Stolp
Stolp is a large town in Pomerania on the river Stolpe, 10 miles from the Baltic coast. Its St.Mary's Church dates from the 14th century and before World War II had a silver altar of 1607. In 1904 it had 27,300 inhabitants.[1] In 1935 the population was 41,602, and the town boasted small industries producing machinery and linen.[2] In 1945 it was occupied by the Red Army and Communist Polish units, its population were subsequently expelled and/or murdered, the women aged from 6 to 90 raped.[3][4] It is today illegally occupied by Poland who repopulated the province with settlers from the east.
Outside Stolp, at the hamlet of Gross Schlönwitz, was the Reddentin estate of the von Blumenthal family, one of whom, Field-Marshall Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, served in the Franco-Prussian war[5]. The current rightful but dispossessed proprietor today is Henry von Blumenthal[6] who presently resides in Luxembourg.
Sources
- ↑ Northern Germany by Karl Baedeker, 14th revised edition, Leipzig & London, 1904, p.160.
- ↑ The New Pictorial Atlas of the World, with a Gazetteer, by Odham's Press Ltd., London, WC2, 1935, p.286.
- ↑ The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse-Line edited by Professor Dr. Theodore Schieder, Dr. Adolf Diestelkamp, Professor Dr. Rudolf Laun, Professor Dr. Peter Rassow, and Professor Dr. Hans Rothfels, Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, Bonn, 1954,section (c)"The flight of the German population from Danzig, West Prussia and East Pomerania" pps:34-41.
- ↑ The Hour of the Women by Count Christian von Krockow, Faber, London, 1992, ISBN 0-571-14320-2
- ↑ The War Diary of the Emperor Frederick III 1870-71, edited by A. R. Allinson, M.A., London, 1927, see index.
- ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch der Adeligen Hauser edited by Walter von Hueck, A Band XVIII, C. A. Starke, Limburg-an-der-Lahn, 1985, p.19-20.