Dolgow (village)

Dolgow City of Wustrow (Wendland) Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	18 m above sea level NN
Residents :	76
Location of Dolgow in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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Dolgow is a village in Wendland in Lower Saxony and is a district of the city of Wustrow (Wendland) .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1476 under the name Dollighe . The place name comes from Polabian , the West Slavic language that was spoken in this area by the Wends until the 18th century . Dolgow was the residence of the last known native Polabian speaker, who died here in 1756.

Dolgow, whose name can be derived from the Slavic dolgi ("long"), is a small round village (typical of the Wendland) with four-column houses from the 19th century.

Web links

• Website: "Back then in Wendland": Dolgow around 1900
• Rundlingsdörfer in Wendland - Dolgow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Search for geographical names. Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, 2017, accessed on March 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ districts / villages. Samtgemeinde Lüchow (Wendland), accessed on December 9, 2018 .