| Wiejkowo | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | West Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kamień |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Wolin |
| Coordinates: | 53.8167°N 55°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 300 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | ZKA |
Wiejkowo, until 1945 named (in German) Groß Weckow, is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wolin, within Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) south-east of Wolin, 190NaN0 south of Kamień Pomorski, and 450NaN0 north of the regional capital Szczecin. It is situated on the western shore of Ostrowo Lake in the historic region of Pomerania.
The village has a population of 300.
The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler Mieszko I around 967.[2] Following the fragmentation of Poland, it formed part of the Duchy of Pomerania (which since 1181 became part of the Holy Roman Empire). German-Danish von Guentersberg family governed Weckow since 1299 until they died out in 1763; then the von Berg family received the village. Alexandrine von Berg inherited Weckow from her father and with her marriage to Albert von Ploetz, the village was in the possession of the von Ploetz family until 1945.[3]
Under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, the region became again part of Poland after World War II, and Poles expelled from Soviet-occupied eastern Poland were resettled in the region.
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.[4]