Village Gatz in Pomerania

Gatz (Polish name Gać and Kashubian name - Gac), a village in Poland located on the plain in the Pomerania, 16.5 km from the city Slupsk.
In VIII-X century - in the Valley Moszczeniczki, about 1.5 km from the present building was founded mediaeval Slavic village.
1463 - the first written information about the village Gatz. Graf von Below (called the Lord of Gatz): document recording village to family von Below, who lived for 408 years in the local castle Wasserburg
In 1792 born Heinrich von Below, the leader of a religious sect belowian (d. 1855).
After Second World War village Gatz connected to Poland as a Gać.
Photo: Roadside shrine in Gatz village. Source. Wikimedia.