Bielkowo (Sianów)

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Bielkowo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Koszalin
Gmina : Sianów
Area : 8.40  km²
Geographic location : 54 ° 19 ′  N , 16 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 16 ″  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 94
License plate : ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 203 : Koszalin ↔ Ustka
Rail route : Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line (station: Wiekowo )



Bielkowo ( German  Beelkow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Sianów ( Zanow ) in the Powiat Koszaliński ( Köslin district ).

Geographical location

The farming village is located in Western Pomerania , two kilometers south of the Buckower See ( Jezioro Bukowo ).

The Voivodeship Road 203 , known as the 'coastal road', leads to the village from Koszalin ( Köslin ) - Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Ustka ( Stolpmünde ). It is 22 kilometers to Köslin, and the Baltic city of Rügenwalde is 16 kilometers away. It is seven kilometers to the nearest railway station Wiekowo ( Alt Wieck ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

The village is located in a flat undulating terrain in a lowland sloping towards the Baltic Sea coast with the highest elevation of two meters above sea level.

The neighboring communities of Bielkowo are: in the west Iwięcino ( Eventin ), in the north Gleźnowo ( Steinort ), in the east Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ) and in the south Wierciszewo ( Wandhagen ).

Place name

The German place name Beelkow (formerly also Belkow ) is likely to be derived from the Slavic bely , bjely or biały = "white".

history

The as Angersdorf scale place Beelkow was founded in 1265 by Duke Swantopolk II. The Monastery Buckow given. In the Middle Ages, the farmers were obliged to serve the Vorwerk (later domain) Buckow . After the monastery was dissolved during the Reformation , the Abbey village of Beelkow came to the Rügenwalder office .

Around 1780, the Location: 1 Schulze , 14 farmers, 2 Landkossäten , 2 Straßenkossäten , 1 Büdner , 1 shepherd skating for a total of 21 hearths (households).

In 1818 Beelkow had 231 inhabitants. The number rose to 411 by 1895, but then dropped to 379 by 1939. Until 1945 the place with the communities Abtshagen (today Polish: Dobiesław), Eventin (Iwięcino), Wandhagen (Wierciszewo) and Wieck (Wiekowice) formed the administrative district Eventin in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the Pomeranian administrative district of Köslin . Able Officially these same communities were connected (with the exception of Abtshagen) to the registry office Eventin. The last German mayor of Beelkow was Hermann Holzfuß.

On March 5, 1945, Russian troops, coming from Wandhagen , occupied the village. At the end of March all residents, including the East Prussian refugees who had arrived since autumn 1944 and seeking protection, were forcibly evacuated to Steglin (Szczeglino). After their return in the summer of 1945, Beelkow was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet Union . Beelkow received the Polish place name Bielkowo . The immigration of Polish civilians began. From the autumn of 1945 took place the violent expulsion of the native population from Beelkow that were completed by the 1946th

The village is now part of the Gmina Sianów ( Zanow ) and is from the German district of Schlawe i. Pom. "changed" to the Polish Powiat Koszaliński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

Population development

year Residents Remarks
1818 231
1867 444
1871 442 without exception Evangelicals
1895 411
1925 375 including 374 Protestants and one Catholic person
1933 373
1939 378

church

Until 1945 Beelkow was a village without its own church. It belonged with the places Eventin and Wandhagen to the evangelical parish Eventin. It was in the parish of Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The center of the parish was the Eventin parish church . The last German clergyman was Pastor Heinz Puttkamer.

Today Bielkowo belongs to the Polish Catholic Church . The Protestant church members are cared for by the Koszalin ( Köslin ) parish in the Pomeranian-Greater Poland diocese of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg (i.e. Lutheran) Church .

school

Beelkow owned a one-class school building with a teacher's apartment. About 60 children recently attended school. The last German headmaster before 1945 was teacher Wilhelm Hermann Otto Kollath (* 1903), who died in World War II.

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Martin Holzfuß (1925–2012), German major general and politician (FDP), MEP

literature

  • Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vorpommern and Hinterpommern . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 857, paragraph (3).
  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Ludwig Quandt : On the prehistory of the Pomerania . In: Baltische Stadien, Volume 22, Stettin 1868, pp. 121–213, Stettin 1868, especially p. 147.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vorpommern and Hinterpommern . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 857, paragraph (3).
  3. ↑ a b Prussian State Statistical Office: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population (VIII. Kreis Schlawe) . Berlin 1873, pp. 132-133, no. 11.
  4. ↑ The Beelkow community in the former Schlawe district in Pomerania (Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011)
  5. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schlawe.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).