Botowo (Biskupiec)

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Botowo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyn
Gmina : Biskupiec
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 20 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '49 "  N , 20 ° 56' 47"  E
Residents : 234 (2011)
Postal code : 11-300
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Street : Labuszewo / ext. 57 ↔ Rasząg
Zabrodzie - Dworzec → Botowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Botowo ( German  Bottowen , 1938 to 1945 Bottau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community of Biskupiec (Bishop's Castle) in Powiat Olsztyński ( Allenstein District ).

Geographical location

Botowo is located in the center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 26 kilometers north of the former district town of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno in Polish ) and 31 kilometers east of today's district metropolis Olsztyn ( Allenstein in German ).  

history

Local history

Bottowen was founded before 1570. The founding hand- fests were renewed on February 10, 1615, when the village mayor Jakob Denda was awarded four interest-free hooves. In the 17th century the economic development of the village did not go well, progress only became apparent in the 18th century. Then at the end of the 20th century there were increasing signs of a new development period.

In 1874 Bottowen was incorporated into the newly established Kobulten district ( Kobułty in Polish ) in the Ortelsburg district of East Prussia .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Bottowen, 305 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland had 60 votes.

From 1938 onwards, "Bottau" was the name of the place for the village of Bottowen, which was changed for political and ideological reasons.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Botowo”. Today it is the seat of a Schulz Office (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of urban and rural municipality Biskupiec (Bishop's Castle) in Olsztyn County (Kreis Allenstein ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong.

Population numbers

year number
1820 116
1885 526
1905 528
1910 550
1933 486
2011 234

church

Until 1945 Bottowen resp. Bottau parish into the Protestant Church of Kobulten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and into the Catholic Church of Kobulten in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Botowo belongs to the Evangelical Church of Rasząg (Raschung) , a branch church of the parish Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Botowo is still oriented towards the parish in Kobułty , whose branch parish Botowo is today, now in the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

A village school was founded in Bottowen during the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm I.

traffic

Botowo can be reached from Landesstrasse 57 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 128 ) on a side road from Labuszewo (Haasenberg) to Rasząg (Raschung) . There is no train connection.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Botowo w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 85
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Bottau
  4. ↑ a b Bottowen / Bottau at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kobulten District
  6. ↑ 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. 93
  7. ↑ a b c Bottau at GenWiki
  8. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  9. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
  11. ↑ Kobułty Parish