Glaznoty

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Glasnoty (Marienfelde, Osterode district in East Prussia) is a village in northern Poland.

location

Glaznoty is 17 km south of Ostróda (Osterode in East Prussia) and 47 km southwest of Olsztyn (Allenstein) .

history

The village was founded in 1324, presumably by a knight from Hasendamerau who was sitting in Haasenberg . In 1397 Johann von Schönfeld, Osteroder Komtur of the Teutonic Order , bought the Marienfelde settlement. He probably wanted to prevent the desert . In 1410 - at the time of the Battle of Tannenberg  - the church, the jug and farmsteads were damaged by the effects of the war. After the jug of Marienfelde had fallen in 1437, the settlement revived; because in 1480 the Commander Merten Truchseß awarded Marienfelde to Hans Birkhahn in return for his loyal service to the Teutonic Order. 60 Hufen belonged to the village including the parish and Schulzenhufen and the mill.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Marienfelde belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Marienfelde, 300 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland had 60 votes.

Religions

Protestant church

The church was built in 1386/87 in the Teutonic Order as a stone building without a choir . She survived the Thirteen Years War . One wanted to merge the parishes of Leip and Marienfelde. Presumably there was temporarily a common pastor based in Leip. Without consulting the bishop, the Marienfelder employed their own pastor in 1577, which reduced the pastor's income in Leip. The sovereign quickly put an end to this arbitrariness. Marienfelde was a branch church of Marwalde from 1817 and became independent in 1925. The last German pastor was Fritz Kollhoff from Königsberg until 1945 .

The church building was thoroughly renovated in 1899. Inside it had a trapezoidal wooden ceiling. The furnishings included an altar from 1860 and an organ from 1850. The bells were cast in 1774. One of them had to be delivered to be melted down during the First World War. After the war it was replaced by a steel bell. Three granite holy water stones date from the 15th century. After a storm severely damaged the church in 1982, it quickly fell into disrepair. The roof fell. In 1989, pastor Jan Reichelt from Kraplau arranged for the bell installed in 1923 with the inscription DEDICATED TO THE LORD IN A DIFFICULT PERIOD AFTER THE WAR SUIT . The German minority in Ostróda and the Osterode district community based in Osterode am Harz collected enough money for the reconstruction.

Catholic Church

In 1900 a Catholic church with a rectory was built in the southwest of the village. A chapel built in 1903 was available for the Catholics in Marienfelde and the surrounding area, for which a vicar was appointed in 1904 . The Treaty of Versailles made the Osterode district a border district on the Polish Corridor . The number of Catholics fell significantly, so that Marienfelde was at times one of the smallest communities in the Archdiocese of Warmia .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osteroder Zeitung, May 2016, p. 53.
  2. ↑ a b c d Glasnoty - Marienfelde (ostpreussen.net)
  3. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 103.
  4. ↑ Osteroder Zeitung, May 2016, p. 56.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There was no real sovereign at that time. From 1577 the Duchy of Prussia had an administrator in George Frederick I , who had been installed by the Polish king and liege lord Stephan Báthory .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 19 ° 55 ′ 0.1 ″  E