Lekowo

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Lekow Castle

Lekow (also Leckow , Polish Lekowo ) is a village with 741 inhabitants and 22.2 km² in the municipality of Schivelbein (Świdwin), Schivelbein (Powiat Świdwiński) in Poland .

Geographical location

Lekow is located 8 km northwest of Schivelbein (Świdwin) in the West Pomeranian administrative district. Szczecin is 110 km away, Kolberg 58 km and Köslin 78 km.

history

A cremation grave with fibulae , buckles and vessels from the first century AD was found in the field of Lekow .

Since the 13th century Lekow belonged to the Brandenburg Neumark , interrupted 1402-1455 by the rule of the Teutonic Knight Order . Its governor complained in 1445 "about the continued robberies of the von Lekow".

Greetings from Lekow - an old postcard

In 1540 the Order of St. John acquired the Bailiwick of Schivelbein , and the Lekows zu Lekow performed horse services there. After the Thirty Years' War they built the late Renaissance palace in its present form. The Seven Years' War brought great hardship once again when the Prussian and Russian troops passed through.

District Administrator Johann George Friedrich von Leckow died in 1823 without heirs, and the manor was acquired by the von Cleve family in 1845. She had stone agricultural outbuildings (formerly clay framework) and a potato flake factory built and resided here until 1945.

Until 1945 the place belonged to the official and registry office district Wopersnow in the district Belgard (Persante) and to the parish Rützenhagen in the church district Schivelbein of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union . After 1945 Lekow came to the parish of Köslin in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

The German non-profit foundation Philocultura has been promoting the maintenance of the palace and park since 1995.

Sons and daughters of the place

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Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E