Kołowin

Kołowin
	Kołowin
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Mrągowo
Gmina :	Piecki
Geographic location :	53 ° 44 '  N , 21 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '31 "  N , 21 ° 27' 35"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-710
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NMR
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kosowiec / ext. 610 → Kołowin
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kołowin ( German  Kollogienen , also: Collogienen , 1938 to 1945 Kalgienen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to the rural community Piecki ( German  Peitschendorf ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Kołowin is east of the Great Kollogiener See (also: Great Kalgiener See , Polish Jezioro Kołowin ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

history

Today's Osada lesna ( forest settlement) and until after 1871 Collogienen , then called Kollogienen until 1938 , the former forestry belonged to the Kruttinnen State Forest ( Krutyń in Polish ) until 1945 and was a residential area within the municipality of Bubrowko (1938 to 1945 Biebern , Bobrówko in Polish ). Thus it belonged to the district of Sensburg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Kollo Gienen was foreign-sounding place names in "Kalgienen" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed .

As a result of the war, Kollogien resp. Kalgienen 1945 with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish name form "Kołowin". Today the settlement is a place within the rural community Piecki (Peitschendorf) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Kollogien resp. Kalgienen parish in the Protestant Church of Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish of Sensburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Kołowin belongs to the Protestant parish Mikołajki (German Nikolaiken ), which looks after a branch parish in Ukta and is assigned to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the other hand, the place is incorporated into the Catholic parish Ukta in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Kołowin can be reached via a land route from the provincial road 610 via Kosowiec (Kollogien , Modersohn 1926-1945 ) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 492
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kalgienen
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500