Karwie (Mrągowo)

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Karwie (Poland)
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Karwie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mrągowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 50 '  N , 21 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '54 "  N , 21 ° 16' 1"  E
Residents : 313 (2011)
Postal code : 11-700
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 600 : MrągowoGrabowo - Borowe - Szczytno
Bagienice / DK 16 → Karwie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Karwie [ ˈkarvjɛ ] ( German  Karwen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Mrągowo ( rural municipality Sensburg ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Karwie is located on the east bank of the Karwsee (also: Karwer See in Polish Jezioro Karw ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , five kilometers southwest of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

history

Originally called Karffen , Karben after 1585 and Carwen after 1843 , the village was founded in 1555. From 1874 to 1945, Karwen was incorporated into the Grabowen district (in Polish: Grabowo ), which - renamed "Grabenhof district" in 1938 - belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 520 residents were registered in the municipality of Karwen. Their number decreased to 469 by 1933 and was still 419 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Karwen, 360 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

With all of southern East Prussia , Karwen was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and was given the Polish form of name "Karwie". Today, the village seat of a Schulz Office (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the composite of Gmina Mrągowo (Town Sensburg ) in mrągowo county (Kreis Sensburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn Province (Olsztyn) , since the Warmia and Mazury belong. In 2011 Karwie had 313 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Karwen was parish in the Protestant parish church of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

The reference to the evangelical church in Mrągowo, now known as St. Trinity Church , still exists today. Only now it belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Karwie now belongs to the parish Grabowo (Grabowen , 1938 to 1945 Grabenhof) in the present Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Karwie is located on Voivodship Road 600 , which connects the two regions of Mrągowo (Sensburg) and Szczytno (Ortelsburg) . A side street leads from Landesstraße 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ) from Bagienice (Alt Bagnowen , 1938 to 1945 Althöfen) directly to Karwie. The place is not connected to the rail network.

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 423
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Karwen
  3. a b Karwen (Sensburg district)
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabowen / Grabenhof district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. 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. 113
  8. Wieś Karwie w liczbach