Amalienhof

German name: Amalienhof
Todays name: Wierzchoslaw
District: Cammin
Todays district: Zachodniopomorskie
Location: 14°46` east, 53°39` north
Location description: approx.. 10 km north of Gollnow, approx.. 27 km northeast from Stettin, approx.35 km behind the GermanPolish border
Religion: ev.luth.
Church destrictl: At first belonged to Stepenitz. Later with Hackenwalde and Kattenhof (both circle Naugard) together independent municipality up to combination of the Pfarrstelle with some third clergyman in Gollnow (1811).
Building of churches: 1906-1907 application of the church building in brick; rectangular ship with three-lateral choir, wood ton. At the north side square tower with inserted stairs
Surface: 891.0 hectars, of it 381.3 hectars forest (1937)
Municipality encyclopedia: IV-12-7

Amalienhof was 1751 based as Schaeferei Amalienhof. The license for the application of the Schaeferei was provided 1746 in the office of Stepenitz. In the year 1751 8 "Kossaeten" and 12 "small families" were set as "Buedner" with the "neue Schaeferei auf dem Brande". In the year 1753 the prince "Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau" visited the nearly finished colony. The village got its name after a sister of "Friedrichs dem Großen".

The first Colonists were:
Kossaeten:
Christian Lentz, Gottfried Meckel, Gottfried Zastrow, Michael Bluhm, Hans Milbradt, Jac. Boehm, Daniel Glander
Buedner:
Ludwig Hauck (Pfaelzer, shifts from small Sophienthal to Amalienhof), Ludwig Bast, Johann Michael Hammerschmidt, Michael Siewert, Martin Bischoff, Erdmann Peries, Christian. Felchow, Christian. Zastrow, Christian. Sellenthin, Hans Georg Eichel, Johann Lange, for Georg Christian Wiese
They were so-called "Einländer", came thus already from Pommern and not from far distant areas.
All resided still in 1754 with one exception

Population:
1751: 12 families, approx.. 60-80 persons
1870: 449 persons, 51 property owners on the 3301 mornings
1871: to 484 persons, see census data
1905: 425 persons
1928: 366 persons
1932: 366 persons
1939: 340 persons
2000: 210 persons

Census data at the 1.December 1871:
484 inhabitants, of it 238 male, 246 female, 353 localnative, 484 Evangelist, 0 catholic, 0 Jews, 152 children under 10. years, from whom persons over 10 years 317 can read and write, 15 is illiterates or no indication. Persons with physical defects: 0 blind ones, 0 deaf-mutes, 1 "stupids and lunatics", 0 are localabsent, altogether 59 residential buildings, 2 living places, 89 family households, 0 single households

Sources for ancestor research in Amalienhof:
Mormons:
Films:
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1810-1811 baptism, marrying, dead one 1844-1851 - FHL INTL film [ 1273133 Items 2-4 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1852-1859 - FHL INTL film [ 1273134 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1860-1868 - FHL INTL film [ 1273135 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1869-1874 - FHL INTL film [ 1273136 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1811 (Hackenwalde & Amalienhof) - FHL film [ 1334591 Item 3 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1813-1815, 1819, 1821 1823 (Kattenhof, Amalienhof, Hackenwalde) - FHL INTL film [ 1334595 Item 3 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1832-1874 (Puddenzig) - FHL INTL film [ 1193852 Item 1 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1848-1874 (Amalienhof) - FHL INTL film [ 1193893 Item 3 ]

NEW !!!
Pictures of my attendance in October 2004:

Impressions:
Amalienhof made a nice and romantic impression. The place is not very large and consists, as evidently on the local plan, only of a broad road, at which on the left and on the right are small brick houses. Everything looks very maintained, ugly new buildings with flat lets for rent as in some other places of the region (e.g. Karlsdorf) are missing, here they kept the original buildings. Amalienhof pleased me, together with Harmsdorf, on my journey best, and I have the feeling, here it looks still much as before the war.
The church (meanwhile catholic, of course) is still based directly at the main street in the local center and makes likewise a maintained impression. Unfortunately it was locked.
The cemetery is likewise still at its original place, something hidden diagonally left behind the church (see local plan). Since it is very small however, no graves from the German time, now all graves were polish.
If someone speaks polish: Here is a description of the village from the polish Gollnow-Homepage:
http://www.goleniow.pl/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=168