Kobiel

Kobiel
	Kobiel
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	53 ° 36 '  N , 21 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '19 "  N , 21 ° 14' 9"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Piasutno → Kobiel
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kobiel ( German  Kobiel , 1938 to 1945 Seeblick ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Kobiel is located on the west bank of the Ratzeburg Lake ( Jezioro Świętajno Łąckie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 17 kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).  

history

The Kobiel forestry department was founded around 1800. Until 1945 it belonged to the state forest of Ratzeburg (Polish Racibórz ) and was a residential area in the municipality of Piassutten (1938 to 1945 Seenwalde , Polish Piasutno ). For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names, Kobiel was renamed "Seeblick" on June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16, 1938.

With the whole of southern East Prussia , the small town was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and received the - now Polish - name form "Kobiel" back. As Waldsiedlung ( Polish Osada leśna ) Kobiel is now a village within the Gmina Świętajno (Town Schwentainen , 1938-1945 Altkirchen (Ostpr.) ) In Szczytno County (District Szczytno ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

church

Until 1945 Kobiel resp. Lake view of the Evangelical Church of Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Kobiel belongs to the St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Jerutki in the current Archdiocese of Warmia and, on the Protestant side, to the Szczytno Church in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kobiel can only be reached by land from Piasutno (Piassutten , 1938 to 1945 Seenwalde) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Seeblick
2. ↑ Piasutno / Lakes forest near the Kreisgemeinschaft Ortelsburg
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
4. ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF