Kluczkowo

Kluczkowo (German name Klützkow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Świdwin ( Schivelbein ) in the Świdwin district .

Geographical location

Kluczkowo is seven kilometers southeast of Świdwin on a side road to Bierzwnica ( Reinfeld ) and Gawroniec ( Gersdorf ). The course of the Rega river forms the eastern border of the town.

history

Klützkow with Charlottenhof and Klützkower Mühle (Polish: Kluczkówko) is called Clocktzow in the Neumark land register in 1337 and was owned by Seg. de Voltzikow. In 1447 the Carthusian monastery Schivelbein acquired part of the village and received church patronage here .

In 1602 Klützkow was owned by the Junker Henning Reich, in 1621 Lorenz von Wachholz bought it on Dargislaff, in 1651 his sons Vincent Henning and Hans Christof owned it, and in 1784 it was owned by Gans Edler zu Putlitz.

In 1843 Klützkow had 270 inhabitants, in 1939 there were 405 in 95 households. The parish area was 1464 hectares and was cultivated by 45 farms.

The estate was owned by Paul Müller before 1945. Charlottenhof belonged to Friedrich Wilhelm Schlotte.

Mayors were Reinhold Schulz until 1944, Paul Müller from 1944 to 1945 and again Reinhold Schulz. With the communities of Gumtow , Repzin and Wartenstein , Klützkow belonged to the Langenhaken administrative and civil registry district . Until the district reform in 1932, it was in the Schivelbein district , which then became part of the Belgard district (Persante) . The competent district court was in Schivelbein .

The occupation of the place by Russian troops on March 5, 1945 took place after heavy fighting. About 120 dead German soldiers and civilians were buried in a mass grave in the Klützkower cemetery near the morgue. About 1000 prisoners started from Klützkow into captivity.

The expulsion of the German population began in August 1945 . Klützkow came into Polish hands and today, as Kluczkowo, belongs to Gmina Świdwin in the newly formed Schivelbein district .

church

Parish

Klützkow was the mother church with the daughter community Simmatzig in the 14th century . In the post-Reformation period, Klützkow then formed an independent parish within the Reinfeld parish . Gumtow and Charlottenhof belonged to the Klützkow parish, which in 1940 had a total of 850 parish members. She was part of the church district Schivelbein in the church province of Pomerania of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Kluczkowo belongs to the parish Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Village church

The Klützkower Church was built in 1856. It was built from boulders and bricks with a polygonal choir closure without a tower. The two gables were raised in steps over the roof. There was a belfry next to the church.

school

Before 1945, Fritz Ristow, who was also the organist, was the last German teacher to teach at the village school.

literature

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

Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '  N , 15 ° 52'  E