Lejkowo (Malechowo)

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Postcard from the 1920s: Karl Haase's inn; Lock; Village street; View from the mountain.

Lejkowo [ lɛi̯'kɔvɔ ] (German: Leikow, Schlawe district in Pomerania ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the Sławno ( Schlawe ) district.

Geographical location

Lejkowo is twelve kilometers southwest of the district town of Sławno ( Schlawe ) on a valley slope of the Grabowa ( Grabow ). The road Sławno - Bobrowiczki ( Neu Bewersdorf ) - Żegocino ( Segenthin ) - Jacinki ( Jatzingen ) - Polanów ( Pollnow ) runs through the village and crosses the side road Ratajki ( Ratteick ) - Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) --imsica ( Söllnitz ) - Nowy Żytnik ( New Mill ) on Voivodship Road 205 ( Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) - Sławno - Bobolice ( Bublitz )).

Until 1945, the small railway line of the Schlawer Bahnen from Schlawe (now Polish: Sławno) to Pollnow (Polanów) cut through the Feldmark with stops in Leikow and Borkow (Borkowo). The route is still partially visible today.

The village of Lejkowo lies on a flat undulating ground moraine at an altitude of about 55 to 75 meters. The highest point is the nearby and formerly called Pottack (103 meters).

Neighboring communities of Lejkowo are in the west Sulechowo ( Groß Soltikow ), in the north Żegocino ( Segenthin ) and Podgórki ( German Puddiger ), in the east Goalsica ( Söllnitz ), in the southeast Bożenice ( Bosens ) and in the south Laski ( Latzig ) and Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirakowo Sławieńskie ) ).

history

The densely populated street village of Leikow was originally laid out around an estate and was later expanded through the settlement of the estate. Already in the 13th century it is mentioned as belonging to the Parish Nemitz (now Polish: Niemica). The owners of the fief in the Middle Ages are not known.

At times the village was owned by the von Ramel family . In 1620 Joachim von Podewils bought 1 farmers on Krangen (Krąg) from the bankruptcy of the von Rahmel zu Nemitz family. In the following years the owners changed frequently, and in 1784 it finally arrives with one Vorwerk , 1 water mill, one brick, one school building as well as six farmers in the possession of the family von Schlieffen, who then aufsiedelte their land in the 20th century.

In 1944, during the Second World War , construction of the so-called east wall began along the heights south of the Grabow (Grabowa). An anti-tank trench was dug between Leikow and Borkow, and a trench was led to Söllnitz (Zielica). This defensive structure secured to the east became worthless when the Red Army troops arriving from the west reached the Grabow line near Leikow on March 2, 1945. The day before, the population had fled in the direction of Schlawe and Stolp in the hope of being able to reach a port city. But in Wittstock near the Garder See the trek was overtaken by Russian troops and driven back to Leikow.

The villagers were expelled from their village on September 1, 1946 after the farms had gradually passed into Polish hands. Leikow was named Lejkowo and is now part of Gmina Malechowo in the Powiat Sławieński in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

Until 1945 Leikow had with the residential areas Borkow (Borkowo), Leikower Mühle (Lejkówko), Limbrechtshöhe and Limbrechtshof (Darskowo) the administrative district Soltikow (Sulechowo) in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin . The last village mayor was Karl Klatt. Leikow was also civilly connected to Soltikow, while the competent district court was in Schlawe .

Lejkówko ( Leikow Mill )

500 meters north of Lejkowo is the Lejkówko ( Leikower Mill ) settlement in the Grabowa ( Grabow ) valley . Before 1945, there was a grinding mill here. Its last owner was Max Trotske, who was abducted by the Russians shortly before the end of the war and is missing.

church

With the villages of Klein Soltikow (today Polish: Sulechówko), Groß Soltikow (Sulechowo), Söllnitz (Destinationsica), Nemitz (Niemica) and Borkow (Borkowo), Leikow belonged to the parish of Klein Soltikow before 1945 , which was integrated into the parish of Nemitz . It was in the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) of the church province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church patronage was incumbent on the von Schlieffen family . The last German clergyman was Pastor Martin Vossberg in Nemitz. The position of a special parish vicar for Leikow, who also looked after the villages of Zirchow (Sierakowo Sławieńskie) and Krangen (Krąg) belonging to the parish of Pollnow (Polanów) , was no longer occupied in the last few years before the end of the war.

Until 1945 the village was predominantly Protestant, today most of its inhabitants belong to the Polish Catholic Church . Lejkowo is integrated into the Parafia Sulechówko in the Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg ( Köslin-Kolberg ). The Evangelical residents are looked after by the Koszalin ( Köslin ) parish in the Pomerania-Greater Poland diocese in the Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Church in Poland .

school

A school is mentioned in Leikow as early as 1784. Until 1945 the village had a single-class school building with a teacher's apartment, which was built around 1900 and was in the center of the village. The last German teachers were Erich Lemke and Willi Bartelt.

literature

  • The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian Heimatbuch , ed. by Manfred Vollack, 2 volumes, Husum, 1989