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Stolec (German; to 1521 Blankenburg, to 1945 Stolzenburg) - a small village in the municipality of Dobra Szczecinska (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) lies in the Wkrzańska Forest by the Polish-German border, about 24 miles northwest of the center of Szczecin. Near the village are Stolsko Lake, Świdwie Lake and Gunica river.

Since the Middle Ages the settlement was part of an excellent worldly goods Pomeranian noble family von Blankenburg. In the year 1554 the village was sold to the owners of the nearby city ; Dobra Szczecinska - nobles von Ramin, who changed her name to Stolzenburg meaning the ,, high castle’’.

During the Thirty Years War the manor medieval and sixteenth-century church and the village had been destroyed almost completely deserted. Juergen Bernard von Ramin, another of the owners, founded the still existing assumption park and palace, together with the church and the grange, and recreated in the original borders of one of the largest estates of the nobility Pomeranian. From the year 1872 the company acquired the property dealers, who later went bankrupt. In 1888 the estate for debts the bank took over from Lübeck. In the early years of the twentieth century, the village has been the property dealers from Szczecin.
During the Second World War the village was not destroyed, was occupied on April 27, 1945 by Soviet Army (2 Belorussian Front). After 1945 there was a state farm here until 1992. Until 1946, there was a railway line leading through the middle of the forest, combining Gumieńce, Dobra, Stolec, Glashütte, Hintersee, Rieth and New Warpno.

This is a scan of the negative.