Bierkowo
Bierkowo ( German Birkow ) is a village in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in Pomerania. It now belongs to the Gmina Slupsk ( Stolp rural municipality ) in the powiat Słupski the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Geographical location
Bierkowo lies about 6 km west of Slupsk on the road from Slupsk to 8 km from the village Bruskowo Wielkie ( United Brüskow ). The center of Bierkowo is 1 km south of this road. The nearest village is Bruskowo Wielkie. The nearest train station is located in Slupsk.
History
Bierkowo was originally a village streets. In the Prussian era Birkow was one of 18 royal villages that were under the Office Stolp. 1784 had Birkow: a Vorwerk, twelve farmers, two Kossäten, four Büdner, a schoolhouse and a shepherd's house with a total of 21 households. The domain managed 102 tomorrow morning in 2500, a farmer and 233 morning each of the two Kossäten. As was the Vorwerk Birkow in the spring of 1828 offered by the Prussian Finance Issues Koszalin for sale or lease, it included more than 891 morning. Around 1862, the scope of the Barbican had shrunk to 752 morning. 1925 were 131 residential buildings in the village. The municipality area was 1,265 hectares. 1939 counted 206 households and 781 inhabitants. By 1945 the place was, together with the municipalities United Brüskow (now Polish: Bruskowo Wielkie ), Grünhagen ( Wierzbięcin ), Small Brüskow ( Bruskowo Małe ) Schwolow ( Swołowo ) and Stone Forest ( Krzemienica ) for the district of Great Brüskow in the district of Stolp in the district of Koszalin the Prussian province of Pomerania. The registry office was also in the United Brüskow while the policeman in small Strellin ( Strzelinko ) had his office. District court district was Stolp.
Towards the end of World War II broke the Birkower residents on March 7, 1945, to escape from the approaching Red Army. Because of wintry road conditions they did not get far and had to turn back. In Birkow around 2,500 refugees had arrived from East and West Prussia, as well as from the surrounding villages. On March 8, 1945 Birkow was occupied by Soviet troops without a fight. Soon after Birkow was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. It started the immigration of Poles who initially mainly east of the Curzon line came from areas where they had been given the choice to either accept another nationality or having to emigrate. They occupied the houses and farmsteads. Subsequently, the complete expulsion of the German population started from Birkow because of Bierut Decrees. On 8 and 11 November 1945 on 16 August 1946 and in November 1947 displaced transports went to the West. 333 expelled from Birkow villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 316 in East Germany.
Birkow was renamed Bierkowo. The village is today a district of Gmina Slupsk in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). In 2009 the village had 921 inhabitants.
Development of the population
Church
Birkow was before 1945, without exception, Protestant. It belonged to the villages Gatz (now Gać ), Reblin ( Reblino ) Reddentin ( Redęcin ) Symbow ( Zebowo ) and Zitzewitz ( Sycewice ) Parish Symbow in church Stolp City in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. 1940 was one of the parish total of 2374 members of the congregation.
In 1895, an independent church was built in Birkow, but in the composite remained Symbow. Our own church initially had not the church. In 1906, the parish council decided with the approval of the Church cartridge Count Wilhelm von Zitzewitz on Zitzewitz and Count Paul von Below on Reddentin ( Birkow itself was patronage -free) to build a new church. On April 16 (Easter Sunday) in 1911 it was solemnly inaugurated service from the Pomeranian General Superintendent John Büchsel and the local pastor Reinhold Rathke. Since then, she rises widely visible on the filled- school pond.
Since 1945, the population of Bierkowo is predominantly Catholic. The church is today and Swołowo ( Schwolow ) branch church of the parish Bruskowo Wielkie ( United Brüskow ) in the Office of the Dean Ustka ( Stolpmünde ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland. On 18 November 1945 the church was re-consecrated ' and received the name of St. Joseph.
Today living here evangelical church members belong to the Holy Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
The Birkower school house was a handsome solid construction from the beginning of the 19th century before 1945. Frequently it has been expanded and renovated. Recently it had two spacious classrooms and two teachers apartments.
Others
In 1838 valuable Sassanian silver coins were found on the field by Mark Birkow during Excavation of a large stone, which were included in the Royal Coin Collection to Berlin.