Kowalewskie

Kowalewskie
	Kowalewskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Wydminy
Geographic location :	54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '32 "  N , 22 ° 7' 50"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pietrasze / ext. 655 ↔ Szczybały Orłowskie - Orłowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kowalewskie ( German  Kowalewsken ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Kowalewskie is located on the eastern shore of Lake Gablick ( Jezioro Gawlik in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is located 24 kilometers to the west.

history

The present -day hamlet ( osada in Polish ), called Kowalewsken at the time, consisted of a few small farms and farmsteads before 1945. The former rural community was formed around 1898 from the union of the two rural communities Groß- and Klein Kowalewsken. They were both still in 1874 separately in the District Orlowen ( Polish Orłowo been incorporated), which - in 1938 in "District Adlersdorf" renamed - existed until 1945 and the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kowalewsken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kowalewsken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

In 1925 Kowalewsken had 109 inhabitants.

Kowalewskens was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Sczyballen (Ksp. Orlowen) (1938 to 1945 Lorenzhall, Polish: Szczybały Orłowskie) probably before 1933 . As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Kowalewskie". Today the small village is part of the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Kowalewsken was parish in the Evangelical Church Orlowen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, Kowalewskie belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a subsidiary of the Giżycko parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Church of St. Casimir in Orłowo in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Kowalewskie is not far from the voivodship road DW 655 and can be reached via a side road that branches off at Pietrasze (Pietraschen , 1938 to 1945 Petersgrund) in the direction of Orłowo.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kowalewsken
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Orlowen / Adlersdorf district
3. ↑ 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. 80
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492
6. ↑ Groß Kowalewsken