Nosalin (Polish pronunciation: ; German: ''Nitzlin'') is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Postomino __NOTOC__ Gmina Postomino is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sławno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northwestern Poland. Its seat is the village of Postomino, which lies approximately north of Sławno and northeast of the reg ...

, within

Sławno County __NOTOC__ Sławno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local gove ...

West Pomeranian Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people. It was established on 1 Janua ...

, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of

Postomino Postomino (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a village in Sławno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Postomino. It lies approximately north of Sławno and n ...

, north-east of

Sławno Sławno ( Kashubian: ''Słôwno'', ) is a town on the Wieprza river in Middle Pomerania region, north-western Poland, with 12,511 inhabitants (2019). It is the administrative seat of Gmina Sławno, though not part of it. The town is also the ...

, and north-east of the regional capital

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

. In 2021, Nosalin had 158 inhabitants.

History

Not much is known about the history of the village from documented sources. It is assumed that the village has always been a pure

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village without a

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. The village had been a

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of the von Below family since 1466. Around 1780 it was one of the largest villages in the area, with 17 farmers, a smithy, a schoolmaster and 34 fireplaces. In the meantime, one of three parts of the village had fallen into the possession of the von Krockow family (from 1635 to 1637). In 1804 it was again entirely in the possession of the von Below family. In 1835, the von Below family sold it to the

Prussian state Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohenzoller ...

, probably in connection with the

Prussian Reform Movement The Prussian Reform Movement was a series of constitutional, administrative, social, and economic reforms early in 19th-century Prussia. They are sometimes known as the Stein–Hardenberg Reforms, for Karl Freiherr vom Stein and Karl August v ...

. Since then it has been an independent farming village. On 8 March 1945, the village was occupied by Soviet troops. The farms were taken over by Poles. In April 1947, all Germans were expelled.Hugo Römer: ''Nitzlin''. In: Manfred Vollack (Hrsg.): ''Der Kreis Schlawe - Ein pommersches Heimatbuch, 2. Band - Die Städte und Landgemeinden'', Husum, 1989. (German)Nosalin
(webpage about the village of Nosalin at www.postomino.pl; Polish) The layout and spatial, oval-shaped structure of the village changed little after 1945. A few buildings remained in their original form. Most of them, however, were rebuilt. From 1975 to 1998 the village was administratively assigned to the

Słupsk Voivodeship Słupsk Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, previously part of Szczecin Voivodeship (1945–50) and Koszalin Voivodeship (1950–75), superseded (since 1999) by Pomeranian Voiv ...

. For the general history of the region, see

History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD, with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans (western), Polan rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern times Pomerania has been split betw ...

Religion

The population was entirely Protestant before 1945 and belonged to the parish in Pieszcz (''Peest''). Bildstock Nosalin.jpg, Wayside shrine Wegekreuz Nosalin.jpg, Wayside cross Bridge over Wieprza in Nosalin.jpg, Bridge over the Wieprza River Wieprza in Nosalin.jpg, Wieprza River Dorf Nosalin.jpg, View to the village centre of Nosalin

School

Before 1945, the village school consisted of two classes taught in a separate school building with two teachers' flats. The school building was constructed around 1930.

References

Villages in Sławno County {{Sławno-geo-stub