Giławy

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Giławy
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Giławy (Poland)
Giławy
Giławy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyn
Gmina : Purda
Geographic location : 53 ° 43 '  N , 20 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '0 "  N , 20 ° 48' 0"  E
Height : 170 m npm
Residents : 165 (2011)
Postal code : 11-030
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Olsztyn-Mazury
Gdansk
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St. John's Church in Giławy

Giławy , until 1945 German: Gillau , is a village and Sołectwo in the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to Gmina Purda in the Olsztyński powiat in north-eastern Poland .

geography

Geographical location

The village is located between Lake Serwent (250 ha) and Lake Giławy (19.5 ha) about 25 km southeast of Olsztyn . The five villages Gąsiorowo , Giławy, Groszkowo, Nerwik and Zaborowo belong to the Sołectwo Giławy.

geology

The landscape was shaped by the ice sheet and is a post-glacial, hilly, wooded ground moraine with numerous channel lakes and rivers. Characteristic for the area are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests, which cover 53% of the municipality of Purda.

history

Originally the district of Barten of the Prussians was located here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . On August 19, 1407, the awarded Bishop of Warmia the Tangible after the agrarian of the German Teutonic Order to Jacob Gillau, son of Mykens Sirwithen, a departmental traffic on the lake Sirwithen ( Serwent ) of 40 hooves with four Freienhufen for the mayor . In 1441 a new location contract with 30 hooves was awarded to Gillau .

After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Warmia was subordinated to the Crown of Poland as an autonomous duchy of Warmia ; the border with the Duchy of Prussia ran about one kilometer south at Gillau until 1772. During the Prussian Pfaffenkrieg in 1479 Gillau was completely destroyed by the troops of the Polish king.

With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia and Gillau became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

In May 1874 the district of Preylowen (after the change of place names: Preiwils 1938-1945) was formed with the rural community Gillau and the residential area Klein Gillau.

In the referendum on July 11, 1920, 190 votes were cast for East Prussia and 58 votes for Poland .

The largest farms in 1930-1932 owned:

  1. Bernhard Grabowski 44 ha,
  2. August Ziemski 39 ha,
  3. Paul Zimmermann 35 ha,
  4. Franz Schikorski 28 ha.

Population development

  • 1820: 109
  • 1913: 520
  • 1928: 463
  • 1939: 458
  • 2006: 188
  • 2011: 165

Religions

The pagan Prussians worshiped the Baltic and Lithuanian deities . After the Christianization by the German Ordinance , the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order Land from 1243 . After the founding of the parish of Wartenburg in 1364, Gillau belonged to the parish with the St. Anna Church for a time until 1503 . From 1503 to 1898 Gillau was a village in the parish of Groß Purden . In 1898 the church “St. Johannes Baptist ”and the parish of Gillau founded. The parish included: Gillau, Graskau, Gonschorowen , Groß and Klein Rauschken, Klutznik, Nerwigk , Pod Lassen, Saborowen and Wallen.

The inhabitants of the Protestant denomination visited the church in Passenheim and after 1836 that in Wartenburg.

literature

  • Agricultural address book of domains, manors, estates and farms in the province of East Prussia . Extract from Warmia. Edition 1932.
  • Michael Bulitta: Historical lists of inhabitants (HEV) for the former Southeast Prussia: The marriage register of the Catholic parish St. Johannes Baptist zu Gillau (Allenstein district) from 1898 to 1945 (=  writings of the Working Group Genealogie Neidenburg Ortelsburg, No. 20). Self-published, Bonn 2009.
  • Michael Bulitta: Historical lists of residents (HEV) for the former Southeast Prussia. The company register of the Catholic parish St. Johannes Baptist in Gillau / Kr. Allenstein from 1903 to 1950 (=  writings of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie Neidenburg Ortelsburg, No. 33). Self-published, Bonn 2017.
  • Michael Bulitta: Historical lists of residents (HEV) for the former Southeast Prussia. The civil status register of the Catholic parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Gillau / Kr. Allenstein. Volume I 1898 to 1910 (=  writings of the Working Group Genealogie Neidenburg Ortelsburg, No. 34). Self-published, Bonn 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wieś Giławy. polskawliczbach.pl, 2011, accessed January 30, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ^ Website of the Purda community
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Preiwils. Rolf Jehke, Herdecke, April 18, 2003, accessed on August 25, 2014 .
  4. ^ Gillau (parish). Gene Wiki, accessed January 12, 2014 .