Gaworkowo

Gaworkowo ( German Gauerkow ) is a village in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located in the powiat Świdwiński ( Schivelbein ) and belongs to the urban and rural community Połczyn -Zdrój ( Bad Polzin ).

Geographical location

Gaworkowo is located six kilometers south of Połczyn -Zdrój on the national road No. 163 after Czaplinek ( Tempelburg ). The spatial boundary is also the limit for Szczecinecki powiat ( county Pommern ) in the northern area of the Drawski Landscape Park ( Landscape Park Pomerania ).

Name

Gauerkow was formerly also called Gurkow. Both names can be attributed to the Slavic word " Gora " ( = mountain ), derived from the location of the village on the Polziner plateau. In the 17th century it was called the Good Chartow.

History

1628 as landlords Gerd von Manteuffel in Poplow (now Polish: Popielewo ) called. Later, the estate passed to the Manteuffel in Hohenwardin ( Wardyn Gorny ), until it was parceled out in 1842 and deleted as a manor.

While in 1867 still lived 189 inhabitants in Gauerkow, there were only 153 in 1939 there were 22 farms located in size from five to 20 acres and two large farms.

By 1945 Gauerkow lay in the district Belgard ( Persante ). The municipality was part of the official and the civil registry district Bramstädt. Last incumbents were Georg Klix and Gerhard Ludwig and Gustav Cornell. Oberland hunters Iwanski from Bramstädt took the police task was. District court district was Bad Polzin.

When the Red Army invaded numerous buildings were destroyed. The German population was expelled until 1946. Gauerkow came as Gaworkowo to Poland and is today part of the urban and rural community Połczyn -Zdrój.

Church

Ecclesiastical Gauerkow was supervised by the congregation of St. Mary's Church in Bad Polzin from. Thus, it belonged to the Church of the Church Province of Pomerania Belgard county in the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Today Gaworkowo lies in the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.

School

Until 1841 Gauerkower children went to school in New Liepenfier district Pommern. Remembered until 1945, the old field name " stick bush ": the leading through the woods and breaking trail was secured with truncheons.

The school building newly built service today as kindergarten. It was built a new school house.