Wiekowo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Wiekowo ( German Alt Wieck ) is a village in Pomerania. It is part of the rural municipality ( gmina wiejska ) Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ) of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

Wiekowo was a town in the municipality Wiekowice before 1945 ( ( New ) Wieck ) and is still structurally closely connected with this. The town is located on a side street that Pękanino ( Panknin ) national road 6 ( European route 28) Szczecin-Gdańsk with Gleznowo ( Steinort ) on the province road 203 Koszalin ( Koszalin ) Darłowo - Ustka ( Stolpmümde ) connects. Wiekowo is a railway station on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk.

History

Old Wieck belonged to the Reformation in 1535 in Pomerania to the monastery Buckow. After that, it was handed over to the ducal office Rügenwalde. Its history is closely linked to the community Wieck linked by it to 1945 for the district of Eventin ( Iwięcino ) in the district Schlawe i Pom (now Polish Wiekowice ). belonged in the district of Koszalin. By belonging to Wieck Old Wieck was a civil ceremony with Abtshagen ( Dobiesław ) connected.

Old Wieck received by the upgrading of the railway Stettin - Pomerania until after 1870 Schlawe economically big boost through the station created here. He was loading station for the villages Wieck ( Wiekowice ) Abtshagen, New Hagen Abbey ( Jeżyczki ) Pirbstow ( Przystawy ), Martin Hagen ( Grabowo ) Panknin ( Pękanino ), Nemitz ( Niemica ) Göritz ( Gorzyca ) Kuhtz ( Kusice ), Small - and large Soltikow ( Sulechówko and Sulechowo ) and Zitzmin ( Sieciemin ). At the cattle decrease days of the various cattle dealers were the peasant carts long queues. The livestock was loaded into the rail cars with the objectives of Szczecin and Berlin. Even otherwise agricultural products found on Old Wieck their way to urban consumers.

Old Wieck himself all major business establishments could muster in large numbers until 1945, as well as a police station, a railway station and a dental practice.

Church

Wiekowo belonged until 1945 to the evangelical parish Abtshagen and was associated with the Abtshagener village church. The parish was in the church circle Rügenwalde the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Friedrich Jahn.

Even today, the former Abtshagen as Dobiesław parish seat of now, however, Polish Catholic Parafia. The Protestant inhabitants in charge of the parish in the Diocese of Koszalin in Pomerania Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church.

School

The children of old Wieck and the residential area at the station I went to school in Wieck. Last headmaster before 1945 was a teacher Gramzow.