Borowe (Sorkwity)

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Borowe
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Borowe (Poland)
Borowe
Borowe
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Sorkwity
Geographic location : 53 ° 47 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '56 "  N , 21 ° 13' 20"  E
Residents : 114 (2011)
Postal code : 11-731
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext . 600 : Mrągowo / DK 16 / DK 59 - GrabowoRańsk - Jabłonka - Szczytno / DK 53 / DK 57 / DK 58
Borowski Las → Borowe
Rutkowo → Borowe
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Borowe ( German  Borowen , 1938 to 1945 Prausken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Sorkwity ( German  Sorquitten ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Borowe is located on the north bank of the Langendorfer See ( Jezioro Dłużec in Polish ) in the middle of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ).  

history

Local history

The village, called Borrowen after 1785 and Borowen until 1938 , was founded in 1548 when Georg von Rechenberg exhibited 40 hooves for Borowen and 20 hooves for Borowerwald (1938 to 1945 Prauskenwalde , Borowski Las in Polish ). With its residential areas Borowerwald (1938 to 1945 Prauskenwalde , Polish Borowski Las ) and Schönruttkowen (1938 to 1945 Schönrauten , Polish Rutkowo ), Borowen was the official seat from 1874 to 1945 and thus gave its name to an administrative district that was renamed "District Prausken" in 1938 District Sensburg in the administrative region of Gumbinnen (from 1905: administrative region of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Borowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Borowen, 360 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Borowen was foreign-sounding place names in "Prausken" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed .

In 1945, the village in war-induced with the entire south was East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Borowe". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of the rural community Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1818 161
1839 238
1867 436
1885 553
1898 522
1905 558
1910 525
1933 546
1939 498
2011 114

Borowen / Prausken district (1874–1945)

The Borowen district consisted of eight villages when it was established on April 8, 1874. Due to structural changes, there were still five in the end:

Surname Changed name from
1938 to 1945
Polish name Remarks
Bees Bönigken Bieńki 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Ganthen
Borowen Paws Borowe
Ganthen Gant
Gaynen Gajne 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Ganthen
Glodowen Hermannsruh Głodowo
Glognau Głogno
Maradtken Maradki
Pillacks Piłaki

On January 1, 1945, the Prausken district, which has since been renamed, included the villages: Ganthen, Glognau, Hermannsruh, Maradtken and Prausken.

church

In 1905, 544 of the 558 inhabitants were Protestant and 14 were Catholic .

Until 1945 Borowen resp. Prausken in the Protestant Church Ribben ( Polish Rybno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Sensburg ( Mrągowo ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Borowe is part of the Protestant community in Rybno, a filial community of the parish Sorkwity in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , and also to the Catholic parish Rybno in the current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Borowe is located on the busy Voivodship Road 600 , which connects the two regions of Mrągowo (Sensburg) and Szczytno (Ortelsburg) . In addition, rural back roads from the north and south of Borowski Las (Borowerwald , 1938 to 1945 Prauskenwalde) and Rutkowo (Schönruttkowen , 1938 to 1945 Schönrauten) end in Borowe . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 82
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Prausken
  3. Prausken / Borowen in: parish ribs at the Kreisgemeinschaft Sensburg
  4. a b Rolf Jehke, Borowen / Prausken district
  5. 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. 111
  6. a b c Borowen at GenWiki
  7. ^ Wieś Borowe w liczbach
  8. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 501