Klewno

Klewno
	Klewno
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Reszel
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '51 "  N , 21 ° 10' 49"  E
Height :	130 m npm
Residents :	262 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-440
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Reszel / ext. 590 ↔ Siemki
	Worpławki → Klewno
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
Administration (as of 2007)
Village chief :	Krzysztof Wojciech Pikała
Address:	Klewno 12 11-440 Reszel

Klewno ( German  Klawsdorf ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The village is the seat of the Schulzenamt of the same name ( Polish Sołectwo ) in the Gmina Reszel ( urban and rural community Rößel ) in the powiat Kętrzyński (district Rastenburg ).

Geographical location

The village is located about one kilometer northeast of the city center of Reszel, about 130 meters above sea level . Kętrzyn is 13 kilometers east of Klewno. The state border between Poland and the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast runs around 30 kilometers to the north .

history

The village was localized on November 1, 1336 in the Prussian region of Lauchogede (pr. Gedian : bushes) . The name indicates a vegetation with maple trees (lett. Klava , lit. klevas ). The founders, Klausio and Susik , received 60 Hufe land and an exemption from taxes for ten years. Settlement progressed very slowly and it was not until 1586 that all of the available land was cultivated. In the 18th century the village was called Clausdorf , but in the following centuries it changed to Klawsdorf from the Prussian name Clawke or Klawke .

In 1847 Aleksander Droz was the owner of the village. On July 9, 1874 Klawsdorf office Village was and eponymous for a District , which existed until 1945 and the county Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Initially seven villages were assigned to him, and at the end two more. On September 30, 1928, the Worplack manor district (Polish Worpławki ) was incorporated into Klawsdorf.

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 Klawsdorf, 640 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

At the end of the Second World War , the area and with it Klewno was taken by the Red Army . As a result of the war, the village became part of Poland. On July 17, 1945 it became the seat of a rural community with eleven school offices. The municipal area covers an area of ​​10,940 hectares on which 2,010 people lived. Municipality Head was Aleksander Karpowicz . In the same year the parish seat was relocated to Reszel (Rößel) . In 1976 a cultural space was inaugurated. In 1973, the Klewno Schulzenamt included the Mojkowo (Annahof) and Wólka Ryńska (Rheindorfshof) settlements in addition to Klewno itself . Wólka Ryńska is now part of the Robawy Schulzenamt (Robawen , 1938 to 1945 Robaben) . Following administrative reform across Poland, the village has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999 .

Population development

In 1783 there were 35 houses in the village, in 1820 there were 44.

year	1820	1848	1885	1905	1910	1933	1939	2011
population	274	521	893	639	817	842	892	262

District of Klawsdorf (1874–1945)

When it was founded, the Klawsdorf district included:

German name	Polish name	Remarks
Kattmedien	Kocibórz	1928 incorporated in Labendzowo
Klawsdorf	Klewno
Labendzowo 1932–1945 Schwanau	Łabędziewo	In 1930 reclassified to the Loszainen district
Ramten	Ramty	1928 incorporated into Robawen
Rheindorfshof	Wólka Ryńska	1928 incorporated into Robawen
Robawen 1938–1945 Robaben	Robawy
Worplack	Worpławki	1928 incorporated in Klawsdorf

On January 1, 1945 only Klawsdorf and Robaben belonged to the Klawsdorf district.

church

Until 1945 Klawsdorf was parish in the Protestant Church Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Rößel in the then diocese of Warmia .

For Klewno today there is again a reference to the Catholic parish church in Reszel, now located in the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant church members orientate themselves to the parish in Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

In 1935 there was a school in Klawsdorf with two teachers and 118 school children. In 1976 a four-class primary school was inaugurated.

traffic

From Reszel a road leads to Siemki ( Scharfs ) , which runs through Klewno.

Klewno no longer has its own rail connection. Until the war-related closure in 1945, Klawsdorf was a train station on the Bischdorf – Neumühl railway line . Most of it has been dismantled. The next train station is now in Korsze (Korschen), twelve kilometers to the north, and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg), 13 kilometers to the east .

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport, about 100 kilometers north of Klewno on Russian territory. About 180 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 65 kilometers south of Klewno, but this stopped its flight operations at the end of 2006.

literature

• Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 193-194 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 4, 2017
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 474
3. ↑ Przybytek, Rozalia, Hydronymia Europaea, place names of Baltic origin in the southern part of East Prussia, Stuttgart 1993, p. 117 / Gerullis, Georg: Die old Prussian place names, Berlin, Leipzig 1922, p. 65
4. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, Klawsdorf district
5. ↑ 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. 108
6. ↑ BIP of Reszel ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2007 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. 
7. ^ Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in "Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic" , Olsztyn 1978, p. 193
8. ↑ ^{a b} Klawsdorf at GenWiki
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490