Karnity
Karnity (German: Karnitte ) is a Polish village in the former East Prussia , which belongs to the municipality of Miłomłyn (Liebemühl) as a Schulzenamt in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
geography
Karnity is located in the north of the Pojezierze Iławskie ( German Eylauer Seeplatte ) and is 16 kilometers by road in a westerly direction from the central municipality of Miłomłyn. The place consists of two settlements (formerly Groß and Klein Karnitte), separated by a forest area, 1.3 km apart. The former Groß Karnitte lies on the Jezioro Karnickie ( Abiskar Lake in German ), which is divided by a dam from the Oberland Canal . The smaller district to the west, formerly Klein Karnitte, is located on Jezioro Kocioł ( German Kesselsee ), which at 0.8 km² is only about half the size of Abiskar Lake (1.5 km²). While forest and heathland dominate north of Karnity, the south is dominated by agricultural land. The place can be reached via a spur road that branches off the road between Miłomłyn and Boreczno ( Schnellwalde ) .
history
The story goes back to the 14th century, when Karnythen was mentioned in connection with the enfeoffment of Groß Gottswalde (today Bożęcin) in 1349. This is the later Vorwerk Groß Karnitte, which was created as a German settlement. It was only later that the Vorwerk Klein Karnitte came into being. It can no longer be determined whether the two outworks belonged to the same owner from the start. It was not until 1928 that it was merged into the rural community of Karnitte. Carcuts were initially under the influence of the Teutonic Order . After the Thirteen Years' War in 1470, he enfeoffed the Silesian mercenary leader Hans von Schöneich with carcasses as payment for his military service. Since he expanded his estate in the neighboring Schnellwalde , Karnitte became the Vorwerk. The manor house built on Klein Karnitte by the von Schöneich family burned down in 1635 during the Thirty Years War . The Schnellwalder Gut, including carcuts, was owned by the von Schöneich family for over three hundred years.
In 1815 the Baron von Albedyhll , who came from Riga , acquired the Karnitter shares together with three other estates. At that time, the administratively independent manor districts Groß and Klein Karnitte were already recorded , which now belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1856 a new mansion was built in Klein Karnitte. In the course of the Prussian district order, the Karnitt district was set up on July 30, 1874 , to which the rural community Schnellwalde also belonged in addition to the two manor districts of Karnitt. Baron von Albedyll was appointed the first head of office. In 1910 Groß Karnitt had 108 and Klein Karnitte 82 inhabitants.
The last heir to the von Albedyll family was Christa Freiin von Albedyhll. In 1926 she married Hans Arnold von Günther, who then became landlord on Karnitte. On September 30, 1928, the manor districts were abolished and the rural community of Karnitt was founded with two other places, which in 1933 had 190 inhabitants. In 1932 Günther's marriage was divorced and Hans Arnold entered into a new marriage with Herta von Oven from Berlin. As the estate ran into economic difficulties, the manor house had to be sold to the city of Mohrungen . Günther's husband and wife withdrew to the farm in Groß Karnitte. When they left towards the end of the Second World War they were too late to flee from the Red Army , so that the front overtook Holland near Prussian Holland . Thereupon both shot each other on January 23, 1945 at Gut Klein Marwitz. In 1945, Karnitt came under Polish administration and was renamed Karnity.
Karnitt Castle
Before the Thirty Years' War there was already a manor house in Karnitte, but it burned down during the war. In 1856, the Karnitter lord of Albedyhll ordered a new mansion to be built in Klein Karnitte. The result was a charming, romantic Tudor-style ensemble on the banks of the Kesselsee in the middle of a 17-hectare park.
The house consists of several nested building parts. They are underpinned with field stones and pulled up from red clinker bricks. The three main parts of the house, arranged in steps, are flanked to the east and west by two towers, the west on an octagonal plan, the east on a square plan. All outer walls are crenellated and have a flat roof. An open entrance hall with pointed arches and an openwork balustrade is added to the south front. Inside, the wooden paneling, beamed ceilings and chimneys of the representative rooms have been preserved.
After the city of Mohrungen acquired the manor house in the early 1930s, it was used as a youth home until the end of World War II. It was then left to the Warsaw Tractor Factory Ursus SA , which set up a rest home and a conference center in the building. In 1995 the Mistral company acquired the property and converted the former mansion into the "Schloss Hotel Karnity".
literature
- Jackiewicz / Garniec: castles and manor houses in the former East Prussia . Studio Arta, Olsztyn 2001, ISBN 978-83-91-28403-2 , p. 108.
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ N , 19 ° 44 ′ E