Berkanowo

Berkanowo
	Berkanowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Powiat :	Świdwin
Gmina :	Świdwin
Geographic location :	53 ° 49 '  N , 15 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '0 "  N , 15 ° 34' 0"  E
Residents :	140
Telephone code :	(+48) 94
License plate :	ZSD

Berkanowo (German Berkenow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Świdwin (rural community Schivelbein ) in the powiat Świdwiński .

Geographical location

Berkanowo is 14 kilometers northwest of Świdwin on the border with the powiat Łobeski ( Labes ). The western border of the municipality forms the Mołstowa ( Molstow ), a tributary of the Rega . Berkanowo can be reached via a side road from Świdwin via Leckow and Kartlow .

Local history

Berkenow was first mentioned in a document in 1569. At that time Dionis Scharn sold half a Kossate in Berkenow to the town of Schivelbein. The place is also mentioned in the exchange contract between Margrave Johann von Brandenburg-Küstrin and the Order of St. John .

Since 1762 the manor was owned by the von Schmidt family. In the 17th century Michael Heinrich von Rüchel was the heir to Semerow and Berkenow and district administrator of the Schivelbein district from 1687 to 1694.

In 1811 there were nine full farmers and one half farmer in Berkenow. When the farmers were regulated in 1823, five farmers were recognized. In 1884 Berkenow was the largest manor in the Schivelbein district with 1,337 hectares. As a later remnant it was still 500 hectares in size in 1924; its owner was Dr. from Schmidt.

The United Saatzuchten in Ebstorf ( district of Uelzen / Lüneburger Heide ) had several test areas for growing grain and potatoes on the remaining material . There were also two farms. Agriculture shaped the place and gave the majority of the population work and bread. There was also a forge, a shoemaker's shop, a watchmaker's shop and an inn.

The Vorwerk Vier, two kilometers away, still belonged to Berkenow, but was no longer inhabited in the end. It was on the edge of a swampy meadow and was a paradise for storks.

Berkenow belonged to the Schivelbein district until 1932, when it was incorporated into the Belgard district (Persante) . In 1939 the village had 260 inhabitants in 62 households with a community area of ​​1,067.1 hectares. The place was in the district and registry office district Schlenzig and in the district court area Schivelbein .

In 1945 the place came to Poland. Berkenow became Berkanowo and is now part of Gmina Świdwin.

church

Parish

The independent parish Berkenow formed the parish Semerow, to which Meseritz also belonged , until 1945 with the parishes Kartlow and Semerow . The parish was in the parish of Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1940 the parish Semerow counted a total of 830 parishioners, of which 298 belonged to the parish Berkenow. The last German clergyman was Pastor Hermann Blumenbach, who looked after the parish until 1933. After that the position remained vacant and Pastor Dr. Walter Lüdke from the neighboring church in Rützenhagen looked after the parishioners.

Today Berkanowo is part of the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Village church

The Berkenower Church is a simple, rectangular field stone building and dates from the 19th century. The ringing consisted of two bells (64 and 60 cm in diameter). One of them (cast year 1774) survived the Second World War on the bell cemetery in Hamburg. It is now in the Protestant church in Bergen in the Palatinate .

literature

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