Ratajki

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Ratajki (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
Powiat : Koszalin
Gmina : Sianów
Geographic location : 54 ° 12 '  N , 16 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '28 "  N , 16 ° 27' 58"  E
Height : 70 m npm
Residents : 130
Postal code : 76-004
Telephone code : (+48) 94
License plate : ZKO
Economy and Transport
Street : Sianów - Ratajki - Nadbór - Polanów
Rail route : Railway station: Skibno , Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line
Next international airport : Gdansk or
Stettin-Goleniów



Ratajki (German Ratteick ) is a village in Western Pomerania , now in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural municipality Sianów ( Zanow ) in the powiat Koszaliński ( Köslin ).

Geographical location

Ratajki is located in the northeast of the Koszalin district , 22 kilometers from the district town on a side road from Sianów on the state road 6 ( Stettin - Danzig ) via Sowno ( Alt Zowen ) and Nadbór ( Nadebahr ) to Polanów ( Pollnow ). The nearest train station is Skibno ( Schübben-Zanow ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line . Until 1945 there was a connection via Latzig (now Polish: Laski) to the Köslin – Natzlaff (Nacław) (–Pollnow) small railway line operated by the Köslin – Belgarder Bahnen .

Ratajki lies in the area of ​​the terminal moraines of the Baltic ridge 70 meters above sea level. in the case of height differences in the district between 43 and 106 meters. Small streams mark the borders with the neighboring villages Kościernica ( Kösternitz ) with Mirotki ( Eichhof ) Szczeglino ( Steglin ) Sieciemin ( Zitzmin ) Przytok ( Twelve hooves ), Kusice ( Kuhtz ) Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ) and Powidz ( Peace Village ).

history

Ratteick (formerly also Ratteck , Rattegk ) is an old Rahmelsches fief that has been documented since the 15th century . On February 21, 1748, Ewald Richard von Rahmel sold half of the village to Major Jürgen Lorenz von Kleist , the other half had already gone to the von Below family. Claus von Below inherited it to Tessen Christian von Kleist as early as 1699.

In 1752, the entire fiefdom came into one hand under Hans Joachim von Kleist in Nemitz (today N-Polish: Niemica), and in 1857 Eugen Andreas Ludendorff bought the estate from the von Kleist family . In 1890/95, most of the property was finally relocated. A remnant of 212 hectares remained and was owned by Heinrich Thormeyer in 1939, who leased it to Hans Heinrich Zeidler.

In Ratteick with its districts Bartelsmühle (Polish: Jazy) and Glashütte (Borowiec) lived in 1818 only 52 inhabitants. The number rose to 403 in 1885, but was only 295 in 1939. The area covered by the municipality in that year was 1,100 hectares.

On March 1, 1945 Ratteick was overrun by troops of the Red Army , which advanced from Pollnow (Polanów) in the direction of Kuhtz (Kusice). Numerous residents were shot. Poles soon took possession of the place. The German population was expelled in the spring of 1946 . Ratteick became part of the urban and rural community Sianów as Ratajki and moved from the district of Schlawe i. Pom. in the Powiat Koszaliński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Office Ratteick

Ratteick formed before 1945 with Steglin (Szczeglino) and Zirchow (Sierakowo Sławieńskie) an administrative district in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. It belonged to the administrative district of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Ratteick registry office

The three municipalities of the district were also united to form the registry office in Ratteick. The registry office documents from the period before 1945 are kept in the registry office in Sianów ( Zanow ) (documents from the 20th century) and in the Koszalin State Archives (19th century).

church

Parish

Before 1945, almost all of the residents of Ratteick were Protestant . The parish, to which a total of 286 parishioners belonged in 1940, was independent, and as a subsidiary parish - like the parish of Zowen (Sowno) - belonged to the parish Kösternitz (Kościernica) in the parish of Köslin (Koszalin) of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm Schubring.

Today, the majority of the residents of Ratajki belong to the Catholic Church in Poland . The village is integrated into the parish Sieciemin ( Zitzmin ) in the deanery Sławno in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg . The Protestant church members are now looked after by the Koszalin parish in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Village church

There was a church in Ratteick, which was surrounded by a cemetery. Manor owner Eugen Andreas Ludendorff had the church built in 1860 with his own funds. It was a building made of massive boulders and bricks. The belfry was erected in front of the church.

school

In Ratteick there was a single-class elementary school before 1945, the building of which was built around 1890. 40 to 50 children attended the school, the last German teacher Richard Klix taught here from 1917 to 1945.

literature

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

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