Łąkowo

Łąkowo (German Lankow b. Schivelbein ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) in the Świdwin County .

Geographical location

Łąkowo is eight kilometers southwest of the district town of Świdwin on the west bank of the Jez. Oparzno ( Wopersnower See ) on a side road connection between Świdwin and Rusinowo ( Rützenhagen ). The nearest train station is Świdwin on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

history

The remains of an old castle wall on a promontory protruding into Lake Wopersnower point to the ninth to eleventh centuries. In 1488 awarded Margrave Johann von Brandenburg family Wupper Snow a share "at the Lancken", and eleven years later mortgaged Elector Joachim and Duke Albert I of Brandenburg-Ansbach by Klemzow with Lankow. In 1736 Lankow is subject to the Schivelbein Castle Mill.

In 1749 the village had thirteen farmers. During the Seven Years' War Lankow suffered greatly from the passage of Prussian and Russian troops. In 1760 there was a Russian camp here. Lieutenant Carl von Beneckendorff was named as the landowner .

In 1782 there were two outbuildings , six houses and two sheep pens. In 1843 there were 235 inhabitants, in 1925 there were 333 and in 1939 261 people. There was a one-class elementary school in Lankow.

Until 1945 Lankow belonged with a community area of ​​833.7 hectares to the district of Belgard (Persante) and was in the district court area Schivelbein. The last German mayor was Richard Grunewald.

In March 1945, Red Army troops marched into the village. The local population was expelled . Lankow came to Poland as Łąkowo and is now part of the rural community of Gmina Świdwin.

Office Lankow

Until 1945 Lankow formed a separate district with the municipalities of Boltenhagen , Liepz , Rützenhagen and Wussow .

The same communities formed the Lankow registry office district.

church

Parish

Lankow was until 1945 an independent parish, with the parishes Wopersnow and Klemzow the parish belonged Wopersnow. The place was in the church district Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Łąkowo belongs to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church . The place of the church is Świdwin .

Village church

According to the inscription, the half-timbered church, which is closed on three sides in the east and west, was built in 1749. The walls were replaced by brickwork in 1928. The wooden tower with a belfry was demolished after 1945.

The bell delivered in World War II (casting year: 1662) was saved from being melted down for war purposes. Via the bell cemetery in Hamburg, it came to the Evangelical Church Community of Ernsthofen in the Odenwald . It has been ringing from the bell tower that is attached to the village community center in Klein-Bieberau since 1962 .

literature

• Belgard County. From the history of a Pomeranian home district , ed. from the home district committee Belgard-Schivelbein, Celle 1989

Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E