Dąbrówka, Słupsk County
Dąbrówka ( German Damerkow, Stolp, Kashubian Dabrówka ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Damnica ( Hebrondamnitz ) in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ).
Geographical Location and Transport
Dąbrówka located in Pomerania, about 30 kilometers east of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in a Grundmoränenebene between the rivers Łupawa ( Lupow ) and Leba ( Leba ). The urban area is dominated by arable land and finds its southwestern boundary by the Jezioro Dąbrówka ( Damerkower lake).
A side street of Damno ( dams ) to Grapice ( Grapitz ) and continue to Potegowo ( Pottangow ) on the Polish national road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, today Europastraße 28) leads through the village. The nearest train station Strzyżyno Słupskie is six kilometers away.
Place name
The German name Damerkow still referred to another place in Pomerania, the - the crow - 40 km further south at Bytów ( Buetow ), and today also means Dąbrówka. The Polish place name comes Dąbrówka in Poland more than 80 times.
History
Damerkow was anciently field mark the westerly Vieschen (now Polish: Wiszno ). Around 1784, there were seven farmers here. As the district of Vieschen it led in 1871, the label expansion Damerkow and 1895 Good Damerkow. 1908, the two districts of Rural Damerkow and Good Damerkow were called.
Last Owner of the property was in the period 1924-1928 Werner Dieckmann. At that time, the 397 -acre estate on 367 acres of arable land, 19 acres meadow, two acres of woodland and nine acres of water surface. Then Damerkow was settled.
Before 1945 Damerkow belonged to the district of Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania. In 1925 were in Damerkow 29 residential buildings. In 1933 180 residents were registered in Damerkow. 1939 were counted 47 households and 195 inhabitants. There were 19 farms available. The municipality area was a total of 451 hectares.
Towards the end of World War II Damerkow was occupied on March 9, 1945 by the Soviet Army and soon found it under Polish administration. Several villagers were i Pom in prisons to Stolp, Pommern. Koszalin abducted and remained partially lost. In May 1945 four Polish militiamen came to the village. Since about mid-July 1945, Poland took over some farms, and a Polish mayor was appointed. There now began the expulsion of the villagers. The former German mayor Klix was deported in autumn 1947. 45 expelled from Damerkow villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 94 in the GDR.
Damerkow was renamed Dąbrówka. The place is now part of Gmina Damnica in powiat Słupski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Voivodeship Stolp ). Dąbrówka is seat of a Schulz Office of Dąbrówka Jeziorka ( small hydro ), Świtały ( Marie Felde ) and Wiszno ( Vieschen ). Here now live 145 inhabitants.
Church
Before 1945, the Damerkower inhabitants were Protestant. The village was with 13 surrounding villages in the parish dams (now Polish: Damno ) in the Church Stolp - Old Town ( Stare Slupsk Miastko ) eingepfarrt Ostsprengel in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania. Last German minister was Pastor Magnus Erdmann.
Since 1945, the population of Dąbrówka is almost exclusively Catholic. The village is still one church to Damno ( dams ), but now the Catholic Deanery Główczyce ( Glowitz ) in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland belonging. Here surviving Protestant church members are oriented to the church in Główczyce out the Branch Church of the Cross Church in Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical - Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
On February 1, 1933 Damerkow got its own school. Previously, the children attended schools in Grapitz (now Polish: Grapice ) and Lojow ( Łojewo ). A new school building was inaugurated on 13 December 1939. The last German teachers were Max Köhler and Hans Ruge.
Local personalities
- Kurt Kroening (1893 - after 1951 ), German politician ( LDP).