Głotowo
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Olsztyn | ||
| Gmina : | Dobre Miasto | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 58 ' N , 20 ° 22' E | ||
| Residents : | 494 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NOL | ||
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Głotowo (German Glottau ) is a village and place of pilgrimage of the Roman Catholic Church in the municipality of Dobre Miasto (Guttstadt) in the Olsztyński powiat (Allenstein district) of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in historic East Prussia , about three kilometers southwest of Guttstadt ( Dobre Miasto ) and 21 kilometers northwest of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).
history
The first mention of Glottau dates from 1290. The place was already settled at that time. The place received its festivals in 1313. A pastor's office had already been created for the place the year before. Bishop Hermann of Prague and the cathedral chapter moved his collegiate monastery, founded in 1341, after only two years by order of October 30, 1343 from the pilgrimage site of Pettelkau to Glottau. Due to the increasing uncertainty of this location due to the Lithuanians who invaded this area, the monastery was moved to Guttstadt as early as 1347. The rectory in Glottau remained the provost office. In 1785 Glottau was called a royal farming village with a church and 62 fireplaces (households). Until 1945 Glottau belonged to the district of Heilsberg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the province of East Prussia .
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army conquered the region in January 1945 and placed it under the administration of the People's Republic of Poland in March 1945 . This renamed the place in Głotowo .
Demographics
| year | Residents | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 357 | |
| 1852 | 740 | |
| 1858 | 751 | including 1 Evangelical and 750 Catholics |
| 1871 | 810 | |
| 1933 | 755 | |
| 1939 | 737 |
Legend of the pilgrimage site
The legend that justifies the role of Glottau as a place of pilgrimage says that in 1290 Lithuanian troops invaded the village. The pastor of Glottau therefore hid a valuable silver pyxis by burying it in a nearby field. A consecrated host was accidentally left in the container . The pyxis and its contents were found again after many years by oxen. Allegedly the ox knelt in awe in the middle of the field to worship the shining host.
This phenomenon quickly became known. The wafer is said to have been brought to Guttstadt in a procession . According to a contemporary chronicle, the host returned inexplicably to its place of discovery. This was interpreted to mean that it was God's will to build a chapel in honor of the Corpus Christi at the site of the miracle . The chapel quickly became the destination of numerous pilgrimages, and the church was finally built in the 18th century.
church
The large, single-nave baroque church of St. Andreas was built in the years 1722–1726 under the direction of the Wormditter master builder Christoph Reimers. The foundation stone was laid on August 22, 1722 by Bishop Theodor Andreas Potocki . The church was consecrated on July 24, 1726 by Bishop Christoph Andreas Johann Szembek .
Calvary
Glottau became famous through the Kalvarienberg. It is a representation of Christ's Way of the Cross in the form of 14 stations. This is located in a river valley in the immediate vicinity of the church. It was created in the years 1878-1884.
The creation of the Kalvarienberg was suggested and financially supported by a former resident of the village, Johann Merten. The inauguration took place in 1894 by the then Warmian Bishop Andreas Thiel . Since then, the Calvary has been visited by thousands of pilgrims from Poland, Germany and other countries.
The Way of the Cross was extensively renovated in 2006.
More Attractions
At a German-Polish artist meeting in 2002, an installation “A Thousand Hands” was created on a meadow near Glottau, which blended harmoniously into the landscape.
Celebrities
- The Catholic theologian Max Meinertz worked as a chaplain in Glottau from 1904 to 1905.
literature
- Pilgrimage, church and stations of the cross in Glottau. In: Pastoralblatt… 14 (1882), pp. 49–55.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2017
- ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I: Topography of East Prussia . Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the East Prussian Cammer Department , p. 62 below.
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell, Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2: G – Ko. Halle 1821, p. 42, item 1502.
- ^ Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Berlin 1856, p. 185.
- ↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 110, paragraph 34.
- ^ Gustav Neumann: Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 19, item 14.
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. heilsberg.html # ew33hlsbglottau. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Documentation of the legend (PDF; 150 kB)
- ↑ Contemporary illustration of the Calvary on a postcard
- ↑ International Workcamp in Glottau ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A thousand hands
- ↑ Receipt of presence of Max Meinertz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
