Wilczkowo, Åšwidwin County

Wilczkowo ( German name Voelzkow ) is a village in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gmina Brzeżno ( Briesen ) in a circle Świdwin ( Schivelbein ).

Geographical Location

Wilczkowo is located five kilometers south of Świdwin to the voivodeship 162 Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg ) Świdwin - Drawsko Pomorskie ( Pomerania ) and is located at the southern tip of the 36 acres and formerly known as Völzkower lake. This closes without a connection to the Buchholzsee formerly known as. The train station of Wilczkowo Świdwin is on the railway line Stargard - Gdańsk.

History

In the land book of the Neumark place Voltzikow in 1337 is mentioned. 1499 afford the Voltzkow to Voltzkow the Elector Joachim fealty. 1630 the estate Voelzkow is awarded with the Schivelbeiner Burglehen to Georg Wilhelm Karsten von Zastrow, and 1650 it gets to the Schivelbeiner Mayor Heinrich Heinrici.

1882, there are two big estates of 355 or 631 acres, and a brickyard, and 1884 are called four farmers, one Kossät and a Büdner. In 1939 there is also a distillery, dairy and starch and flakes factory.

In 1939, living in the 655 acre community 176 inhabitants in 40 households. 154 people were employed in agriculture, of which the seed production of potatoes and grain, and a warmblood horse breeding are worth mentioning.

Voelzkow formed until 1945 with Briesen (now Polish: Brzeżno ) Kussenow ( Koszanowo ) and Venzlaffshagen ( Więcław ) the official and the civil registry district Briesen in the District Court area Schivelbein. Until the district reform in 1932 Voelzkow belonged to the circle Schivelbein, the rose then in the district Belgard ( Persante ).

On March 5, 1945 Voelzkow was occupied by Soviet troops. The village was in Polish hands, and the resident population was expelled. Today Wilczkowo is a district of the municipality Brzeżno in back loop formed Schivelbein.

Church

Parish

By 1945 Voelzkow with Kussenow was connected to a church congregation. Kirchdorf was Voelzkow. With the parishes Briesenund Venzlaffshagen the parish church circle Schivelbein Venzlaffshagen in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania in the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union. In 1940, the parish Voelzkow - Kussenow counts 386 members of the congregation of 962 in the whole parish. The church had the patronage Rittergutsbesitzer Schmeling and Strelow (both Voelzkow ) holds. Last German minister was Pastor Ernst Gauger.

Today Wilczkowo belongs to the parish of Koszalin ( Koszalin ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church.

Village Church

The former three-sided closed timber church was demolished in 1926 and replaced in 1933 by a new warped from clinkers. On the covered up with beaver tails roof a roof turret of wood was attached with copper- clad tip.

According to legend, should be sunk in the lake Völzkower bells, which, as in Vineta, sound with kindly weather up to the village up.