Nowa Wieś (german: link=no, Schönhölzig) is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Czaplinek, within
Drawsko County,
West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western
Poland.
It lies approximately south-east of
Czaplinek, east of
Drawsko Pomorskie, and east of the regional capital
Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...
.
History
The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler
Mieszko I
Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was the first ruler of Poland and the founder of the first independent Polish state, the Duchy of Poland. His reign stretched from 960 to his death and he was a member of the Piast dynasty, a son of Siemomysł and ...
in the 10th century. It was a private village of
Polish nobility
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
, administratively located in the Wałcz County in the
Poznań Voivodeship in the
Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.
References
Villages in Drawsko County
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