Świętajno (Powiat Szczycieński)

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Świętajno
Coat of arms of Świętajno
Świętajno (Poland)
Świętajno
Świętajno
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 53 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '54 "  N , 21 ° 13' 5"  E
Residents : 1865 (2011)
Postal code : 12-140
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Chochół / DK 53 → Świętajno
Spychowo / DK 59 - Kolonia → Świętajno
( DK 58 -) Powałczyn - Piasutno → Świętajno
and: Jerutki → Świętajno
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Świętajno [ ɕfjɛnˈtai̯nɔ ] ( German Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen ( Eastern Pr.) ) Is a village in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ) of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is the seat of the rural municipality Świętajno .

Geographical location

The place is 14 km east of the town of Szczytno (Ortelsburg) on two lakes. The southern of the two lakes flows into the northern one, which in turn has an outlet to the Haaßnen River.

history

Local history

Originally called Schwentainen , the village in Masuria was founded on May 15, 1686 by Schulzen Kaspar Bieber. Since 1818 it belonged to the district of Ortelsburg . In 1908 its own church was founded. Before the place belonged to the Evangelical parish Klein Jerutten .

The place was almost completely destroyed by Russian troops on August 22, 1914, but then rebuilt with the support of the Deutschwehr Warrior Aid Association from Berlin-Friedenau, including a new church and a new school. Due to the provisions of the Peace Treaty of Versailles , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schwentainen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Schwentainen, 1253 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes. In March 1929, five houses and seven farm buildings burned down in the village. On July 16, 1938, Schwentainen was renamed Altkirchen . Towards the end of World War II , the Red Army occupied the region. In the spring of 1945 Altkirchen - like all of southern East Prussia - was placed under Polish administration. As far as the inhabitants had not fled, they were expelled in the following time and replaced by Poles. The German village of Altkirchen was renamed Świętajno . After the dissolution of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , the place became part of the newly founded Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999.

District of Schwentainen / Altkirchen (1874–1945)

On July 16, 1874, Schwentainen became the district village, giving its name to an administrative district which - on November 15, 1938, was renamed "District Altkirchen (Ostpr.)" - to the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg in the Königsberg district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian Province of East Prussia belonged. The following were incorporated into the district:

  • Grünwalde ( Polish Kolonia )
  • Lontzig (incorporated into Grünwalde in 1928, Łąck Wielki in Polish )
  • Piassutten (1938-1945 lakes Walde , Polish Piasutno )
  • Schwentainen (1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) , Polish Świętajno )

Population numbers

Village church (Protestant until 1945), today Catholic St. Andreas Bobola Church
Houses in the village
  • 1910: 1,672 (December 1910)
  • 1933: 1.767
  • 1939: 1,661

church

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Luise Abramowski (born July 8, 1928 in Schwentainen), German church historian († 2014)
  • Siegfried Kerstan (born August 14, 1928 in Schwentainen), German Baptist pastor and general secretary of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches († 2017)

See also

literature

  • Paprotta: News about the place Schwentainen near Ortelsburg, which was completely destroyed by the Russians, and its reconstruction. German Armed Forces, Berlin-Friedenau 1915.

Web links

Commons : Świętajno  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wieś Świętajno w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1271
  3. ^ Patriotic Archive for Science, Art and Industry . Volume 13, Königsberg 1835, p. 427.
  4. ↑ ostpreussen.net Swietajno - Schwentainen / Altkirchen
  5. ↑ 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. 98
  6. ^ Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 1, Königsberg 1929, p. 592.
  7. ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Schwentainen / Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.)
  8. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de district Ortelsburg
  9. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ortelsburg.html # ew33ortlaltkirche. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).