Kalinowo (Giżycko)

Kalinowo
	Kalinowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 21 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '15 "  N , 21 ° 39' 48"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Kętrzyn - Sterławki Wielkie ↔ Giżycko
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Sterławki Małe
Next international airport :	Danzig

Old stone church of Kallinowen

Kalinowo ( German  Kallinowen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Kalinowo is located on the west bank of Lake Taita ( Jezioro Tajty in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, seven kilometers west of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The former Kallinowen originally consisted of two large courtyards. The place was founded in 1559. On August 12th of that year, Duke Albrecht awarded the King of Andresen the Kallinowen estate with three hooves excess. In 1785 Kallinowen was called a köllmisch estate with three fireplaces , and in 1818 it was called a köllmisch village with four fireplaces and 20 residents.

In 1874 Kalli Owen was now an independent rural community , in the newly built office district Kamionken ( Polish Kamionki ) integrated, the - 1928 referred to 1945 "District Steintal" - the circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The population of Kallinowen was 54 in 1910 and 45 in 1925.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kallinowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kallinowen, 20 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On October 1, 1936, Kallinowen was incorporated into Groß Wronnen (Polish: Wrony) and thus lost its independence.

As a result of the war, the village and southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 and since then has borne the Polish name form "Kalinowo". Today it is a village within the Gmina Giżycko (rural municipality Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Kallinowen 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 Kalinowo belongs to the parish to Divine Providence in Sterławki Wielkie (United Stürlack) with the filial community in Sterławki Małe (Small Stürlack) in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Lutheran parish church in Giżycko in the diocese Mazury of Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kalinowo is located on the important Polish voivodship road DW 592 (former German Reichsstrasse 135 ), which connects the district towns of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Giżycko (Lötzen) .

The nearest train station is Sterławki Małe (Klein Stürlack) on the PKP - Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 412
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kallinowen
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kallinowen (Lötzen district)
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Steintal District
5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
6. ↑ 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. 80
7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492