Gut Trienke

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Located some 19 kilometres south of Kolberg. Trienke passed into family ownership by marriage and developed under Landrat August von Gerlach into a significant manor estate in Gmina Siemyśl.

Chronicle

1. 16.–18. Jh.

   Trienke is held as a noble fief by the Manteuffel family.

2. ~1762

   The widow of Kolberg's mayor Salomon Meyer acquires all three shares of the estate.

3. frühes 19. Jh.

   Charlotte Wilhelmine von Beyme (daughter of Prussian State Minister Carl Friedrich von Beyme) inherits Gut Trienke and marries Carl Heinrich von Gerlach – the estate thus passes into family ownership. The county description "Der Kolberg-Körliner Kreis" (1909) carries the chain further back: Trienke came to the widowed Frau Meyer, who used it to endow her daughter on her marriage to the minister of state Beyme. His only son died young; of the daughters, the wife of Landrat Carl Heinrich von Gerlach inherited the estate, and on her death in 1858 it passed to her second son August.

4. 1821

   According to Bagmihl's armorial (1843) Carl Heinrich von Gerlach receives Trienke with the outlying farm of Zauchram in this year through his marriage. The widow of Landrat Meyer had given the estate to her daughter as a dowry on her marriage to Cabinet Councillor Beyme.

5. 1857

   Bauer's directory lists Charlotte von Gerlach née von Beyme as lady of Trienke and Drosedow – the estates are held in her name, not her husband's.

6. 1866

   The official tax assessment gives the Trienke estate district 6,609.19 Morgen – about 1,687 hectares – with a net yield of 3,899.27 Taler; by area Trienke is thus the largest of the Parsow estates. The sale advertisement of the same year rounds this to 3,930 Taler, of which about 400 fell to the forest.

7. 1868

   On 29 October the estate management auctions over sixty one- and two-year-old rams from its Negretti flock by Boldebuck sires: upset price five Friedrichsdor, knocked down to any highest bid, the animals vaccinated against pox in the autumn of 1867. The advertisement in the Annals of Agriculture is signed "Trienke near Kolberg, Farther Pomerania, 29 September 1868, P. Mengel" – the same family still runs the Zauchram outwork sixty years later.

8. 1881

   The distillery is built; the timber-framed carriage house follows in 1910. Both farm buildings survive.

9. 1885

   The village received a new place of worship. The patronage belonged to the estate, and the patron paid: the county description of 1909 notes tersely that in 1885 "a new church was built by Landrat von Gerlach-Parsow". Thirty years later his grandson Carl August gave a thousand marks for its decoration and for the graves.

10. Ende 19. Jh.

    A new brick manor house for the family, remodelled in the early twentieth century and set in a landscape park. The estate chapel from the first half of the nineteenth century now serves as the Catholic filial church of St Casimir.

11. 1895

    Connected to the Kolberg light railway (in service until 1961/62, freight until 1995 – today a cycle path). Trienke was once an outlying farm of Drosedow and independent since 1572. An official gazette of 1895 names Drosedow, Trienke, Plauenthin, Groß Jestin and Semmerow as intermediate stations on the new line. The line was opened on 21 July 1895 by the Kolberg Light Railways company: 63 kilometres of narrow gauge from Roman to Kolberg for passenger, luggage, goods and livestock traffic.

12. 1913–1919

    The tenant of the estate, Rittmeister Mengel, sat from 1913 on the supervisory board of the Kolberg light railway company, whose line served the estate. From 1918 the board also included a "Landrat von Gerlach-Kolberg": August's son Klaus (1875–1955), whom the scholarship names by his full given name as "the Kolberg-Körlin Landrat Nikolaus von Gerlach" (jubilee volume of 1919; Baltische Studien, new series 84).

13. 1925

    402 inhabitants (1816: 185). Trienke counts as the largest estate in the district – with distillery and potato drying plant, pedigree herd, stud and sawmill. Karl August von Gerlach is recorded as owner in 1910 and 1928.

14. bis 1906

    Landrat August von Gerlach (1830–1906) is lord of the estate. Under him Trienke enjoys its economic prime.

15. 1911–1945

    Tessen von Gerlach-Parsow (1911–2007), Carl August's eldest son, farms Trienke as the last of the family – the Gotha lists him as a "state-certified farmer, until 1945 owner of the Trienke estate". The estate belongs to the parish of Simötzel.

16. 1937/1938

    The Zauchram outwork three kilometres south-east of the estate has to give up its name, considered Slavic, and is henceforth called "Trienke Schäferei". In 1928 a separate manager runs it for Carl August von Gerlach, who himself lives at Parsow (handbook of the Pomeranian chamber of agriculture).

17. 1945

    The estate is lost that Carl Heinrich von Gerlach had received in 1821 through his marriage to Charlotte von Beyme – after one hundred and twenty-four years in the family.