Borzysławiec
| Borzysławiec | |
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| Village | |
 Borzysławiec
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| Coordinates: 53°31′N 14°43′E / 53.517°N 14.717°E | |
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | West Pomeranian |
| County | Goleniów |
| Gmina | Goleniów |
| Population | 90 |
Borzysławiec [bɔʐɨˈswavjɛt͡s] (German: Louisenthal) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Goleniów, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Goleniów and 15 km (9 mi) north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.
In 1809 August Heinrich von Borgstede, proprietor of the Rörchen manor estate near Lübzin (renamed as Lubczyna in 1946) and secretary of the Marcher War and Demesne Chamber, granted larger grounds for the foundation of a new village. The area was former moorland drained in a campaign started at the end of the 18th century. The vast drained lands had been part of the flatlands along the Dammscher See (now Jezioro Dąbskie). The village was then founded in 1809 as Louisenthal (later also altered as Luisenthal). A neighbouring newly founded hamlet of Rörchen bore the name Friedrichwilhelmsthal (aka Friedrich-Wilhelmsthal), thus both using the names of the then ruling royal couple.
Many settlers came from Pomeranian Hoppenwalde and Viereck. Unlike their prevailingly Lutheran fellow Pomeranians they were Roman Catholic since these villages had been settled under Fredrick the Great by immigrants from the County of Sponheim. They preserved a particular Palatine dialect. Among Louisenthal's first inhabitants were Johann Franz Petri (1781–1839) and Johann Valentin Petri (1786–1835) from Viereck. In 1816 Johann Wilhelm Thomas moved in from Hoppenwalde, marrying the Louisenthal native Maria Carolina Senft in 1835. Like all the Roman Catholics in Brandenburgian Pomerania they initially formed part of the parish of the St. John the Baptist Church in Stettin, formed in 1722. However, Louisenthal built its own little half-timbered chapel holding the first Catholic mass there in 1820. The Louisenthal curacy counted 146 souls in 1827.
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