Brzozowo (Węgorzewo)

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Brzozowo
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Brzozowo (Poland)
Brzozowo
Brzozowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Węgorzewo
Geographic location : 54 ° 16 '  N , 21 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '51 "  N , 21 ° 39' 1"  E
Residents : 102 (2011)
Postal code : 11-600
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Prynowo ↔ Guja - Bajori Wielkie - Brzeźnica
Klimki → Brzozowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Olsztyn-Mazury
Gdansk
Kaliningrad



Brzozowo ( German  Brosowen , 1938-1945 Hartenstein (Ostpr.) ) Is a village and Schulzenamt in the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ). It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .

Geographical location

Brzozowo is located in the Masurian Lake District on the Baltic ridge northeast of Lake Rydzówka . Characteristic for the landscape in this area are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests.

The distance to Węgorzewo is nine kilometers and to Klimki eight kilometers. The state border between the Republic of Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation runs about ten kilometers north of Brzozowo .

history

Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians ( Nadrau ). After Christianization, the area belonged to the Teutonic Order State from 1243 . After the Battle of Tannenberg (1410) and the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the region became part of the Duchy of Prussia . After 1772 this region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of Prussia . The village of Brosowen / Hartenstein (Ostpr.) Belonged to the district of Angerburg in the administrative district of Gumbinnen from 1818 to 1945 .

At the beginning of May 1874, the district of Brosowen was formed here with the rural communities of Alt Perlswalde, Brosowen, Neu Perlswalde and the manor district of Klimken. In 1938 Brosowen was renamed Hartenstein (Ostpr.) And the district Brosowen from January 27, 1939 in district Perlswalde . In 1938 there were 412 inhabitants in Hartenstein.

On January 25, 1945, Hartenstein was captured by the Red Army and placed under the Soviet command. After the end of the war the village became part of Poland and has been called Brzozowo ever since . In the years 1975-1998 Brzozowo was in the Suwałki Voivodeship and since 1999 it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

District Brosowen (1874–1939)

During its existence, the Brosowen district included:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Remarks
Old Perlswalde Perły 1938 incorporated into the municipality of Perlswalde
Brosowen Hartenstein (East Pr.) Brzozowo
Klimken Klimki 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Gurren (district of Olschöwen )
New Perlswalde Perły 1938 incorporated into the municipality of Perlswalde

Religions

The vast majority of the population of Brosowen was Protestant before 1945 and belonged to the parish of the Engelstein Church in the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . On the Catholic side , the place was parish in the Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Brzozowo part of the now Catholic parish Węgielsztyn (angel stone) in the Dean's Office Węgorzewo , now in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , and protestant church Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a filial community of the parish in Giżycko (Giżycko) in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities

  • Kurt Obitz (1907–1945), German veterinarian, parasitologist and publicist

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieś Brzozowo. polskawliczbach.pl, 2011, accessed January 31, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke: District Perlswalde. October 24, 2004, accessed March 17, 2015 .