Kowalewo (Biała Piska)

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Kowalewo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '52 "  N , 22 ° 4' 52"  E
Residents : 194 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Biała Piska / DK 58 / ext. 667 - Bełcząc ↔ Milewo-Gałązki / DP 1868B– Grabowo
Długi Kąt - Mikuty → Kowalewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Kowalewo ( German  Kowalewen , 1938 to 1945 Richtwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Field stone construction of an old barn in Kowalewo

Geographical location

Kowalewo located in the southern eastern part of the Warmia and Mazury, two kilometers northwest of the former German-Polish border (present border between the provinces of Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie ) and 20 kilometers southeast of the county seat Pisz ( German  Johannesburg ).

history

The as Przyborowen founded in 1428 and in 1540 Kovaleva , after 1540 Kowallewa , after 1871 Kowallewen and until 1938 Kowalewen called village was established at the initiative of the Teutonic Knights as departmental traffic with 30 hooves after köllmischem law .

From 1874 to 1945 the place was incorporated into the Morgen district.

In 1910 there were 283 residents registered in Kowalewen, in 1933 there were 272.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kowalewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kowalewen, 220 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names, the village was in "directional Walde" on June 3, 1938 renamed . In 1939 the population was still 265.

When all of southern East Prussia was surrendered to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Kowalewen was also affected. The village received the Polish form of name "Kowalewo" and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt . As a locality, it is part of the urban and rural community of Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Kowalewo had 194 inhabitants.

Religions

Until 1945 Kowalewen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kumilsko in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Kowalewo belongs to the Catholic parish of Biała Piska . It maintains a Kowalewo in the Maximilian Kolbe dedicated filial community and is in the Diocese of Ełk the Roman Catholic Church in Poland incorporated. The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the town of Biała Piska , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Kowalewen became a school location in 1737.

traffic

Kowalewo is on a side road that leads from Biała Piska via Bełcząc (BiałaPiska) Bełcząc (Belzonzen , 1938 to 1945 Großdorf) to the Podlaskie Voivodeship and as Droga powiatowa 1868B to Grabowo . In addition, Kowalewo can be reached from Długi Kąt (Klarheim , Dlugikont until 1903 ) via Mikuty (Mykutten , Mikutten from 1938 to 1945 ) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 524
  2. ↑ a b Droga powiatowa = "county road"
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Richtwalde
  4. ↑ a b c Kowalewen - Richtwalde in family research Sczuka
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, District of Tomorrow
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ 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. 75
  9. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  10. ^ Wieś Kowalewo w liczbach
  11. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
  12. ^ Parish Biała Piska