Dąbie (neighborhood of Szczecin)

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XV Century church in Dąbie

Dąbie is a municipal neighborhood of Szczecin in Poland, situated on the Plonia river, on the south coast pf Dąbie Lake, on the right bank of Oder river, east of the Szczecin Old Town and Middle Town.

[edit] Dąbie name

The name of Dąbie is of Slavonic origin and comes from the words like dąb (English: Oak), dąbie, dębina (English: Oak Forest). The early Latin documents show the name as: 1121 Vadam, 1174 Dam, 1157 Dambe, 1179 Damba, 1242 Dambe, 14th century Damnis, and in German documents as: Damn, later Alt Damn (old Dąbie). Before 1945 when Stettin was a part of Germany, the German name of this suburb was Stettin-Altdamm. In 1945 the Polish name was temporarily: Dąb, Dąb Stary and later fixed to Dąbie, based on the earliest documents.

[edit] History

In the early 10th century a settlement of the Pomeranians, destroyed in 1121 in the war between Boleslaus III of Poland with the Pomeranians. The village was rebuilt and in 1176 it was awarded by duke Warcislaw to the Cistercian monastery in Kołbacz. In the following years Dąbie became the main trading post for the rich Cistersian land properties.

In 1249 duke Barnim I established a ducal municipality next to the village, and granted it autonomy under Magdeburg rights in 1260, changed to Lübeck rights in 1293.

During World War II a POW camp was erected there. Dąbie was incorporated into Szczecin in 1948.