Lekowo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Lekow (also Leckow, poln Lekowo ) is a village with 741 inhabitants and 22.2 km ² in the community Schivelbein ( Świdwin ) Schivelbein district ( powiat Świdwiński ) in Poland.

History

In the field Mark Lekow there was a fire grave with clasps, buckles and vessels from the first century AD.

Since the 13th century belonged to the Brandenburg Neumark Lekow, 1402-1455 interrupted by the rule of the Teutonic Knights. Meanwhile bailiff complained in 1445 " at the continuing depredations of those Lekow ".

1540 earned the Order of St. John the Bailiwick Schivelbein, and the Lekows to Lekow contributed Roßdienste ibid. After the Thirty Years' War, they built the late Renaissance castle in its present form. The Seven Years' War brought again great distress during the passage of the Prussian and Russian troops.

Died in 1823 of the District of Lekow without issue, and the manor was acquired in 1845 by the family of Cleve. She let stone agricultural outbuilding build (formerly Lehmfachwerk ) and a potato flakes factory and resided here until 1945.

By 1945 the place for official and civil registry district Wopersnow belonged in the district Belgard ( Persante ) and to the parish church in the county Rützenhagen Schivelbein the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. After 1945 Lekow came to the parish in the Diocese of Koszalin - Pomerania Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church.

Since 1995, the German charitable foundation Philo Cultura promotes the maintenance of the palace and park.

Geographical location

Lekow located 8 km north- west of Schivelbein ( Świdwin ) in the administrative district of West Pomerania. Szczecin is 110 km away, Kolobrzeg Koszalin and 58 km 78 km