Łęgowo (Olecko)

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Łęgowo
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Łęgowo (Poland)
Łęgowo
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Olecko
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '1 "  N , 22 ° 26' 40"  E
Residents : 102 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Golubki - DK 65 → Łęgowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Łęgowo ( German  Lengowen , 1938 to 1945 Lengau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which is part of the urban and rural community of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Łęgowo is located on the north bank of the Lengowener See (1938 to 1945: Lengauer See, in Polish Jezioro Łęgowskie ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, seven kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko .

history

In 1561 the village called Langowen around 1785 and Lengowen until 1938 was founded.

From 1874 to 1945 it was incorporated into the district of Seedranken ( Sedranki in Polish ), which belonged to the Oletzko district - renamed "Treuburg District" in 1933 - to the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . During the same period the village was assigned to the Marggrabowa Land registry office .

In 1910, 391 residents were registered in Lengowen. Their number decreased to 284 by 1933 and totaled 239 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Lengowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Lengowen, 237 residents voted to remain with East Prussia; Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, Lengowen was renamed "Lengau" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Łęgowo”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Lengowen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of the district town, at that time still located in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic residents of Łęgowo are still oriented towards the district town, which is now assigned to the Diocese of Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the churches in Ełk and Gołdap , both of which belong to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Łęgowo is located west of the Polish national road DK 65 (formerly German Reichsstraße 132 ) and can be reached by land from Golubki (Gollubien, Ksp. Marggrabowa , 1938 to 1945 Kalkhof) .

The Ełk – Tschernjachowsk railway runs on the eastern border of Łęgowo, but has not been used for rail traffic since 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 694
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Lengau
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Seedranken District
  5. ↑ a b c Lengowen
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 65
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484