Wiejkowo (german: Groß Weckow) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Wolin __NOTOC__ Gmina Wolin is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Wolin, which lies approximately south-west of Kamień Pomorski and north of ...

, within Kamień County,

West Pomeranian Voivodeship The West Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as the West Pomerania Province, is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals 22 892.48 km² (8,838.84 sq mi), and in 2021, it was ...

, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of

Wolin Wolin (; formerly german: Wollin ) is the name both of a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, just off the Polish coast, and a town on that island. Administratively, the island belongs to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Wolin is separated from th ...

, south of

Kamień Pomorski Kamień Pomorski (; csb, Kamiéń; german: Cammin or ''Kammin'') is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast. It is the seat of an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Kamień County whic ...

, and north of the regional capital Szczecin. The village has a population of 300.

History

The von Guentersberg family governed Weckow since 1299 until they died out in 1763 and the von Berg family received the town. Alexandrine von Berg inherited Weckow from her father and with her marriage to Albert von Ploetz, the town was in the possession of the von Ploetz family until 1945. Under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, the region became part of Poland after World War II, and 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.Zyśk, Daniel ''Polish Press Agency'', Science and Scholarship, 2014
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References

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