Witków (Łęczyce)
Witków ( German Woedtke ) is a village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It belongs to the Gmina Łęczyce (municipality of Lanz) in the powiat Wejherowski (district of Neustadt) .
The village is located in eastern Pomerania , about 260 km northeast of Stettin and about 60 km northwest of Gdansk .
In Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann's Detailed Description of the Duchy of Vor and Hinter-Pommern (1784) Woedtke is listed among the aristocratic estates of the Lauenburg and Bütow districts . At that time there was a Vorwerk in Woedtke , i.e. the farm, a forge and in Feldmark there was another Vorwerk called Rexinhof , a total of five households ("fire places "). Woedtke, together with Gnewin, about 10 km away, was a majorate of the noble Rexin family ; Majoratsherr at that time was the royal Polish captain Michael Ernst von Rexin.
Woedtke formed its own political manor district from the 19th century . In 1910 there were 164 inhabitants in Woedtke. Woedtke was later incorporated into the neighboring Saulin . Until 1945 Woedtke formed a place to live in the rural community of Saulin and belonged with this to the district of Lauenburg i. Pom. in the Prussian province of Pomerania .
In 1945 Woedtke, like all areas east of the Oder-Neisse Line , came to Poland. Woedtke received the Polish place name "Witków".
Personalities
- Alexander von Rexin (1821–1914), member of the Prussian manor house, was Fideikommissherr on Woedtke and Gnewin
Web links
- Woedtke bei Meyers Gazetteer (with historical map)
Footnotes
- ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vor and Hinter Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2. Stettin 1784, p. 1084, no. 102 ( online ).
- ^ Woedtke in the Pommern information system.
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ N , 17 ° 54 ′ E