Żelkówko
Żelkówko ( German Klein Silkow ) is a village in the powiat Słupski ( Stolp ) of the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Geographical location
Żelkówko located in Pomerania, approximately 15 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Slupsk ( Stolp ), 32 kilometers northwest of the city Bytów ( Buetow ) and six kilometers south-west of the church village Dębnica Kaszubska ( Rathsdamnitz ).
History
Small and large Silkow Silkow to have been a continuous feud possession in the earlier period, in which the families Zitzewitz and Wobeser, between which existed probably kinship shared. It should have then formed the two separate manors Silkow small and large Silkow over time. Both items were in the period 1337-1810 in possession of the Wobeser family. Around 1784 had small Silkow a Barbican, a water mill, a brickyard, five full- peasants, half peasant, three Kossäten, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, and at the field marks of the village a sheep farm and a saw mill with two cottages and a total of 29 households. 1810 sold Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Wobeser of both goods to his cousin Heinrich August Friedrich Ferdinand von Boehn on Scharsow for 32,000 dollars. 1812 drew the latter for small Silkow to manage the goods from here. 1845 a new manor house was built. 1852 Small Silkow was sold for 52,000 dollars to Hermann Neumann. Owned by the Neumann family, the estate was still 1938.
In 1925 were in small Silkow 34 residential buildings. 1939 were counted 59 households and 238 inhabitants. Besides the good there was in the village community eleven farms and an inn. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Klein Silkow Stolp in Pomerania Region of Pomerania. The municipal area was 1,285 acres in size. In the district, there were a total of five small Silkow Locations:
- Small Silkow
- Labuhnerbrück
- Mill
- Schnauzhof
- Schneidemühle
Towards the end of the Second World War, the villagers of small Silkow went on March 5, 1945 closed with the aid of an existing horse-drawn vehicles from treks in front of the approaching Red Army on the run. The trek took about Scharsow, Rathsdamnitz, Hebrondamnitz and came in two days just to Grapitz, where he was run over by Soviet troops. The villagers had to return. A villager was immediately taken and dragged away by the soldiers of the Red Army, three died on the way. After bringing up the rear of an SS division and a demolition squad had left the otherwise deserted village, small Silkow was occupied on March 7, 1945 by Soviet troops. Up to a farmstead at the Stolpe, burned down, there was no damage. The Russians took possession of the goods.
After the war, small Silkow was put together with all Pomerania under Polish administration. During the Soviet soldiers who occupied the estate continues, took over in 1945, Poland the village. Small Silkow was renamed Żelkówko. The German villagers have been displaced.
87 and sold in the GDR of 70 small Silkow villagers were later identified in the Federal Republic of Germany.
School
The small community Silkow in 1932 a one-step elementary school. A single teacher taught nearly 60 school children here. The school was attended by children of a part of the community Loitz.
Church
The population before 1945 in small Silkow present was a Protestant denomination. Small Silkow belonged to the parish Quack castle and thus to the church Stolp -Altstadt.
Personalities: sons and daughters of the town
- Julius Heinrich von Boehn (1820-1893), a Prussian officer, Lieutenant-General last
- Oktavio Philip of Boehn (1824-1899), a Prussian officer, most recently General of Infantry