Kluki, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kluki ( German Klucken, Kashubian Klëki ) is a village in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and is located in the rural community Smołdzino in powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) on the shores of Lake Leba. It was the last place where the - now extinct - Slowinski language was spoken.
Geographical Location and Transport
The fishing and farming village Kluki located in Pomerania, about seven kilometers east of Smołdzino ( Schmolsin ) within the Slowinski Park Narodowy and destination of the herkommenden of the voivodeship road 213. A rail connection no longer exists since 1945, after the abolition of the railway line Stolp Fork Kuhnhof - Schmolsin the stumbling tracks.
History
Kluki originally consisted of three settlements, namely the Schmolsiner Klucken, the Selesener Klucken and Zemminer Klucken. The two settlements have been abandoned in the 20th century. All three settlements were fishing villages that were founded by larger locations, ie Schmolsin (now Smołdzino ) Selesen (now Zelazo ) and Zemmin (now Ciemino ). The oldest settlement were the Schmolsiner Klucken that are occupied in the 17th century under the name Wittok.
In 1939 lived in Klucken 660 people in 154 households in 97 houses. The village belonged to the district of Stolp in the administrative region of Pomerania Pomerania. The municipality area was 374 hectares. In the community Klucken there were a total of four Locations:
- Klucken
- Pawelke
- Selesener Klucken
- Zemminer Klucken
Klucken was then part of official, registry office and gendarmerie district Schmolsin, official court it was associated with Stolp.
Towards the end of World War II Klucken was occupied without a fight on March 9, 1945 by the Red Army. As everywhere in the stop band on the Baltic Sea, the inhabitants had to leave the village immediately. In May, they were allowed to return. After the war Klucken was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. In 1946 the first Poles were resettled in the village. The village was renamed by the Poles in Kluki. On the night of January 3, 1947, the first expulsion from Kluki.
192 expelled from Klucken villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany and 342 in East Germany.
The village is today a district of Gmina Smołdzino in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Church
Before 1945, the vast number of inhabitants of Klucken Protestant denomination. The village belonged to the parish Schmolsin within the church district Stolp - old part of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
After 1945 the church compound remained after Smołdzino exist embedded in a Catholic parish with the name Parafia Trojce Świętej ( " Holy Trinity " ), the ( Glowitz ) belongs within the Archdiocese of Gdańsk for Główczyce deanery in the Diocese of Pelplin. Evangelical Church members are looked after by the Parish Office in Slupsk from Kirchdorf is Główczyce in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church.
School
The four-stage in 1932, the elementary school had four classes, three teachers and 145 school children.