Kowalki (Tychowo)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | West Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Białogard | ||
| Gmina : | Tychowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 55 ' N , 16 ° 22' E | ||
| Residents : | 190 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 94 | ||
| License plate : | ZBI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Voivodeship Road 163 : Kołobrzeg - Wałcz | ||
| Rail route : |
Szczecinek – Kołobrzeg railway line , station: Tychowo |
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| Next international airport : | Szczecin-Goleniów | ||
Kowalki (German Kowalk ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the municipality of Tychowo ( Groß Tychow ) in the Białogard ( Belgard ) district.
Geographical location
Kowalki lies on a high plateau. It is 30 kilometers to the district town of Białogard via the provincial roads 169 and 163 ( Bobolice ( Bublitz ) - Byszyno ( Boissin ) - Białogard). Tychowo can be reached in eight kilometers. There is also the next train station on the Kołobrzeg ( Kolberg ) - Białogard - Szczecinek ( Neustettin ) line .
history
Kowalki, which was still called Kuewalk in 1926 , can refer to evidence of ancient settlement. Finds of graves and urns can be assigned to the 4th century.
Kowalk is an old feud which von Kleist first mentioned and was in a Lehnbrief of 1,486 documented. Mid-18th century the place was a Vorwerk with fishing, four farmers and two Kossätenhöfen with ten fireplaces (households). The Hansfelde residential area (now in Polish Kościanka ) belonged to the district .
In 1804 the von Kleist family had to give up the Kowalk manor . It was bought by the local farmers. In 1865 Kowalk consisted of 40 houses, a school, two factories and 51 farm buildings and had 477 inhabitants.
By the end of the war in 1945, 19 farms were cultivating areas between 20 and 50 hectares. There were also nine smaller businesses and many small owners.
Several craft businesses had also settled in Kowalk: a carpentry, a wheelwright, two blacksmiths, four tailors, two shoemakers, a baker and grocer, a grocery store, a windmill and a wage threshing shop.
In 1931 the total area of the municipality was 3311 hectares. The number of inhabitants rose to 535 in 135 households by 1939. The last German mayor was Wilhelm Conradt.
Kowalk was in the Belgard (Persante) district until 1945 and together with Schmenzin formed the administrative and civil registry district of Schmenzin. The last incumbent was Wilhelm Conradt. District court area was Belgard.
On March 4, 1945 at 2:00 a.m., the entire village started to flee from the approaching eastern front, which was initiated by the ringing of bells. The numerous teams, handcarts and wheelbarrows soon clogged the streets and were overtaken by the Soviet troops . A large part of the population was abducted, and numerous residents died in captivity. The expulsion by the Polish administration in autumn 1945 also allowed the last German to leave the village.
Kowalk came into Polish hands as a result of the war and is now a place under the name of Kowalki within the Gmina Tychowo in the powiat Białogardzki.
church
Parish
Kowalk was until 1945 an independent parish, with the parish noseband (Polish today: Nosibądy) in the rural county Neustettin the (Szczecinek) parish formed noseband. The parish was Drenow (Drzonowo Białogardzkie).
The parish belonged to the Belgard parish of the church province of Pomerania in the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . There was no church patronage for Kowalk. In 1940 the parish had 500 parishioners alone. The last German clergyman was Pastor Karl Heinrich Reimer.
Today Kowalki is part of the Koszalin ( Köslin ) parish in the Pomeranian-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Village church
The Kowalker church is a simple half-timbered building with a tower and a half-timbered transept.
school
At the village school, mentioned in 1865, the teachers Karl Roeske (also organist), Lisbeth Gramatke and Erich Zühlke taught last.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the place
- Franz Ulrich von Kleist (born February 2, 1688 in Kowalk), Prussian lieutenant general and holder of the Order of the Black Eagle († 1757)
literature
- Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee (ed.): The Belgard district. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle 1989.