Rajkowy
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Tczew | ||
| Gmina : | Pelplin | ||
| Area : | 35 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 58 ' N , 18 ° 43' E | ||
| Height : | 8 m npm | ||
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| Postal code : | 83-130 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 58 | ||
| License plate : | GTC | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | A1 : Danzig - Cieszyn | ||
| Ext. 229 : Jabłowo - Wielkie Walichnowy | |||
| Ext. 230 : Wielgłowy - Cierzpice | |||
| Rail route : | PKP - Route 131: Chorzów - Tczew | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Rajkowy ( Kashubian Rôjkòwë , German Raikau ) is a village in the urban-and-rural municipality Pelplin in the powiat Tczewski ( Dirschau ) of the Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland . It has 1,677 inhabitants.
Geographical location
Rajkowy is located on the Wierzyca ( heel ), a left tributary of the Vistula , about 15 km west of the Vistula. The nearest major town is something northwest of Pelplin located Starogard Gdanski ( Starogard ). The place is about 5 km north of Pelplin, 16 km south of Tczew and 45 km south of Gdańsk .
history
By deed dated 18 November 1292 issued in Schwetz confirmed Duke, Mestwin II. The monastery Oliva villages Rajkowy, council office, Bresnau, osterwieck and Schönwalring. Rajkowy was occupied by German new settlers between 1295 and 1314.
In 1309 Pommerellen came into the possession of the Teutonic Order and thus to the Teutonic Order State of Prussia, which had to cede the area to the Crown of Poland as Royal Prussia in 1466 . This part of Pomerania remained largely unaffected by the Reformation, only a few Mennonites settled in the area from the 17th century, but they left West Prussia again between 1772 and 1870.
In 1772 Raikau came from Royal Prussia to the Kingdom of Prussia . Reykau was designated a royal village in 1789, which included a watermill and a cutting mill. Residents of the place under the leadership of Mayor Jan Hillar and teacher Jan Kwitnowski were involved in the anti-German uprising in Starogard Gdański on February 12, 1846 .
On January 10, 1920, after the First World War , the administrative districts of the forest districts Pelplin and Pelplin and thus also the rural community of Raikau were ceded to Poland as part of the so-called Polish Corridor .
From 1975 to 1998 Rajkowy was part of the Gdansk Voivodeship .
In June 2011, the Powiat Tczew issued the building permit for a planned coal-fired power plant in Rajkowy near Pelplin. The coal-fired power plant Elektrownia Północ is to have two units with an installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts each.
Personalities
- Kazimierz Piechowski (born October 3, 1919 in Raikau; † December 15, 2017 in Gdańsk), engineer, Gestapo and concentration camp prisoner during World War II, refugee from Auschwitz.
literature
- Otto Korthals: Chronicle of the Dirschau district , with the collaboration of Werner Schultz, Prof. Dr. Franz Manthey, Gerhard Neumann, Dr. Ing.Gerhard Born, Emil Wiebe, Willi Frey, Albert Hacker and others, Witten 1969, p. 475 ff.
- Matthias Blazek: "Example of a West Prussian village: Raikau (Rajkowy)". In: “How are you beautiful!” West Prussia - The land on the lower Vistula , p. 103 ff. Ibidem: Stuttgart 2012 ISBN 978-3-8382-0357-7
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Pelplin (multilingual)
- www.territorial.de
- www.westpreussen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Statistical Office (CIS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) ( Polish ) June 1, 2008. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Perlbach, Max (arrangement): Pommerellisches Urkundenbuch, Danzig 1882, p. 440.
- ↑ Cf. Pletzing, Christian: From Spring of Nations to National Conflict - German and Polish Nationalism in East and West Prussia 1830–1871, Otto Harrassowitz KG, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 197.
- ↑ nov-ost.info of June 6, 2011.