Drozdowo (Kowale Oleckie)

Drozdowo
	Drozdowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '48 "  N , 22 ° 29' 50"  E
Residents :	250
Postal code :	19-420 Kowale Oleckie
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Voivodeship Street 652 : Kowale Oleckie ↔ Mieruniszki - Suwałki
	Kucze - Drozdówko → Drozdowo
	Lenarty - Budki → Drozdowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Kaunas (lit.)

Drozdowo ( German  Drosdowen , 1934–1945 Drosten ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938–1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Drozdowo is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is 2 kilometers to the voivodeship border between Warmia-Masuria and Podlasie , and 4 kilometers to the former German-Polish border. The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) is 14 kilometers to the south.

history

The founding year of the former domain Drosdowen is 1553. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established district of Bialla ( Polish: Biała Olecka ), which - renamed the district of Billstein after 1900 - to the district of Oletzko (1933-1945 district of Treuburg ) in the administrative district of Gumbinnen belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia . The population of the Drosdowen Manor in 1910 was 124.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Drosdowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Drosdowen, 84 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928 Drosdowen gave up its independence and merged with the neighboring towns of Buttken ( Polish: Budki ) and Salzwedel ( Polish: Drozdówko ) to form the new rural community of Buttken. From January 23, 1934 Drosdowen was called Drosten .

As a result of the Second World War , the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Drozdowo . The place is now independent again and the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) within the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The inhabitants of Drosdowens were mainly Protestant before 1945 and parish in the Mierunsken district (1938–1945 Merunen, Polish Mieruniszki ) of the parish Mierunsken / Merunen - Eichhorn (until 1916 Szczecinken, Polish Szczecinki ). It belonged to the church district Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the few Protestant church members living here are assigned to the parish of Suwałki , which belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and looks after a branch church in nearby Gołdap (Goldap) .

Before 1945 the Catholic church members were oriented towards Marggrabowa (1928–1945 Treuburg, Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia , today they are incorporated into the newly established parish in Kowale Oleckie , which becomes one of the two deaneries in Olecko in the Diocese of Ełk the Catholics Church in Poland . A branch church of the parish Kowale Oleckie was built in Drozdowo .

traffic

Drozdowo is conveniently located on the Polish Voivodship Road 652 (former German Reichsstraße 137 ), which connects the two Voivodships Warmia-Masuria and Podlaskie and builds a bridge between the two Polish north-south axes of the national road DK 65 (formerly Reichsstraße 132 ) and the state road DK 8 . Two side roads also end in Drozdowo: from the north from Kucze (Kutzen) via Drozdówko (Salzwedel) and from the south from Lenarty (Lehnarten) via Budki (Buttken) .

Until 1945 Drosdowen or Drosten was a train station on the Treuburg – Garbassen line of the Treuburg Kleinbahnen . It was abandoned after 1945.

Personalities

• Gustav von Saltzwedel (born April 28, 1808 at Gut Drosdowen; † June 6, 1897 at Gut Pötschendorf, Rastenburg district, East Prussia), Prussian administrative officer, district president in Gumbinnen
• Wilhelm von Saltzwedel (born April 16, 1820 at Gut Drosdowen, † July 29, 1882 in Danzig), landowner, district president in Danzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Drosten
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Bialla / Billstein
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
4. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : Self-determination for East Germany - A documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 63.
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Domukente. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.