Witkowo (Smołdzino)

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Witkowo (German Vietkow ) is a village in the municipality of Smołdzino in the Powiat Słupski ( Stolp district ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Witkowo is located in Western Pomerania , about 25 kilometers northeast of the city of Słupsk ( Stolp ) and five kilometers south-southeast of the church village Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ).

history

Witkowo (formerly also Witkow ) was mentioned in 1282 under the place name Wicesowo in a document with which the Pomeranian Duke Mestwin II renewed the donation of his father Swantopolk II for the Stanislaus Church in Garde. In Prussian times, Vietkow belonged to the so-called royal villages that were under the Schmolsin office. Around 1784 there were seven farmers in Vietkow, one Schulzen, three Kossäts , five Büdner and a total of 15 households. The peasants and cottagers were obliged to serve as feudal takers to the Schmolsin office and, among other things, had to do tension work. In 1832, the communally used agricultural areas of the municipality were divided up among the farmers. In 1912 the road from Alt Gutzmerow to Schmolsin and the railway line to Dominke were built.

In 1925 there were 74 residential buildings in Vietkow. In 1939 Vietkow had 281 inhabitants in 75 households and the municipality had a total of 46 farms.

Before 1945 Vietkow belonged to the District Schmolsin in county Stolp , administrative region of Pomerania , the province of Pomerania . The parish area was 484 hectares. There were a total of six places of residence in the municipality of Vietkow:

  • Erlental
  • Karlshof
  • Lupine Mountain
  • Oberdorf
  • Unterdorf
  • Vietkow

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the village on March 9, 1945 . Then Poles came and took over the farms. Vietkow was renamed Witkowo . The villagers were subsequently driven out .

Later, 137 villagers from Vietkow were identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 57 in the GDR .

The village now belongs to the powiat Słupski of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Slupsk Voivodeship ). Around forty people live here today.

church

The villagers present in Vietkow before 1945 were Protestant . Vietkow belonged to the Schmolsin parish and thus to the Stolp-Altstadt parish.

school

Until 1830 the villages of Zietzen, Virchenzin and Vietkow had a common school, which was located between these villages on the 'knight-free' Vorwerk Rambow. Because the way to school was too long, each of the three villages got its own school. After the school building in Vietkow burned down in 1881, a new school building was built 200 meters further northwest of the old school building. In 1932, a single teacher taught 48 school children in what was then a single-stage school.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 940, No. 8 .
  2. ^ The community of Vietkow in the former Stolp district (Gunthard Stübs and Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2011)
  3. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Pagel : The district of Stolp in Pomerania . Lübeck 1989, p. 997 ( online; PDF)
  4. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi , Ed .: Earth Description of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume III, Part 2, Halle 1794, p. 896 .