Kleszczewo (Miłki)

Kleszczewo also: Kleszczewo-Osada
	Kleszczewo also: Kleszczewo-Osada
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Miłki
Geographic location :	53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '52 "  N , 21 ° 49' 43"  E
Residents :	224 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-513
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ruda / DK 63 ↔ Rydzewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Klszczewo ( German  Kleszewen , 1928 to 1945 Brassendorf ) and Kleszczewo-Osada are two localities in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . They belong to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Kleszczewo is a village on the west bank of the Jezioro Wojnowo ( German  Hessen-See ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is nine kilometers to the northwest to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

The settlement Kleszczewo-Osada is located about one kilometer northwest of the village of Kleszczewo directly on the southern bank of Lake Löwentin ( Jezioro Niegocin in Polish ).

history

The little after 1785 Klesczöwen after 1818 Klöszewen , after 1871 Kleszezewen and until 1938 Kleszewen called village was founded in 1561 and 1571: in 1561 it was in a prescription Wierczeykens (1928-1945 Gregerswalde, Polish Wierciejki ) called, and in 1571 granted the magistrate Georg Toast a new prescription for 55 hooves because the old one was lost in a fire.

From 1874 to 1945, the village in the administrative district was Rydzewen (Polish Rydzewo) integrated, the - the - 1928 in "District Rotwalde" renamed county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. During the same period, Kleszewen was also assigned to the Rydzewen registry office .

In 1910, Kleszewen (sometimes called "Kleszowen" at the time) had 363 inhabitants and was renamed "Brassendorf" on October 16, 1928. The population was 408 in 1933 and 378 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kleszewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kleszewen, 320 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name "Kleszczewo". The Kleszczewo-Osada settlement will also have emerged at that time, for whose existence there is no evidence or even a German name before 1945. Today, Kleszczewo is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and, like Kleszczewo-Osada, is a village within the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Kleszewen was parish in the Protestant Church of Milken 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 Kleszczewo and Kleszczewo-Osada belong to the evangelical parish Giżycko in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church Rydzewo in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

A school was founded in Kleszewen in 1742. In 1945 there were two classes here.

traffic

Kleszczewo and Kleszczewo-Osada can be reached via a side road that branches off the Polish state road DK 63 ( formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Ruda ( German  Ruhden , 1938 to 1945 iron works ) and as a riverside road along the Jezioro Niałk Mały ( German Kleiner Mialk-See ), the Jezioro Niegocin ( German Löwentinsee ) and the Jezioro Boczne ( German Saitensee ) to Rydzewo (Rydzewen, 1927 to 1928 Rotwalde) .    

A railway connection existed until 1945 via the Ruhden / Eisenwerk railway station on the Lötzen – Arys (–Johannisburg) railway line that was shut down and dismantled as a result of the war .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 473
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Brassendorf
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kleszewen
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Rydzewen / Rotwalde
6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492