Ulikowo

Ulikowo ( German Wulkow ) is a village in Stargard ( Stargard in Pomerania ) in Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

Ulikowo ( Wulkow ) is located in Eastern Pomerania, about 7 kilometers east of the city of Stargard and 38 kilometers east of the city of Szczecin ( Stettin). South of the town flows the river Krampehl. North of the town there is a hill Cossacks mountain.

History

Wulkow was mentioned in a document from the year 1229, with the Pomeranian Duke Barnim I of the Order of St. John the possession of Wulkow confirmed with the right to settle there German. Wulkow was later a fief of St John Sonnenburg. The St. John's lieutenant-general of Blankensee bequeathed his rights to the estate in his will, dated July 8, 1732 the son of the royal Prussian Captain Christoph Henning von Papstein. This was then invested on 13 May 1732 by the Government of the Order to Sonnenberg with the Vorwerk. Later the estate whose sons Hasso Ernst and Jakob Christoph von Papstein was awarded. In 1750, the estate came into the possession of the bailiff Andreas Jordan, his son Johann Philipp Wilhelm Jordan left it in the family. When he went into liquidation, the estate had to be court- auctioned to the highest bid. The contract was awarded at that time Kaspar Otto von Wedel.

The village belonged to Wulkow 1780 Vorwerk, eight cottages, a windmill, the property was the miller, a blacksmith shop, a tavern, a schoolmaster, 22 hearths (households) and a church. At the beginning of the 19th century a reorganization of gutsherrlich - peasant ownership ratio took place, said to emancipation '. The farmers were henceforth no longer obligated to provide clamping services to the farm.

By 1945 Wulkow belonged to Pomerania in the Prussian province of Pomerania. Before 1945, the Good was owned by the Nicolai family.

After the region was conquered and occupied by the end of the Second World War by the Red Army, it was - like all of Pomerania - placed under Polish administration. The German village was awarded the Polish name Ulkikowo. It started the immigration of Poles who ousted the villagers from their homes and from their farms. The native German population was expelled to about 1947 on the basis of the so-called Bierut Decrees from the village.

Personalities

In the town births

• David Hollaz (1648-1713), Evangelical Lutheran dogmatists

Other

• Peter Blankensee, called flash Peter ', a colonel in the Prussian Army and a close confidant of King Frederick II, spent his twilight years.