Grajwo

Grajwo also: Osiedle Grajwo
	Grajwo also: Osiedle Grajwo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 ′  N , 21 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 36 "  N , 21 ° 49 ′ 50"  E
Residents :	140 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo - Giżycko ↔ Pisz - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Giżycko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Grajwo [ ˈɡrai̯vɔ ] ( German  Graywen , 1938 to 1945 Graiwen ) and Osiedle Grajwo are two contiguous places in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belong to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Grajwo is located on the south bank of the Grajewko (Graywer See, 1938 to 1945 Graiwer See) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Osiedle ("settlement") Grajwo joins directly in the southwest of the place. It is five kilometers to the northwest to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Graywen was founded as early as 1550 in the Lötzen nursing office during the time of the order . It was a very scattered village. In 1785 it is mentioned as a place with ten fire places , in 1818 with 19 fire places and 141 souls.

In 1874 Graywen was included in the newly established district Sulimmen ( Sulimy in Polish ). It belongs to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

219 residents were registered in 1910 in Graywen. Their number rose to 244 by 1933 and amounted to 245 in 1939. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Graywen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Graywen, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poles received no votes. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, the name spelling was changed from Graywen to "Graiwen".

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Grajwo”. The resettlement of houses and small courtyards made the place appear so spacious that the Osiedle Grajwo was separated in the southwest , but left it in the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Grajwo. Both localities are now part of the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945 Graywen was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Grajwo and osiedle Grajwo belong to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, too, they are oriented towards the city of Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

The elementary school in Graywen or Graiwen in 1945 consisted of two classes.

traffic

Grajwo is located on the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ), which runs through northeastern Poland and connects the Polish-Russian border with the Polish-Belarusian border. The nearest airport is the Giżycko-Mazury Residence landing field , and the nearest railway station is in the city of Giżycko on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 333
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Graiwen
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Graywen
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Sulimmen district
6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 79
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492