Kałwągi

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Kałwągi
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Kałwągi (Poland)
Kałwągi
Kałwągi
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Korsze
Geographic location : 54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '26 "  N , 21 ° 3' 40"  E
Residents : 123 (2011)
Postal code : 11-430
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Prosna - Wetyn → Kałwągi
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Kałwągi
2009-07 Kałwągi 1.jpg

Kałwągi ([ kaʊ̯ˈvɔŋɟi ], German  Kaltwangen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Korsze ( urban and rural municipality Korschen ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Kałwągi is about 14 kilometers south of Poland's state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . The nearest towns are Sępopol (Schippenbeil) about six kilometers northwest and Korsze about eight kilometers southeast.

history

Today's Kałwągi was laid out in the 14th century under Kulm law . In 1359 Winrich von Kniprode also granted the village two acres of land, which means that the village, which already had a tavern, included 50 Hufen (around 900 hectares) of land. Of these, 5 Hufen (almost 90 hectares) belonged to the village mayor. In 1419 the place was mentioned as Caltwange, a Prussian name made up of “cold” (sandy place) and “wangus” (oak forest). In 1785 the village had 24 houses, in 1817 there were 22 with 215 inhabitants.

From 1874 to 1945 Kaltwangen was incorporated into the Prassen district ( Prosna in Polish ). It belonged to the district of Rastenburg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On December 1, 1920, there were 263 inhabitants in Kaltwangen, 201 in 1933 and 172 in 1939.

In 1970 there were 183 inhabitants. That year there was a primary school as well as a library point. Since the abolition of the Gromadas in 1972, the village and six other localities have formed a Schulzenamt. In 2011 Kałwągi had 123 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Kaltwangen was parish in the Protestant Church of Leunenburg ( Polish Sątoczno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Sturmhübel (Polish Grzęda ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Kałwągi belongs to the Protestant parish Kętrzyn - with the branch churches Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) and Barciany (Barten) - in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish of Sątoczno in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Kałwągi can be reached via a side road that leads from Prosna (Prassen) via Wetyn (Wettin) into the village.

The nearest train station is in Korsze, eight kilometers away.

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport, about 90 kilometers north of Kałwągi on Russian territory and outside the European Union . About 190 kilometers to the west is Gdansk Lech Wałęsa Airport , which is the closest international airport on Polish territory. The Szczytno-Szymany Airport is located about 80 kilometers south of Kałwągi, but only has seasonal international flight movements.

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 190-191 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Kałwągi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 413
  2. Przybytek, Rozalia, Hydronymia Europaea, place names of Baltic origin in the southern part of East Prussia, Stuttgart 1993, p. 96
  3. ^ Tadeusz Swat, 1978, p. 191
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Prassen district
  5. http://www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900/gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/rastenburg.htm
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastenburg district (Polish Ketrzyn). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Wieś Kałwągi w liczbach
  8. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
  9. Kaltwangen at GenWiki