Rajkowy
Rajkowy ( kaschub. Rôjkòwë, German Raikau ) is a town in northern Poland in the Silesian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Wojwodschaft Danzig). It is located in powiat Tczewski ( Dirschau ) and has 1,677 inhabitants.
Geographical location
Rajkowy is located on the Wierzyca ( heel), a left tributary of the Vistula River, about 15 km west of the Vistula. The nearest major town is something Northwest of Pelplin Starogard Gdański ( Prussian Stargard ). The village is about 5 km north of Pelplin, 16 km south of Tczew and 45 km south of Gdańsk.
History
By deed of 18 November 1292 issued in Schwetz, confirmed Mestwin II Duke of Pomerania to the monastery Oliva villages Rajkowy, council office, Bresnau, Osterwiek and Schönwalring.
Rajkowy was occupied 1295-1314 with German settlers.
1309 reached Pomerania in the possession of the Teutonic Order and thus the German Teutonic Order Prussia, who was forced to resign (later called West Prussia ) to the crown of Poland, the area in 1466 as Royal Prussia. From the Reformation Pommerellen was largely unaffected, only some Mennonites settled in the 17th century in the area, but they left West Prussia in the Napoleonic period and again in 1870.
1772 Rajkowy from Royal Prussia ( West Prussia Prussia occidentalis = ) to the Kingdom of Prussia.
After the circle was 1772 Dirschau become Prussian, Reykau 1789 was designated as a royal village, which included a water mill and a saw mill.
Inhabitants, led by Mayor January Hillar and teachers in January Kwitnowski were involved on 12 February 1846 on the anti-German uprising in Starogard Gdański.
On January 10, 1920 after the First World War, the magisterial districts of Forestry District and Pelplin Pelplin and hence the rural community Rajkowy were assigned as part of the so-called Polish Corridor to Poland. On October 26, 1939 its preliminary renaming Rajkowy in Raikau.
After the invasion of the Red Army and the end of the Second World War in 1945 the German part of the population was displaced.
In the years 1975-1998 Rajkowy belonged administratively to the province of Danzig.
Nov - ost.info wrote on June 6, 2011: " The district administration Tczew in northern Poland has granted planning permission for the proposed by Kulczyk Investments coal-fired power plant in Rajkowy at Pelplin. According to the Notice of the district administration building permit for the construction of coal-fired power plant Elektrownia Polnoc with an installed capacity of approximately 2x1.000 MW applies. "
Sons and daughters of the town
- Leon Gawin - Gostomski ( born December 17, 1881 in Wąbrzeźno, † December 29, 1937 in Fordon ), pastor, 1909-1937 Member of the Scientific Society in Thorn, died after a long lung disease