Sittno (Sittnow), Kreis Flatow, West Prussia
Sitno (Sittnow) is a village just
south of Vandsburg and north of Mrotschen.
Blacksmith August Remus and his wife Rosa Piekarska had many children as they moved from estate to
estate in the area. Their daughter Wilhelmine Justine
married and settled here in Sittnow. After August
died in the 1880's, the family moved to the Chicago area. Contact Rhoda
Mackenzie hbmack@comcast.net for more
information on this family.
Here is a picture of the village:
The
village has a nice church (previously Lutheran but now Catholic), rectory and
school shown in the following pictures:
Also a
mill still exists in the village:
The
graveyard has both German and Polish graves and is well maintained but few
German gravestones remain.
Here
is a 1939 map with details of the village:
Here
is a map of the area from 1914; Sittnow is just north
of Mrotschen and between Pempersin and Wiesenthal:
Following
is a postcard of this village:
In
1809 a census was made of all the people in this village,
click below to see the names:
An
earlier 1766 Census lists these residents:
Click here to go to other West Prussia Villages.
Please
send any queries to Bill Remus at
May
28, 2009