Starkowo (Ustka)

Starkowo (German Starkow ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp district ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Townscape (2003)

Geographical location

The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 14 kilometers northwest of the city of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and nine kilometers south-southwest of the city ​​of Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) on the Baltic Sea .

history

In older times, Starkow was owned by the Belbuck Monastery or its branch, the Premonstratensian nunnery in Stolp. So it was a so-called monastery village. Like the neighboring villages of Gallenzin , Horst and Mützenow, it was founded by German settlers under German law. In old feudal letters from 1355, 1450 and 1540 it appears as the property of the Krümmel family . After the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania was decided in 1534 by the Landtag of Treptow and shortly afterwards the property of the monasteries was secularized, it passed into the property of the ducal house. In Prussian times, Starkow was one of the eighteen royal villages that were under the Stolp office .

Before the end of the Second World War , Starkow belonged to the district of Stolp , administrative district of Köslin , the province of Pomerania . The parish area was 856 hectares. The municipality Starkow belonged to the village of Starkov the residential places Gallenzin and station Gallenzin-Saleske. In 1925 there were 83 residential buildings in Starkow. In 1939 116 households and 520 inhabitants were counted.

Towards the end of the war, when the Red Army approached, the community received an evacuation order, which, however, could no longer be carried out because the Soviet troops were advancing quickly. The village was taken on March 8, 1945 without a fight. The village suffered greatly from the subsequent Russian occupation. After the whole of Western Pomerania had been placed under Polish administration after the end of the war, the Poles came to the village on September 25, 1945. They set up an administration office and confiscated the houses, apartments and homesteads. In the period that followed, the villagers were driven out . Starkow was renamed Starkowo .

122 villagers who had come from Starkow were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 144 in the GDR.

Today the village has about 200 inhabitants.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, pp. 922–927 ( Description of the location Starkow ; PDF)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 934, No. 17 .

Web links

Commons : Starkowo (powiat słupski)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 926 (site description Starkow ; PDF)

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '  N , 16 ° 48'  E