Oćwieka (Przelewice)

Oćwieka ( German Woitfick ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Przelewice (municipality of Prillwitz) in the Powiat Pyrzycki (Pyritzer Kreis) .

Woitfick Castle (around 1900)

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 45 kilometers southeast of Stettin and about 10 kilometers east of the district town of Pyritz . The village is about ½ km from the shores of Plönesees away to the river here the Plöne widened.

history

The megalithic graves near Woitfick , three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic beaker culture, came from prehistoric times . They were destroyed in the 19th century.

Woitfick was an old fiefdom of the noble Steinwehr family , at least since the 16th century. On the Lubin map of the Duchy of Pomerania from 1618, the place is recorded as "Gutfick"; this name was still popular in the 19th century. In 1745 the Steinwehr sold Woitfick to Matthäus Heinrich von Liebeherr , the mayor of Stettin, who was ennobled by the emperor in 1731. In 1747 the new owner had the estate allodified .

In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784) Woitfick was listed among the noble estates of the Pyritz district . At that time there was an arable farm , ie the farm, five kossaten and a smithy, a total of 15 households (“fire places”). The village was "only separated by a bridge over a ditch" from the neighboring village of Klücken . Woitfick remained in the possession of the Liebeherr family until the grandchildren of Mayor Matthäus Heinrich von Liebeherr sold it to Count August Ferdinand von Küssow in 1794. With his son Ludwig Julius Erasmus von Küssow († 1824), the noble Küssow family died out and Woitfick came to bourgeois owners. Of the original five farms, only one existed in the middle of the 19th century; the other four had gradually been bought up by the manor.

From the 19th century, the political manor Woitfick and the smaller rural community Woitfick coexisted. In 1910 the Woitfick manor had 129 inhabitants, the rural community Woitfick only 19 inhabitants. Woitfick was later incorporated into the rural community of Klücken .

After the Second World War, Woitfick came to Poland, like all of Western Pomerania. It received the Polish place name "Oćwieka". Today it is in the Gmina Przelewice (municipality of Prillwitz) .

literature

Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II. Volume 3. Anklam 1868, pp. 780-782 ( online ).
August von Schöning : Historical-geographical-statistical handbook of the Pyritzer Kreis in Hinter-Pomerania, government departments Stettin. F. Grade, Stettin 1856, pp. 573-577 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Woitfick - collection of images

Woitfick at Meyers Gazetteer (with historical map)

Footnotes

↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 2. Stettin 1784, p. 169, no. 72 ( online )
^ Woitfick in the Pomeranian information system.

53.141388888889 15.064166666667Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ' N , 15 ° 4' E

[br-1] Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Part II, Volume 2. Stettin 1784, p. 169, no. 72 ( online )

[2] Woitfick in the Pomeranian information system.