Redzikowo
Redzikowo ( German Reitz, Kashubian Redzëkòwò ) is a village in Pomerania. It now belongs to the rural community of Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the district of Slupsk the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Here was to be built by 2015 of the U.S. missile defense shield.
Geographical Location and Transport
Redzikowo located in Pomerania, six kilometers east of the county town of Slupsk on the regional road 6 ( former German Reich Straße 2, now also European Route 28) Szczecin-Gdańsk. On the eastern edge borders an occupied as a military airfield. Station is four kilometers north location Jezierzyce Słupskie ( Jeseritz ) to the state railway line No 202 Stargard in Pomerania - Gdansk.
Neighboring communities of Redzikowo are: in the west of the city Slupsk with the current district and former farming village Ryczewo ( Ristow ), in the north Jezierzyce and Grąsino ( Granzin ), to the east Wielogłowy ( Vilgelow ) and in the south Wieszyno ( Vessin ).
History
The old estate village Reitz is a historic village form after a hamlet. Already in 1288 the place is mentioned in a document, confirming the Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania to the Premonstratensian nunnery in Stolp possession of the village. 1552 Reitz was owned by the family Woyten. Later the family lived here Somnitz and Krockow. Of these, the estates of the Prussian colonel Asmus should have acquired by Bandemer. 1781 they were transferred to the Major Georg Ludwig von Katzler.
In 1784, Reitz had a Barbican, a farmer, a pitcher, the Vorwerk Neiderzin, the colony of New Reitz and a water mill - a total of 16 households. To 1814 were those of Katz Jewellers owner of Reitz (and also of Vessin ), then the Arnold family, the last of the Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnold on Mr Reitz came before 1945.
The municipality Reitz was before 1945 as a dwelling place: Neiderzin (Polish: Niedarzyno ), 1.5 kilometers north- west of the village. The community Reitz made before 1945 with the communities Vessin ( Wieszyno ) Vilgelow ( Wielogłowy ) and Warbelow ( Warblewo ) has its own administrative district in the county Stolp in Pomerania Region of the Prussian province of Pomerania. Furthermore, the town was the seat of a civil registry office. The gendarmerie district was Ristow ( Ryczewo ), and the district court district Stolp. In the einklassigen elementary school in Reitz before 1945 about 40 children were taught.
Towards the end of the Second World War the inhabitants of Reitz occurred on 8 March 1945 in the trek to flee from the approaching Red Army, and came up to Marienfelde (now Polish Świtały ) that the Good Lojow ( Łojewo ) belonged. They were overrun by the Red Army and returned in late April 1945 back to her home village. The deportation of the German population due to the Bierut Decrees was not until 1950, after the poles of the airfield was transferred from the Russians. Reitz received the Polish names Redzikowo. The village is today a district of Gmina Slupsk in powiat Słupski the Pomeranian Voivodeship ( to 1998 Voivodeship Stolp ).
Airfield
In Redzikowo there is the military airfield Slupsk - Redzikowo.
Church
The population of Reitz was until 1945, 95% Protestant. The village was in the parish Vessin (now Polish: Wieszyno ) the parish, which belonged to the Stolp - town church circle in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. The church patronage practiced from last Rittergutsbesitzer Frederick William Arnold. Last German clergyman before 1945 was Rev. Martin Reinke, who was superintendent of the Synod Stolp City at the same time and his apartment had in the district town. Today the numerically few evangelical church members belong to Parafia Slupsk ( Stolp ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland prior to 1945 were the Catholic Church members - 4.6% of the total population - to the parish Stolp. Today, they are assumed in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg of the Catholic Church in Poland in the Parafia Wieszyno ( Vessin ) in the Office of the Dean Wschód Slupsk ( Stolp -East). For members of the military, there is also the military parish Parafia Wojskowej Slupsk - Redzikow.