Grabowo (Janowo)

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Grabowo (Poland)
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Grabowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Nidzica
Gmina : Janowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 21 '  N , 20 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '0 "  N , 20 ° 35' 10"  E
Residents : 50 (2011)
Postal code : 13-113
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NNI
Economy and Transport
Street : Muszaki / ext. 604 → Grabowo
Rail route : Nidzica – Wielbark railway line (currently closed)
Railway station: Muszaki
Next international airport : Danzig



Grabowo ( German  Groß Grabowen , 1938 to 1945 Großeppingen ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).

Geographical location

Grabowo is located in the southwestern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers east of the district town of Nidzica ( German  Neidenburg ).

history

Grabowo , after 1820 Groß Grabowen , was founded before 1498. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was incorporated into the Muschaken district ( Muszaki in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg .

In 1910 there were 142 inhabitants registered in Groß Grabowen, in 1933 there were 154.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938, Groß Grabowen was renamed "Großeppingen" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population was 165 in 1939.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Großeppingen was also affected. The village was given the Polish form of name "Grabowo" and is now a place within the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs. In 2011 Grabowo had 50 inhabitants.

church

Groß Grabowen resp. Großeppingen was parish in the Protestant Church Muschaken (Polish: Muszaki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 , and also in the Roman Catholic Church of Neidenburg (Polish: Nidzica ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Grabowo belongs on the Catholic side to Muszaki in the Archdiocese of Warmia , on the Protestant side to the parish Nidzica in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Grabowo is located south of the busy Voivodship Road 604 and can be reached directly from there via the junction in Muszaki. Muszaki is also the closest train station to the Nidzica – Wielbark railway line , which is currently not used .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Grabowo w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 332 (Polish)
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Großeppingen
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Muschaken district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495
  8. ↑ circle Neidenburg in AGoFF