Karolewo (Kętrzyn)

Karolewo
	Karolewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Kętrzyn
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '26 "  N , 21 ° 25' 8"  E
Height :	105 m npm
Residents :	100
Postal code :	11-404
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Giżycko ↔ Kętrzyn - Bartoszyce
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
	Kaliningrad

Church in Karolewo

Karolewo (German Carlshof or Karlshof ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the powiat Kętrzyński , which belongs to the rural community Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) .

Panorama of Karolevo

geography

The village is located one kilometer east of Kętrzyn, about 105 meters above sea level. The border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast runs about 30 kilometers north of Karolewo.

history

Institute for epileptics

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On October 31, 1881, the commission for love work of the East and West Prussian Provincial Synod of the Evangelical Church received notification that the sick department of the Provincial Workhouse would be closed due to lack of space and that the 200 inmates, including 27 epileptics , would be released had to. The Rastenburg superintendent Christian Klapp (1832–1905) then received the approval of the synod to found an institution for epileptics and on November 4, 1881 bought a favorably located baronial retirement home near Rastenburg: Carlshof. On October 23, 1882, the institution was handed over to its intended use and the first 36 epileptics were taken over, including the foster people from East and West Prussia who had been housed in the Bodelschwingh institutions in Bethel . After 30 years, the country house with 36 sick people had become a town on the mountains with a house church of around 1,500 souls, Carlshof had become a foster home for the diverse work of the Inner Mission - a home for over 800 epileptics, for almost 200 travelers and just as many Foster children, for 25 alcoholics. 100 employees of the provincial church worked here. Little by little, there was a large farm in four farm yards of 1200 acres, with work opportunities for foster children and pupils. Superintendent Christian Klapp brought the work to the limit of its possibilities; at a funeral, during the funeral service, he suddenly lost his memory and collapsed. He then left the institution in order to later build a hospital and the toddler school in the Neustadt district.

History of the village

The village emerged as a workers' settlement at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1901 the local church was built.

In 1910 the institution had around 1,000 patients, 807 of whom were epilepsy , the others consumptive , mentally ill or alcoholics .

During the time of National Socialism , the patients in the institution were systematically murdered as part of the so-called racial hygiene . During the Second World War , a military hospital was set up in the institute's buildings. An SS school was also officially established here. This was only a camouflage for the stationing of SS soldiers who protected the nearby Wolfsschanze in the village of Görlitz (Gierłoż).

In January 1945 the area was occupied by the Red Army and then fell to Poland . In 1947 an agricultural school began teaching in the partially destroyed buildings of the former institution. By 1974 the school had 3,751 graduates. In 1970 there were 1359 inhabitants in Karolewo. Since 1973 the village has been part of the Kruszewiec Schulzenamt .

As part of an administrative reform in Poland, in which the Olsztyn Voivodeship was dissolved, the village came to the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

traffic

The Voivodship Road 592 (droga wojewódzka 592) runs through Karolewo . It leads to Kętrzyn, about a kilometer away, and ends in the west after about 50 kilometers in Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) . In an easterly direction, the road opens after about 30 kilometers at Giżycko (Lötzen) in the country Straße 59 .

The Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo railway runs through Karolewo, but the place itself no longer has a train station, it is located in Kętrzyn.

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport, about 110 kilometers north of Karolewo on Russian territory. About 220 kilometers to the west is Gdansk Lech Wałęsa Airport , which is the nearest international airport on Polish territory. The Szczytno-Szymany airport is located about 80 kilometers south of Karolewo although it has not adjusted its flight operation at the end of 2006.

sons and daughters of the town

• Hermann Dembowski (* 1928 in Carlshof; † 2012 in Bonn), German Protestant theologian and university professor

literature

• Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 191-192 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ After: Contributions to the history of the Klapp family, edited and compiled by Lieutenant Colonel F. Klapp, Hamburg 1913; shortened