Wiekowice

Wiekowice ( German ( re) Wieck, Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a village in Pomerania. It now belongs to the rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) in the powiat Slawienski ( Schlawe ) of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Geographical Location

Wiekowice is a farming village, situated in the glacial valley of the Grabowa ( Grabow ) from which the landscape is determined. The town is intersected by a secondary road ( European route 28 ) Szczecin-Gdańsk with the province road 203 Koszalin ( Koszalin ) Darłowo (Rügenwalde ) Ustka connecting the national road 6 ( Stolpmünde ). The railway line Stargard - Gdansk runs through the south of the city, and the train station is Wiekowo (Alt Wieck ), a district of Wiekowice. The highest elevation of the site is 25 meters above the sea level.

Neighboring communities of Wiekowice are: in the west Wierciszewo ( wall Hagen), in the northwest Bielkowo ( Beelkow ), in the north Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ), to the east Przsytawy ( Pirbstow ), in the southeast Grabowo ( Martin Hagen ) and Grabówko ( New Martin Hagen) and the south Dąbrowa ( Damerow ).

Place name

The place name comes earlier also as Wieck, Wyk, Wich, Wych, The Wiecke. The entire flat ridge, lies on the Wiekowice with Wiekowo and Dobiesław, was formerly called "on the Wieck ". The name is likely derived from the Latin " vicus ", meaning "village". The vernacular explains the name of " affwäke " = " different " and describes the sight of the place from Buckow monastery ago, to the place once belonged.

History

The village Wieck was created in the 14th century as Hagen Hufendorf. Already in 1258 came the land on which later the village was founded, to the monastery Buckow. After the Reformation in 1535 in Pomerania Wieck fell to the ducal office Rügenwalde.

Around 1780 there were in Wieck: 1 mayor, 20 farmers, 2 Landkossäten, 3 Straßenkossäten, 1 Büdner, 1 shepherd huts and 35 fireplaces. The village was one of the largest in the region.

By 1945 the community Wieck belonged to the locations Abtshagen (now Polish: Dobiesław ) Beelkow ( Bielkowo ) Eventin ( Iwięcino ) and wall Hagen ( Wierciszewo ) for District Eventin district Schlawe i Pom. in the administrative region of Pomerania. Last German municipality mayor was Reinhold Rubow. Civil ceremony Wieck was associated with Abtshagen to the registry office Abtshagen. Still existing civil records from the period before 1945 are now in the registry office Darłowo (Rügenwalde ).

On 5 March 1945, the town of Alt Wieck was occupied by Soviet troops. The population then in Wieck himself had to suffer severe fate: executions, disappearances, ill-treatment ( particularly of women and girls ) made ​​people quite and powerless. In the aftermath of the war Polish families came to Wieck, and on August 9, 1946, the German inhabitants were forcibly expelled with hand luggage.

Wieck came as Wiekowice under Polish administration and is now a part of Gmina Darłowo in powiat Slawienski the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998: Koszalin Voivodeship ).

Church

The village ( New ) Wieck belonged until 1945 with Old Wieck ( Wiekowo ) Parish Abtshagen ( Dobiesław ). The vast majority of inhabitants belonged to the Evangelical Church, whose church was the village church Abtshagen. The parish was in the church circle Rügenwalde in the ecclesiastical province of the Church of the Old Prussian Pomerania Union. Last German minister was Pastor Friedrich Jahn.

Today the population of Wiekowice belongs mainly to the Polish Catholic Church. The evangelical church members are from the parish Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Wielkopolska supervised by the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg (ie Lutheran ) Church.

School

There was until 1945 in Wieck two schools. Both buildings (built around 1895) were provided with teacher zweiklassig and apartments. The school I took the kids up from Old Wieck ( Wiekowo ). The last German school teacher holder was Gramzow. In school II, the children were taught from Wieck, last edit by teachers Dorow.