Żelkówko

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Żelkówko (German Klein Silkow ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp district ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Żelkówko is located in Western Pomerania , about 15 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Słupsk ( Stolp ), 32 kilometers northwest of the city of Bytów ( Bütow ) and six kilometers southwest of the parish village Dębnica Kaszubska ( Rathsdamnitz ).

history

Klein Silkow and Groß Silkow are said to have been a cohesive fiefdom in older times, in which the Zitzewitz and Wobeser families , between whom there were probably family ties, shared. From this, the two separate manors Klein Silkow and Groß Silkow are said to have formed over time. Both goods were demonstrably owned by the Wobeser family in the period 1337–1810. Around 1784 Klein Silkow had a farm , a watermill, a brickworks, five full farmers , one half farmer , three farmers , a blacksmith, a schoolmaster and on the field of the village a sheep farm and a cutting mill with two cottages and a total of 29 households. In 1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann von Wobeser sold both goods to his cousin Heinrich August Friedrich Ferdinand von Boehn auf Scharsow for 32,000 thalers . In 1812 the latter moved to Klein Silkow to manage the goods from here. In 1845 a new manor house was built. In 1852 Klein Silkow was sold to Hermann Neumann for 52,000 thalers. The estate was still owned by the Neumann family in 1938.

In 1925 there were 34 residential buildings in Klein Silkow. In 1939 there were 59 households and 238 residents. In addition to the estate, there were eleven farms and an inn in the village. Until 1945, the village of Klein Silkow to belong county Stolp in Administrative district Köslin of Pomerania Province . The parish area was 1,285 hectares. There were a total of five places of residence in the Klein Silkow district:

  • Little Silkow
  • Labuhnerbrück
  • Mill
  • Schnauzhof
  • Cutting mill

Towards the end of the Second World War , the villagers of Klein Silkow on March 5, 1945, with the help of a horse-drawn cart, fled from the approaching Red Army . The trek passed via Scharsow, Rathsdamnitz, Hebrondamnitz and in two days only came to Grapitz, where it was overrun by Soviet troops. The villagers had to return. One of the villagers was immediately taken and kidnapped by the Red Army soldiers, three died on the way. After the rearguard of an SS division and a demolition squad had left the otherwise empty village, Klein Silkow was occupied by Soviet troops on March 7, 1945. Except for one farm on the Stolpe, which burned down, there was no destruction. The Russians took possession of the estate.

After the end of the war, Klein Silkow was placed under Polish administration together with the whole of Western Pomerania . While the Soviet soldiers continued to occupy the estate, Poland took over the village in 1945. Klein Silkow was renamed Żelkówko . The German villagers were expelled .

Later, 87 villagers displaced from Klein Silkow were identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 70 in the GDR .

school

The municipality of Klein Silkow had a single-stage elementary school in 1932. A single teacher taught nearly 60 school children here. The school was also attended by children from part of the Loitz community.

church

The population present in Klein Silkow before 1945 was of Protestant denomination. Klein Silkow belonged to the Quackenburg parish and thus to the Stolp-Altstadt parish.

Personalities: sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Road map PL 003: Western Pomerania. Stolp - Köslin - Gdansk. 9th edition, Höfer Verlag, Dietzenbach 2005, ISBN 978-3-931103-14-9 , grid square G5.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 1005, No. 134 .
  3. ^ The community of Klein Silkow in the former Stolp district. Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association, 2011
  4. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania. Evidence of his German past . Lübeck 1989, p. 630 ( Online, PDF)