Sulechowo

Sulechowo ( German (wholesale ) Soltikow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is part of the rural municipality ( gmina wiejska ) Malechowo ( Malchow ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ).

Geographical Location

The farming village Sulechowo lies thirteen kilometers southwest of the county town Sławno ( Schlawe ) on a side street off Niemica ( Nemitz ) along Route 6 (Szczecin - Gdańsk ) on Lejkowo ( Leikow ) to Polanów ( Pollnow ) leads. Station is Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ) on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk.

Neighboring communities of Sulechowo are: in the west Niemica ( Nemitz ) and Bartolino ( Bartlin ), in the north Paproty ( Parpart ), to the east Święcianowo ( Wiesenthal ) and Żegocino ( blessing Thin), in the southeast Lejkowo ( Leikow ) and in the south Sierakowo Sławieńskie ( Zirchow ).

The road Sulechowo village located in the southern valley of the Grabowa ( Grabow ) on a flat undulating ground moraine at an altitude of about 30 meters above the sea level. The highest elevations are 105 meters ( Schwarzenberg ) and 103 meters (Great Soltikower mountain ) south of the place from which one can see on a clear day to the Baltic Sea.

Place name

The spelling Soltikow has become established only since the 18th century. Before you wrote Soldekow, Zoldekow and - similar to the present name - Sulechowe.

History

The two - later combined to form a community - large settlements ( Sulechowo ) and small Soltikow ( Sulechówko ) were probably already in the Middle Ages. 1267 Soltikow first mentioned, as it appears in a list of places that of peers of the Church in Nemitz (now Polish: Niemica ) the Camminer Bishop Hermann imputed. 1295 gave the Knights Virchewitz the monastery Buckow 50 hooves bey the desolate village Soltikow. And in 1409 signing Hennynk Mandüwel of Zoldekow an expiation letter. Of the Manteuffel the fief to the proceeds of Rumia. Then Hans is mentioned as owner of the Younger Schlieffen.

In 1784, United has Soltikow 11 farmers, 2 and 1 Kossäten schoolhouse. 1818 live 159 inhabitants, whose number rose to 447 in 1864 already and 1925 already amounted to 474. Case Soltikow had 1939 as a cohesive community Parts A total of 683 residents in 175 households.

On March 2, 1945 Great Soltikow was occupied by the Red Army. The German population was initially able to continue to live here, came to Polish families. On 1 September 1946, the United Soltikower were evacuated on Sławno and Szczecin.

Coal mining in the United Soltikow

In the years 1920-1924 from the North German mining company shares ( NOBAG ) under the direction of the mine director Richard Koch in Great Soltikow was operated coal mining: south of the village could lignite are removed. She was about ten meters below the surface, and their layer was 7-8 meters thick. The coal, which was later made into briquettes, professionals designated as a quality- full, but proved to be uneconomical and their degradation was therefore set.

Office Soltikow

By 1945 the community Soltikow formed (upper and lower case Soltikow ( Sulechówko ) ) with Kuhtz ( Kusice ) Leikow ( Lejkowo ) and Nemitz ( Niemica ) ( with Bartlin ( Bartolino ) ) the District Soltikow district Schlawe i Pom. in the district of the Prussian province of Pomerania Pomerania. The last German Head Office were Raasch, Driving bush and Raddatz.

Registry office Soltikow

All the mentioned municipalities and additionally Söllnitz ( Zielenica ) were united to the registry office Soltikow.

Church

The inhabitants of Great Soltikow to 1945 were exclusively Protestant. With Leikow ( Lejkowo ), the village in the parish of small Soltikow ( Sulechówko ) was the parish that a branch church in the parish Nemitz ( Niemica ), for its part, that the church circle Rügenwalde ( Darłowo ) belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania in the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Last German clergyman was Rev. Martin Voßberg.

Today, the inhabitants of Sulechowo predominantly Catholic denomination. The village belongs to the Parafia Sulechówko. The evangelical church members will be supervised by the parish office in Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church in Poland.

School

The school building was on the eastern outskirts of major Soltikow and was rebuilt in the 30s of the 20th century as a primary school teacher with apartment. The school was attended by children from large and small Soltikow. Last German school governor was Artur league.