Wielogłowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Wielogłowy ( German Vilgelow, Kashubian Wélogłowë ) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Wielogłowy located in Pomerania, east of Slupsk in a plane between Stolpe ( Słupia ) and Lupow ( Łupawa ). A road connecting leads from the district town about Redzikowo ( Reitz ) in the place where only one kilometer south the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) passes. Rail connection is via the station Jezierzyce Słupskie on the railway line # 202 of Stargard to Gdansk.
Place name
The Polish place name comes Wielogłowy in Poland again in the Malopolska province before.
History
His historic village form after Vilgelow was a line village. In 1633 it had members of the Below family as a fief and 1665 members of the Woyten family. Thereafter, the estate village passed into the possession of members of the Somnitz family and then to members of the Krockow family. Of the Krockows bought it in 1730 the Captain Ernst Ludwig von Below. Around 1784, there was a Vilgelow Vorwerk, a farmer within the district a neuangelegtes Vorwerk together with two farmers and a total of five households. 1804, the village was owned by the Crime Council Schulte in Stolp, and after that it was until 1859 the property of Christian Friedrich Schröder. There were then held several changes of ownership.
In 1910 Vilgelow counted 165 inhabitants. Their number increased to 1933 to 238 in 1939 and amounted to 203
By 1945 the community Vilgelow for official and civil registry district Reitz ( Redzikowo ) in the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania belonged. The municipal area was 992 hectares. The municipality was also the village next to Vilgelow Papritzfelde. In 1938 the estate was Vilgelow 651.5 acres, with 518.5 acres were farmland. The 350 -acre manor Papritzfelde had 329 acres of farmland. In addition to the two estates there were in the church Vilgelow no peasant possession. Last owner of the estate Vilgelow before 1945 was Margaret of Duisburg, last owner of the estate Papritzfelde Ernst von Duisburg.
Towards the end of the Second World War in 1945, Soviet troops occupied the village on March 9. After their departure, Poland took possession of the place. But still in 1957 to 200 inhabitants, only three or four families of Poland, the other German have been, many of them from East Prussia. Vilgelow was renamed Wielogłowy.
30 expelled from Vilgeloe villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 91 in the GDR.
The village with its 260 inhabitants, is today a part of the gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( Stolp 1975-1998 Voivodeship ).
Church
The population of Vilgelow before 1945 was almost exclusively Protestant denomination. The village itself belonged to the parish Vessin (now Polish: Wieszyno ) in Stolp county - town church in the Church of the Province of Pomerania Church of the Old Prussian Union. The village Papritzfelde ( Paprzyce ), however, belonged to the parish Sageritz ( Zagórzyca ) in the Church Stolp -Altstadt.
Since 1945, the population of Wielogłowy is predominantly Catholic. Both towns are now part of the same parish Zagórzyca ( Sageritz ), which is in the deanery in the diocese Główczyce Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are now in the cross church Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland incorporated.
School
A school there was not before 1945 in Vilgelow. The children attended schools in Vessin ( Wieszyno ) or in Sageritz ( Zagórzyca ).