Karszewo (Korsze)

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Karszewo (Poland)
Karszewo
Karszewo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Korsze
Geographic location : 54 ° 12 '  N , 21 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '20 "  N , 21 ° 8' 32"  E
Residents : 89 (2011)
Postal code : 11-430
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Giełpsz ↔ Wiklewko - Wiklewo
Bykowo → Karszewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Karszewo ( German  Karschau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Korsze ( urban and rural municipality Korschen ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Karszewo is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 20 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

Before 1945 what was then Karschau was a village with a large estate. 1874 was in the newly built office district Dönhofstädt ( Polish Drogosze ) incorporated, which the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On September 30, 1928, the Karschau manor district and the Glittehnen manor district ( Glitajny in Polish ) merged to form the new rural community of Karschau. This was followed on May 23, 1929, when the Karschau community was reclassified from the Dönhofstädt district to the Korschen district .

In 1910 there were 198 residents registered in Karschau, in 1933 there were already 460 and in 1939 434.

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Karschau was also affected. The village was given the Polish form of the name "Karszewo" and is now part of the municipality of Korsze (Korschen) in the Kętrzyński powiat ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 the number of inhabitants was 89.

church

Until 1945 Karschau 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 of Korschen in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Karszewo belongs to the evangelical part of the parish in Kętrzyn with subsidiary communities in Barciany (Barten) and Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) within the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, the next parish is the one in Korsze , now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Karszewo is on a side street that leads from Giełpsz ( German  Gelbsch ) via Wiklewko (Klein Winkeldorf) to Wiklewo (Winkeldorf) . From Bykowo (Bollendorf) there is an overland connection to Karszewo. There is no rail link.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 423
  2. ^ A b Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Karschau
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Dönhofstädt district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Rastenburg district
  5. ↑ Michael Rademacher, German-Austrian local book 1871–1990, Rastenburg district
  6. ↑ Wieś Karszewo w liczbach
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473