Alt
Kolziglow (Kolczyglowy), Kreis Rummelsburg, Pommern
Alt Kolziglow is
important to me because it is the home village of my cousins, the Rudlaff
family of Berrien County, Michigan. I was able to identify this village as
family patriarch Carl Rudlaff's birth village though his death record. Carl
Rudlaff moved his family to Romansdorf in Kiev
Parish in the 1860's. There the Rudlaff's intermarried with the village
families including the Lehmanns that are part of my line. There were also
numerous Remus families working on outlying manorial estates but having
marriages and baptism in the church in this village.
Alt Kolziglow is a
village just about half way between Slupsk and Bytow in Kries Rummelsburg in
Pomerania; it is on Polish highway 209 near Barnow and Reinfeld. Both of the latter were
manorial estates associated with the Puttkamer family and having Remus workers.
It is situated between large hills.
It is a lovely old
village with an interesting church. The church was formerly Lutheran but now is
a Catholic Church. Here is a picture of the exterior and a picture of the
interior (the latter courtesy of Carolyn Casperson whose Wick family lived
here):
And
interesting old buildings:
Peter Hingst's
family is also from the village (Hingst-Recklinghausen@t-online.de). Here are
some additional details that he provided:
The church of
Kolziglow is the one in which the famous Chancellor of Imperial Germany, Otto
von Bismarck, was married in 1847. His bride was a Lady Johanna von Puttkamer
who lived in Reinfeld, few miles
to the southeast. The building was established in 1823 (which would say that
Carl Rudlaff may have been baptized inside its walls, just like some of my
ancestors were). Did you realize there was a separated belfry nearby, which
houses a bell of 1793?
Regards Peter Hingst
August Remus and
Wilhelmine Dahlke of Millburg Michigan lived
in Reinfeld mentioned in the
above paragraph probably as workers of the Puttkamer estate (see manorial farm for details of
life on these estates). Their child Paul Richard Franz Remus was born there on
25 December 1880. He was probably baptized in the Alt Kolziglow church and his
birth was recorded at the civil record office in Barnow mentioned above. This
family had just recently arrived in Reinfeld and was soon to leave for
Michigan.
Here
is a picture of that belfry mentioned by Peter Hingst above:
And
here is an entry from a book on the villages of Rummelburg:
Please send any information and queries to Bill Remus
at
July
31, 2012