Elganowo (Pasym)

Elganowo
	Elganowo
	Elganowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczycieński
Gmina :	Pasym
Geographic location :	53 ° 40 ' N , 20 ° 52' E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '35 " N , 20 ° 51' 34" E
Residents :	151 (2011)
Postal code :	12-130
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Grzegrzółki → Elganowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Elganowo [ ɛlgaˈnɔvɔ ] ( German Gilgenau ) is a village in the urban and rural municipality Pasym ( Passenheim ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Elganowo is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, five kilometers northeast of Pasym and 14 kilometers northwest of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg ).

history

Place name

The place was still called German Liebenau in 1412 and received its later name Gylgenaw in 1472 from the owner Brosian von Gylgenaw, who succeeded von Woben . This name is derived from the Prussian 'ilga' (long) and 'gilin' (deep).

Local history

Former Gilgenau manor house in Elganowo

In 1394 the Grand Master at the time, Konrad von Jungingen, gave the Jonyken von Woben 1000 hectares of land. There was a manor and a village on it. In 1472 Gylgenaw was granted higher jurisdiction by Grand Master Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg . In the event of war, the owner was obliged to provide an armed rider.

Around 1870 the manor in the Ortelsburg district came into the possession of the family of Karl Gottfried Hagen's son . The neighboring goods Friederikenhain (Polish Jagielki , no longer existent) and Davidshof ( Jęcznik ) were incorporated by inheritance.

On 16 July 1874 Gilgenau office Village was and thus its name to a District , which until 1945 the district Szczytno in the Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The rural community Gilgenau and the manor district Gilgenau belonged to the administrative district.

In 1910 the rural community of Gilgenau had 47 and the Gilgenau estate 256 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the Gilgenau estate was incorporated into the rural community. The population was 259 in 1933 and 317 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gilgenau belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Gilgenau (village and estate) 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In 1935 the manor was repopulated by the Königsberg trust agency. In the turmoil after the Second World War it was dissolved, the village of Gilgenau and some buildings were preserved.

In 1945, as a result of the war, the entire southern East Prussia came to Poland , including the village of Gilgenau, which received the Polish form of the name "Elganowo". It is now the seat of Schulz Office (Polish Sołectwo ) for Gmina Pasym (urban and rural community Passenheim ) in Szczytno County (District Szczytno ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong. In 2011 Elganowo had 151 inhabitants.

church

Before 1945 Gilgenau belonged to the Protestant Church of Passenheim in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , as well as to the Roman Catholic Church in Pasym in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

The relation to Pasym exists again for Elganowo today. The Evangelical Church in Pasym is now a parish church in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , the Catholic Church there is assigned to the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Elganowo is a bit away from the traffic and can be reached via a side street from Grzegrzółki (Kukukswalde) . There is no connection to rail traffic .