The Family Piechorowski - Brzyskorzystew, PL

Brzystorzystewko

Noble Estate, Prussia, Posen, Administrative District Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Kreis and Court Records At Pzdt. TF~ Znin, Military Records Office at Gnesen (Gniezno), Civil Registry Office at Gutenwerder (Dobrylewo), P Retkowo, E 6, 4 km Jarojchewo; 169 Population. [Meyers Gazetter - 1871]

Brzyskorzystew is situated 8km north of Znin, near the road to Szubin. It is an old village on the river Pomorka, also called the river Letnica, the river Bezkorzyst and the river Rawka in the past. This river is the tributary of the river Gasawka. This village was mentioned as Bezkorzyst in the document of Pope Innocentus, dating from July 7th, 1136.

At the beginning, the village belonged to the archbishops of Gniezno and seven peasants lived there. Then, in 1370 it was sold to the family of the Grzymalita coat of arms. At the end of 15th century it belonged to the family of the Leszczyc coat of arms. After the partition, Brzyskorzystew was in the area of the Inowroclaw county, however outside its administration. The population of the village was about 140 inhabitants, more or less the same as the population of a typical, smal town of the then Paluki region. The river, flowing along the village, was the border of the first Prussian annexation in the Great Dutchy of Poznan, in the village was in the area of the Szubin coutry. After another change in the administratoin in 1887, Brzyskorzystew /Birkenfelde/ was included in the Znin county.

The names Brzyskorzystew over the years.

Brzyskorzystew 1826,
Gogólka or Gogulka 1828,
Kuraczewko or Koraczewko 1827,
Brzyskorzystew Wyreba Huba 1861
Brzyskorzystew Wyreba Marianowo (in German Marianwelde) 1861,
Brzyskorzystew Pawlowo (in German Pansholf) 1861
Brzyskorzystew Folwark Stary 1861,
Brzyskorzystew Marianowo Wyreka Brzyskorzystewska 1863,
Birkenfelde 1875

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