Kolonia (Świętajno)

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Colonia
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Kolonia (Poland)
Colonia
Colonia
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 53 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '18 "  N , 21 ° 16' 0"  E
Residents : 780 (2011)
Postal code : 12-140
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Spychowo / DK 59 ↔ Świętajno
Racibórz - Łąck Wielki → Kolonia
Faryny - Długi Borek → Kolonia
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Kolonia ( German  Grünwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Kolonia is located south of the Ratzeburg Lake ( Jezioro Świętajno Łąckie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).  

Entrance to Kolonia

history

Grünwalde was founded by German returnees from northern East Prussia . The clearing took place in 1820. 16 peasant farmers, eight owners as well as a blacksmith and a school teacher set up their homes here. In 1864 the neighboring village of Gurken ( Górki in Polish , no longer existing) was incorporated.

In 1874 Grünwalde came to the newly established Schwentainen District ( Świętajno in Polish ), which - renamed "Altkirchen District (Eastern Prussia)" in 1938 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . 654 inhabitants were registered in Grünwalde in 1910.

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 Grünwalde, 467 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Grünwalde expanded to include the neighboring village of Lontzig ( Łąck Wielki in Polish ), which was incorporated. The number of inhabitants rose to 676 by 1933 and amounted to 725 in 1939.

Green forest came in 1945 in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Kolonia". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The number of inhabitants in 2011 was 780.

church

Until 1945 the village of Grünwalde with gherkins and Lontzig was parish in the Protestant church Schwentainen (Ortelsburg district) , the forestry in the church Puppen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and also in the Roman Catholic church Ortelsburg in the diocese of Ermland .

Today Kolonia belongs evangelically to the parish of Szczytno in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, there is now a chapel in Kolonia , which is cared for by the St. Andrew Bobola Parish Świętajno in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The school in Grünwalde was founded by Friedrich Wilhelm III. In 1916 a new building was built with space for four classes and four teacher's apartments.

traffic

Kolonia is on a side road that leads from Spychowo (Puppen) on national road 59 to Świętajno . In addition, side roads from the north and south end in Kolonia.

Kolonia is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ).

Personalities

Monument to Bogumil Linka in Olsztyn (Olsztyn)

Native of the place

  • Gottlieb (= Bogumił) Linka (born February 5, 1865 in the Gurken district, in Polish Górki ), Polish-Masurian social activist († 1920)

Web links

Historical recordings from Grünwalde:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Kolonia w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 488 (Polish)
  3. ↑ a b c Grünwalde at the Ortelsburg district community
  4. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grünwalde
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Schwentainen / Altkirchen district (Eastern Pr.)
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ 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. 95
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  9. ^ Urząd Gminy Świętajno: Sołectwa
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  11. ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF