Bielkowo, Koszalin County
Bielkowo ( German name: Beelkow ) is a village in Pomerania, now located in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the urban and rural community Sianów ( Zanow ) in the district of Koszalin ( Koszalin ).
Geographical Location
The farming village Bielkowo is located two kilometers south of the Jezioro Bukowo ( Buckower lake ) on the "Coast Road" mentioned province road 203 Koszalin ( Koszalin ) - Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) Ustka ( Stolpmünde ). Up to the city of Koszalin is 22 kilometers and the Baltic Sea town Darłowo located 16 kilometers away. The nearest railway station Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk there are seven kilometers.
Bielkowo lies in a flat rolling terrain in a falling to the Baltic Sea coastal lowlands with the highest elevation of two meters above sea level.
The neighboring communities of Bielkowo are: in the west Iwięcino ( Eventin ), in the north Gleznowo ( Steinort ), to the east Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ) and in the south Wierciszewo ( wall Hagen).
Place name
The names Bielkowo and Beelkow (formerly also Belkow ) is likely from the Slavic bely, bjely or biały = " white " derive. In Poland, there are two other villages called Bielkowo.
History
The scale than Angersdorf place Beelkow was donated to the monastery Buckow in 1265 by Duke Swantopolk II. The farmers were in the Middle Ages the Vorwerk (later domain) Buckow liable for military service. After the dissolution of the monastery during the Reformation, the abbey village Beelkow comes to Rügenwalder office.
Around 1780, the place: 1 Schulze, 14 farmers, 2 Landkossäten, 2 Straßenkossäten, 1 Büdner, 1 shepherd huts at a total of 21 hearths (households).
In 1818 Beelkow recorded 231 inhabitants. The number rose to 411 in 1895, but then went back to 1939 to 379. By 1945, the place with the communities Abtshagen formed (now Polish: Dobiesław ) Eventin ( Iwięcino ), wall Hagen ( Wierciszewo ) and Wieck ( Wiekowice ) the District Eventin district Schlawe i Pom. in the Pomeranian Region of Pomerania. Civil ceremony these same communities were connected ( with the exception of Abtshagen ) to the registry office Eventin. The last German Mayor of Beelkow was Hermann wooden base.
On March 5, 1945 Russian troops occupied, coming from wall Hagen, the village. End of March, all the inhabitants were forcibly evacuated including since the autumn of 1944 arrived and East Prussian refugees seeking protection by Steglin ( Szczeglino ). After their return in the summer of 1945 began the expulsions, which were completed by 1946 in the fall. Beelkow came under Polish administration and received its present name. The village is now part of Gmina Sianów ( Zanow ) and i is the German district Schlawe Pom. in the Polish powiat Koszaliński the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Koszalin Voivodeship ) " changed ".
Church
Beeelkow was until 1945 a village without its own church. It belonged to the locations Eventin and wall Hagen for the evangelical parish Eventin. It was in the church circle Rügenwalde in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Center of the parish was the parish church Eventin. Last German minister was Pastor Heinz Puttkamer.
Today, the site Bielkowo belongs to the Polish Catholic Church. The evangelical church members are from the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska supervised by the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church.
School
Beelkow had a einklassiges school building with teacher's apartment. About 60 children attended last school. The last German school principal prior to 1945 was a teacher Kollat who fell in the Second World War.