Przechówko Village Layout III; 1854/57 Przechówko School Document

From the Geheimes Staatarchiv in Berlin, I_HA_Rep_76_IX_Sekt_5_Lit_P_Nr_41_0001-0057

In 1854 the Przechówko villagers are collecting fees for the construction of a new school building.  In either 1823 or 1833 (in one place the doc says 1823, in another place, 1833) the Lutheran residents constructed the first school building in the village and in 1852 that structure burned down.  Documents related to the rebuilding of the school tell us only very little about the village during the mid-19th century.  Przechówko in 1854 was divided into 16 farms and there were also 5 Einwohner families present.  The Schulze was Jacob Wolter.  Like the Mennonites before them, the Lutheran families were generally of very modest means.  The soil in the village fields was very sandy and the whole was still prone to spring flooding from the Vistula or the Wda Rivers.

From Bydgoszcz Archives, we also know that Przechowko children were attending Deutsch Konopat school in the year 1820.  Stobbe indicates Przechowko built its own school "in 1832, when the town of Przechowko built its own school and wanted to rebuild the Mennonite meetinghouse for that purpose, the few remaining Mennonites opposed the move and sold it to be dismantled. What happened to the meetinghouse cannot be ascertained, since the records of the town were destroyed by a fire in 1857." [see: https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Przechovka_(Kuyavian-Pomeranian_Voivodeship,_Poland)]    Is this the 1852 fire mentioned above?

From the 1773 census, we know that during the Mennonite era, the village was 300 Culm Morgen altogether but we don't know what the breakdown for meadow vs cultivated vs uncultivated land was.

This 1854/57 school document goes on to tell us how the village land was broken down: “The school community includes 16 residents.... Together they own 150 Culm Morgen of meadows in the lowlands, which are very tolerable; also 98 Culm Morgen cultivated land, some of which is very productive; and 54 ½ Culm Morgen of uncultivated land. ".  That's a total of 302½ Culm Morgen, only 2½ Morgen different to the Mennonite total (perhaps just a difference in surveying precision).

[Note: we also know that the Przechowo Vorwerk was equivalent to 249 acres]

Adalbert Goertz tells us that 1 Culm Morgen was roughly equivalent to 1.383 modern acres (https://mennonitegenealogy.com/faq/faqpruss.htm).  Given that information, it's simple to calculate land areas in modern units:

And it's also pretty easy to look at a Przechówko village map and see the breakdown using logical lines on the old maps.  Brent Wiebe provides this map using units in acres:

We can very easily estimate these measurements onto a modern satellite view and see approximately where the old cultivated field, uncultivated, and meadowland areas were.