Dąbrówka Mała, Lubusz Voivodeship
Dąbrówka Mała (until 1945 Dammer small or small - Damme ) is a village in Poland in the Lubusz Voivodship, community Szczaniec ( Stentsch ). Small Dammer was also the name of the associated Barbican and Castle.
Place
The German name of the town and the castle is derived from Damb, which means oak. The Farming place had 1821 190 inhabitants, in the 1880s, about 280, or 1939 302 277 Small Dammer was 1908 District Schmarse; the Gutsbezirk was incorporated in 1928 in the small rural community Dammer [ sic]. In 1935, the rural communities have been renamed in communities.
Estate and castle
The Gut Klein Dammer, to which the small Dammer castle part consisted of 605 acres. It was, together with Walmersdorf and Keltschen the family of almond, which inhabited the built in 1850 in the classical style castle from 1870. Max Mandel (1834-1910) and Eugenie of almond, born Walleiser, (1842-1890) were educated in the early 1880s by Martha Fontane their younger children Ella, Sophie, Victor and Erich. From this time many letters Martha Fontane come to their parents, in which she describes life in small Dammer.
Today the estate and the castle of the Castles family from Germany belongs. They bought the manor and the lands around 1995 and manage it since then. The farm was made after extensive renovations since 2002 and is home to almost back again cows and pigs. The castle is inhabited only on the first floor, there are too big and too costly renovations. Heating is by wood in old stoves, central heating, there is no hot water gets the family with the help of geysers.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Elisabeth Lupka (1902-1949), camp guard