Dargikowo
Dargikowo ( German Darkow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is part of the municipality ( gmina ) Białogard ( Belgard ) in the powiat Białogardzki.
Geographical location
Dargikowo is located four kilometers east of Białogard and can be reached from the town of on a side road connection. Nearest railway station is Białogard.
History
Darkow was a farming village, which had in 1931 an area of 1043.9 hectares. Farms from ten to three hundred acres worried here agriculture, in addition, there were six day laborers houses and a community center. Above all, rye, oats, wheat, potatoes and fodder beet was cultivated, the fruit yield ranged only for their own use.
The community Darkow belonged to the official and the civil registry district Pumlow. Last incumbent mayor before 1945 were Ernst Schwandt, Chief Administrator Artur Götzke and registrar Klemp. The country Jägermeister from Siedkow took the police duties, District Court District was Belgard.
Darkow was occupied during the first days of March, without the fighting and destruction of Soviet troops. The refugee population were overhauled after a few kilometers of the Red Army and forced to return. The expulsion of the population took place in the years 1946 and 1947. Darkow since then is as Dargikowo to Poland.
Church
Darkow was with Pumlow, Klempin and Dubberow to the parish church Siedkow in Belgard county of the Church of the Evangelical Church of Pomerania Old Prussian Union. In 1940 the parish counted a total of 2151 members of the congregation. The church patronage held Rittergutsbesitzer von Kleist in Dubberow. .
Today Dargikowo belongs to the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
School
Since at least 1770 Darkow had a village own schoolhouse. 1795 ranged Pastor francs field in accordance with the municipality at the Royal Consistory in Koszalin an application for construction of a new school building to replace the current dilapidated house a. The request was refused. Only in 1820 was able to build from its own resources, a new representative schoolhouse.
As in 1840 with a class size of forty children, the school-room was too small, was built on the east side of the house from the barn and stables to celebrate a new, and finally there was 1866, the inauguration of an entirely new school building.