Wierzchląd
Wierzchląd (German Verchland , formerly Ferchland ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .
Geographical location
The village is located in Western Pomerania , about 25 km east of Stettin and about 10 km west of Stargard (Stargard in Pomerania) , on the east bank of the Madusees . The river Hufnitz flows south of the village into the Madüsee.
Neighboring towns are in the north, about 1 km from the lakeshore, Kunowo (Kunow an der Straße) , in the south on the lakeshore Koszewko (Klein Küssow) and in the east Skalin (Schellin) .
history
The place was first mentioned in documents in 1320 under the name Varchland . The place name is possibly explained by the fact that the German foundation was "penned" between the surrounding older, originally Slavic villages. On the Lubin map from 1618 the place is also recorded as Varchland .
Verchland was an old fiefdom of the noble von Küssow family , which was first mentioned in 1336 with a Nicolaus Küssow. Verchland, like the neighboring goods Klein Küssow and Kunow on the street of the Megow-Klein Küssow line, belonged to the von Küssow family. This line died out in the male line with Jochen Friedrich Graf von Küssow in 1777. Verchland, as well as Klein Küssow and Kunow an der Straße, came to his daughter Friederike Gottliebe, a married woman from Zastrow . The estates were allodified in 1780 .
In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's detailed description of the current state of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania (1784), Verchland was listed among the noble estates of the Pyritz district. In Verchland at that time there was a Vorwerk , ie the farm, two cottages and a schoolmaster, a total of 16 households (“fire places”). In addition, the church was named, which was a branch church of the church of Schellin .
In 1820 Verchland, like the neighboring Klein Küssow, was bought by the Privy Councilor Ludwig Geibler (later raised to the nobility as Ludwig von Geibler). When the landlord and peasant conditions (see: Prussian Agrarian Constitution ) were regulated in Verchland, the then only existing Kossatenhof was moved to a new settlement together with the Kossatenhöfen from Klein Küssow, which was named Ludwigsthal after the Privy Councilor Ludwig von Geibler. After Ludwig von Geibler's death, his daughter Verchland inherited, while his son Theodor von Geibler received Klein Küssow. Thus the connection between Verchland and Klein Küssow was dissolved for the first time in centuries.
Around 1860 Verchland had 120 inhabitants. In 1910 the Verchland manor had 105 inhabitants.
Verchland was later incorporated into the rural community of Schellin. Until 1945, Verchland was part of the municipality of Schellin in the Pyritz district of the Prussian province of Pomerania .
After the Second World War , Verchland, like all of Western Pomerania, came to Poland. It received the Polish place name Wierzchląd .
Administrative structure
The village is located in the Gmina Stargard (rural community Stargard in Pomerania) and belongs to this powiat Stargardzki (Stargarder Kreis) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II. Volume 3. Anklam 1868, pp. 658-659. ( Online )
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Footnotes
- ↑ a b Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt: Place and field names of the Pyritz district north of the Plöne. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 24/25 NF, 1922, p. 210 no. 104.
- ↑ 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. 166. ( Online )
- ↑ Entry on the private website gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ Entry Verchland in the private information system Pomerania
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ N , 14 ° 55 ′ E