheets) documents (2 sheets) and press (Heimat Erde, 1935, 4 sheets). The vast majority of the topographic maps with locations of physiographic objects and their names also survived in the documentation.

Andrzej Chludziński