Starkowo, SÅ‚upsk County
Starkowo ( German Starkow ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Geographical location
The village is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 14 kilometers northwest of the city of Slupsk ( Stolp ) and nine kilometers south-southwest of the city along the Baltic Ustka ( Stolpmünde ).
History
Starkov was in older time a property of the monastery town Belbuck or of its branch, the Premonstratensian nunnery Stolp. So it was a so-called monastery village. It was founded as well as the neighboring villages Gallenzin, Horst and Mützenow by German settlers under German law. In ancient feudal letters of 1355, 1450 and 1540, it appears as a property of the Krummel family. After 1534 the Diet of Treptow the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania was decided, and shortly thereafter the possession of the monasteries was secularized, it became the possession of the ducal house. At the Prussian era Starkov was one of the eighteen royal villages that were under the Office Stolp.
Before the end of World War II Starkow belonged to the district of Stolp, administrative region of Pomerania, Pomerania. The municipal area was 856 hectares. The municipality Starkow belonged to the village of Starkow the residential places Gallenzin and station Gallenzin - Saleske. In 1925 were in Starkow 83 residential buildings. 1939 counted 116 households and 520 inhabitants.
End of the war, the community received an eviction notice, however, could not be performed because the Soviet troops were advancing rapidly at the approach of the Red Army. The village was taken without a fight on March 8, 1945. Under the subsequent Russian occupation, the village has suffered greatly. After all of Pomerania was placed under Polish administration after the war, came on 25 September 1945, the Poles in the village. They set up an administrative office and confiscated the houses, homes and farmsteads. In the following years, the villagers have been displaced. Starkov was renamed Starkowo.
122 and Come in the GDR 144 of Starkov villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The village has about 200 inhabitants.