Brożówka

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Brożówka
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Brożówka (Poland)
Brożówka
Brożówka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Kruklanki
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '26 "  N , 21 ° 57' 30"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-612
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Kruklanki ↔ Jeziorowskie - Jakunówko
Żywki → Brożówka
Boćwinka - Chmielewo ↔ Brożówka
Rail route : no train connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Brożówka ( German  Gansenstein ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Brożówka is located on the eastern shore of Lake Büffke ( Jezioro Brożówka in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is 20 kilometers to the northwest to the former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo). Today's district town Giżycko (Lötzen) is 14 kilometers to the south-west.

View from the old manor park to the lake in Brożówka (Gansenstein)

history

The village formerly called Brzosowken and after 1785 Gansenstein was founded in 1562. In that year, Duke Albrecht awarded his senior secretary Balthasar Gans a piece of forest in the Angerburg office of 6 1 ⁄ 2  hooves. The Gans family was the first owner of the estate with its large park on the lakeshore - until 1710, when the last heir died of the plague and the family died out. In 1716, Domain Director Wilhelm von der Groeben took over Gansenstein (with Regulowken - in Polish Regułówka). Then it found numerous different owners until 1945.

In 1874, Gans stone was in the newly built office district Jesziorowsken ( Polish Jeziorowskie ) integrated, the - 1927 in the district of Seehausen renamed - the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 the Gansenstein manor with its villages, Bahnhof Gansenstein, Forsthaus Gansenstein, Gansenstein Mühle and Hopfental (until 1905 Milchbude, in Polish Chmielewo) had a total of 239 inhabitants. On July 1, 1914, an area of ​​0.5364 hectares in the Gansenstein manor was reclassified into the Siewken manor (Żywki in Polish) in the administrative district of the same name.

On September 30, 1928, Gansenstein finally gave up its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Kruglanken in the district of the same name.

The former Gansenstein manor in Brożówka

At the time of the Fiihrer's headquarters in World War II , Heinrich Himmler used the manor house in Gansenstein for his stays. The leader of the Polish army, Stefan Rowecki (cover name: Grot) is said to have been held here in 1943 after his arrest by the Gestapo .

As a result of the Second World War, Gansenstein came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish place name Brożówka in reference to the historical name Brosowken . The village was made independent again and is now the seat of a neighboring village of Chmielewo (Hopfental) with the Schulzenamt (sołectwo in Polish) as part of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 to the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then to the Voivodeship of Warmia Belonging to Masuria .

Religions

Until 1945 Gansenstein and its districts were parish in the Evangelical Church of Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen ( Giżycko in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Brożówka belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish of Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Evangelical cemetery

Graves in the old Gansenstein cemetery in Brożówka

In Brożówka there is still the old evangelical cemetery ( Polish: cmentarze wangelicki ) from the time of Gansenstein with grave crosses and stones from the former time. There are no regulations regarding the maintenance of the cemetery.

Sons of the place

traffic

Brożówka is a little away from the traffic on a side street that connects Kruklanki (Kruglanken) with the village Jakunówko (Jakunowken , 1938–1945 Jakunen) already in Gmina Węgorzewo . There is also an overland connection to and from Żywki (Siewken) .

Between 1908 and 1945 Gansenstein was a train station on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg railway line . It was no longer activated after the war. After 1945 the station was called Żywki in Polish .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 90
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Gansenstein
  3. ↑ a b c Brożówka - Goose Stone
  4. ↑ Gansenstein
  5. ↑ a b c Rolf Jehke: District Jesziorowsken / Seehausen
  6. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Angerburg
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476