Kleszczewo (Wieliczki)

Kleszczewo
	Kleszczewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Wieliczki
Geographic location :	53 ° 56 '  N , 22 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '39 "  N , 22 ° 33' 26"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-404
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Wieliczki / ext. 655 - Nory ↔ Guty - Wysokie / DK 16
	Puchówka → Kleszczewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kleszczewo ( German  Kleszöwen , 1936 to 1938 Kleschöwen , 1938 to 1945 Kleschen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which is part of the rural community of Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ) heard.

Geographical location

Kleszczewo is located on the Lega river in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers south of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

Founded Clöschtzewa (after 1785 Klesczöwen until 1936 Kleszöwen called) in the year 1488th

From 1874 to 1945 the village was incorporated into the district of Nordenthal ( Polish: Nory ), which - changed in 1938 in the spelling to "District of Nordental" - belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Kleszöwen recorded 450 inhabitants in 1910. Their number rose to 464 by 1933 and was still 429 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kleszöwen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Kleszöwen 360 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland had one vote.

On September 17, 1936, the spelling of the place name was changed to "Kleschöwen" until, on June 3, 1938, the village was renamed to "Kleschen" for political and ideological reasons to ward off foreign-sounding place names.

In 1945 the village was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Kleszczewo". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a village within the Gmina Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria .

Religions

Until 1945 Kleszöwen resp. Kleschöwen / Kleschen in the Evangelical Church of Wielitzken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Kleszczewo belongs to the Catholic parish Wieliczki , which maintains a chapel (in Polish kaplica ) in Kleszczweo . It is incorporated into the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here orientate themselves towards the churches in Ełk (Lyck) and Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kleszczewo is on a side road that connects Wieliczki on the voivodship road DW 655 via Nory (Nordenthal , 1938 to 1945 Nordental) and Guty (Gutten) with Wysokie (Wyssocken , 1938 to 1945 Waltershöhe) on the state road DK 16 . In addition, a side street from Puchówka (Puchowken , 1929 to 1945 Wiesenfelde) leads directly into the village. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 473
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of East Prussia (2005): Kleschen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Nordenthal / Nordental
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 65
7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484
8. ↑ Parafia Wieliczki in the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.