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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Wiejkowo
| settlement_type = Village
| total_type =  
| image_skyline = Wiejkowo kościół.jpg
| image_caption = Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary church in Wiejkowo
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship|West Pomeranian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kamień County|Kamień]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Wolin|Wolin]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|49|N|14|41|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 300
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| registration_plate = ZKA
}}
'''Wiejkowo''' {{IPAc-pl|w|j|e|I|'|k|o|w|o}}, until 1945 named (in [[German language|German]]) '''Groß Weckow''', is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Wolin]], within [[Kamień County]], [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in north-western Poland.<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}}</ref> It lies approximately {{convert|6|km|mi|0}} south-east of [[Wolin (town)|Wolin]], {{convert|19|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of [[Kamień Pomorski]], and {{convert|45|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of the regional capital [[Szczecin]]. It is situated on the western shore of Ostrowo Lake in the historic region of [[Pomerania]].

The village has a population of 300.

==History==
The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler [[Mieszko I]] around 967.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Labuda|first=Gerard|year=1993|title=Chrystianizacja Pomorza (X–XIII stulecie)|magazine=Studia Gdańskie|language=pl|location=Gdańsk-Oliwa|volume=IX|page=47}}</ref> Following the fragmentation of Poland, it formed part of the [[Duchy of Pomerania]] (which since 1181 became part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]). German-Danish von Guentersberg family governed Weckow since 1299 until they died out in 1763; then the von Berg family received the village. Alexandrine von Berg inherited Weckow from her father and with her marriage to Albert von Ploetz, the village was in the possession of the von Ploetz family until 1945.<ref>[http://worldhistory.de/wnf/navbar/wnf.php?oid=13762&sid= Estates of the von Guentersberg family since 1299 till 1763, then till 1945 von Ploetz family]</ref>

Under the terms of the [[Potsdam Agreement]], the region became again part of Poland after World War II, and [[Polish population transfers (1944–1946)|Poles expelled from Soviet-occupied eastern Poland]] were resettled in the region.

==The Curmsun disc==
The [[Curmsun disc]] was reportedly part of a Viking Age hoard discovered in 1841 in the crypt of the ruined wooden church at Wiejkowo, when the new church was being constructed. Yet it apparently remained there until after WWII. Then it became the property of the local Sielski family, but its importance remained unknown. It was kept in the family as an oddity. After the family later moved to Sweden, in 2014, 11-year-old Maja Sielska showed the disc to her history teacher; its significance was then understood. The discovery of the disc was reported in the press on 5 December 2014.<ref>[http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,402921,polish-family-treasure-an-archaeological-sensation-in-sweden.html Zyśk, Daniel ''Polish Press Agency'', Science and Scholarship, 2014]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Gmina Wolin}}

[[Category:Villages in Kamień County]]
[[Category:Populated lakeshore places in Poland]]

Wiejkowo - Revision history

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