Bartosze

Bartosze
	Bartosze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 50 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '36 "  N , 22 ° 16' 25"  E
Residents :	229 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo ↔ Orzysz - Ruska Wieś ↔ Ełk - Augustów
	1852N: Rożyńsk - Mołdzie → Bartosze
Rail route :	Czerwonka – Ełk (not in operation)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Bartosze ( German  Bartossen , 1938-1945 Bartendorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Bartosze is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers west of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small village of Bartossen was founded in 1472. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in his living space Mathildenhof ( Polish Buniaki ) in the District Linden country based in Neuendorf (Polish Nowa Wieś Ełcka incorporated) that the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged .

Bartossen had 277 inhabitants in 1910, in 1933 there were already 321.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Bartossen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Bartossen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On August 18, 1938 Bartossen learned the name change in Bart village . It was politically and ideologically motivated by the defense against foreign-sounding place names. A year later the population was 333.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Bartosze". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), in which the neighboring places Buniaki (Mathildenhof) and Judziki (Judzicken , 1938-1945 Gutenborn) are included. Thus they are part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Bartossen was parish in the Protestant parish Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert parish in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Bartosze is still oriented towards Ełk both Protestant and Catholic .

German military cemetery

Bartossen memorial

Entrance to the German military cemetery in Bartossen

Due to the large number of deaths in the fighting in the Masurian winter battle on February 12, 1915, a memorial was created on a hill near Bartossen . 84 German soldiers rest here. Because of its widely visible three crosses, it was soon called "Masurian Golgotha" or "Golgotha ​​of East Prussia".

On this hill, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge was able to acquire additional land to create a military cemetery in the tradition of the old memorial. The work began in 1991. It included the reburial of 10,000 dead from East Prussia and the Polish Podlaskie Voivodeship . The official inauguration of the German war cemetery Bartossen (Bartosze) ( Polish : Cmentarz Żołnierzy Niemieckich Bartosze ) took place on August 9, 2003.

In the following years, other war dead - soldiers, but also civilians - were transferred to Bartosze, including those found during sewer work in Pilec (Pülz) near Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and temporarily buried in Święta Lipka (Heiligelinde) . There are currently 13,824 war deaths here, and it is possible to embed up to 20,000 deaths here. In 2017, the remains of 2,974 war dead found in 2016 near Thorn were reburied here.

The war cemetery is located at the western exit of the town on Landesstrasse 16 .

traffic

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Bartosze train station

Since 1915 the village of Bartossen has been a train station on the Rothfließ-Lyck ( Polish: Czerwonka-Ełk ). The station was initially officially called "Bartossen (Ostpr.)". The route is only used irregularly in freight traffic.

Street

Bartosze's location on Polish Landesstrasse 16 , the former German Reichsstrasse 127, is of great importance . It connects the three voivodships Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie with each other. Coming from the western area, the side road 1852N from Rożyńsk ( German  Rosinsko 1938 to 1945 Rosenheide ) ends in Bartosze.

Web links

Commons : Bartosze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 14
3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Bartendorf
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: Linden-Land district
5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
6. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 83
8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494.
10. ↑ Bartossen
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bartosze - Bartossen / Bartendorf (with current photos of the war cemetery)
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Bartossen / Bartosze war cemetery, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
13. ↑ Embedding of almost 3,000 war dead: Commemoration on July 15 in Bartossen / Poland , report from the Volksbund from June 1, 2017, accessed on September 4, 2017