Fürstenflagge

German name: Fürstenflagge
Todays name: Boleslawice
District: Naugard
Todays district: Zachodniopomorskie
Location: 14°41‘ Ost, 53°34‘ Nord
Location description: approx.12 km west of Gollnow, approx. 20 km east of Stettin, approx. 25 km behind the GermanPolish border
Religion: ev.luth.
Church districtl: Langenberg
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Surface:
Municipality encyclopedia: IV-16-30

Population:
1871: 304 personsen, of which 150 persons in the related estate-district, see census data
1905: 166 persons, of which 53 persons in the related estate-district Municipality encyclopedia: IV-16-120
1939: 200 persons
2000: 10 persons (!)

Census data at the 1.December 1871 for the village:
154 Inhabitants, 69 male, 85 female, 112 localnative, 153 evangelist, 1 catholic, 0 jews, 46 children under 10 years, of the persons over 10 years 102 can read and write, 22 illiterates, 6 without indication. persons with physical defects: 0 blind ones, 1 deaf-mutes, 0 "stupids and lunatics", 9 are localabsent, altogether 17 residential buildings, 1 living place, 31 family households, 2 single households

Census data at the 1.December 1871 for the related estate-district:
150 Inhabitants, 72 male, 78 female, 85 localnative, 150 evangelist, 0 catholic, 0 jews, 37 children under 10 years, of the persons over 10 years 89 can read and write, 23 illiterates, 1 without indication. persons with physical defects: 0 blind ones, 0 deaf-mutes, 0 "stupids and lunatics", 0 are localabsent, altogether 13 residential buildings, 3 living place, 27 family households, 0 single households

Sources for ancestor research in Fürstenflagge:
Mormons:
Batch-Nr. : C999481 Taufen 1783-1839
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp
Filme:
Christening, marriage, deaths, 1833-1874 (Fürstenflagge - FHL INTL Film [ 1193844 Item 3 ]
Christening, marriage, deaths 1874-1877 - FHL INTL Film [ 1199637 Items 4-15 ]

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


Impressions:
Well, what to say about Fürstenflagge ? First, i nearly missed it, the village is very small and the fact, that in 1871 it had more than 399 inhabitants (census data) is hard to believe. I only saw four or five houses and the old "Gutsbezirk" is nearly in ruins. In the year 2000 only 10 inhabitants lived in Fürstenflagge. One of the villages, where i asked myself: what to take pictures of here ? It looks like the people cannot live from farming in this part of the Gollnow region anymore. When driving further west to Langenhagen and the coast of "Dammscher See" nothing grows on the former fields of the farmers anymore.
Fürstenflagge was typical for the villages, where the young people don't see a future perspective anymore and move to the bigger towns like Gollnow or Stettin.
Fürstenflagge has no own church and the former cemetary south of the village has disappeared.

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=127