Kąkolewice (Węgorzyno)

Kąkolewice (German Kankelfitz ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Węgorzyno (urban and rural municipality Wangerin) in the Powiat Łobeski (Labeser district) .

Village church (photo from 2013)

Ruins of a building belonging to the estate (photo from 2010)

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 70 km east of Stettin and about 7 km southwest of the district town of Łobez (Labes) .

The Danzig – Stargard railway runs along the southern and eastern outskirts of the village . Separated by this railway line and by the Aalbach, the neighboring village of Lesięcin (Lessenthin) connects to the southeast . The closest neighbor to the west is Kraśnik Łobeski (Kratzig) .

history

Kankelfitz appears in the 18th century as a fief of the noble Pomeranian family Borcke . For a long time, Kankelfitz and the neighboring Lessenthin were in the same hand. Andreas Matthias von Borcke (* 1688; † 1740), Prussian major, inherited Kankelfitz from his father and received Lessenthin from his uncle, Lieutenant General Ernst Matthias von Borcke .

His son, Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von Borcke (* 1737, † 1787) inherited Kankelfitz and Lessenthin as a child. However, in 1744, his guardians Kankelfitz and Lessenthin sold them to Major General Johann Ernst von Alemann “for 18 years to be repurchased” . Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von Borcke redeemed the property from his heirs after he had retired from the army in 1766 and managed them himself. He also had his seat in Kankelfitz as district administrator. In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's description of the duchy Vor - and Hinterpommern (1784) "Kankelvitz" appeared as the "seat of the current district administrator and director of the Borckeschen Kreis". At that time there was a farm here, i.e. the farm, a sheep farm, a water mill, a brick factory, the pastor and four farms, a total of 13 households (“fire places”).

His son Ernst August Philipp von Borcke (* 1766, † 1850) inherited Kankelfitz and Lessenthin and also became district administrator. When he got into financial difficulties, he ceded the Kankelfitz and Lessenthin estates to his wife in order to keep them in the family. Accordingly, his wife was registered in the knighthood register of 1842 as the owner of the manors Kankelfitz and Lessenthin. His sons later owned the Kankelfitz manor.

Around 1870 the Lehn-Rittergut Kankelfitz, i.e. the manor district , comprised 1846 acres of land, of which 1278 acres were arable land, and 144 inhabitants in 25 families. 14 horses, 44 cattle and 1126 sheep were kept. In addition, there was the parish church village of Kankelfitz, i.e. the rural rural community , with 671 acres of land, including 503 acres of arable land, and 49 inhabitants in 6 families. 13 horses, 36 cattle and 568 sheep were kept here.

In the 1910 census, 119 inhabitants were counted in the Kankelfitz manor district and 29 inhabitants in the rural community of Kankelfitz. Later the Kankelfitz manor district was incorporated into the rural community. Until 1945 Kankelfitz formed a rural community in the Regenwalde district of the Pomerania province . In 1933 158 inhabitants were counted in the municipality, in 1939 163 inhabitants. Apart from the village of Kankelfitz, there were no other living spaces in the community.

In 1945, Kankelfitz, like all of Western Pomerania, came to Poland. The place was given the Polish name "Kąkolewice".

Personalities

Johann Ernst von Alemann (1684–1757), owner of the Kankelfitz manor

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ernst August Philipp von Borcke (1766–1850), district administrator of the Borckescher Kreis and the Regenwalde district, owner of the Kankelfitz manor

Connected to the place

• Johann Ernst von Alemann (1684–1757), Prussian major general, owner of the Kankelfitz manor
• Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von Borcke (1737–1787), District Administrator of the Borckescher Kreis, owner of the Kankelfitz manor

See also

• List of places in the province of Pomerania

literature

• Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II, Volume 7. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, pp. 745-747. ( Online ).

Web links

Commons : Kąkolewice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 1. Stettin 1784, p. 339 f. ( Online ).
2. ↑ Regenwalde district at gemeindeververzeichnis.de.
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Regenwalde district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Kankelfitz municipality in the Pommern information system.

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 15 ° 34'  E