Kraszewo (Lidzbark Warmiński)

Kraszewo ( German Reichenberg ) is a village in the rural municipality Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) in the Powiat Lidzbarski ( Heilsberger Kreis ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Reichenberg ( Reichenbg. ) East of Elbing and southwest of Heilsberg on a map from 1910

The village is located in the historic East Prussia region , about five kilometers southwest of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 34 kilometers north of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).

history

Village panorama

Village church

Village church from a different perspective

Chapel in the village

In 1945, the farming village Reichenberg for part circle Heilsberg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia of the German Reich .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, Reichenberg became part of the People's Republic of Poland together with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia in the summer of 1945 under the name of Kraszewo in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . Had not fled as far as the local villagers, they were in the aftermath of Reichenberg sold .

Today the village forms a Schulzenamt within the rural municipality Lidzbark Warmiński in the powiat Lidzbarski within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (1975 to 1998 Olsztyn Voivodeship ).

Population development until 1945

year	Residents	Remarks
1816	252
1852	441
1858	463	exclusively Catholics
1910	426
1933	495
1939	493

Parish

Before 1945, the majority Catholic population of Reichenberg belonged to the parish Reichenberg in the Diocese of Warmia , while the Protestant part of the population was assigned to the parish Heilsberg in the parish of Braunsberg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

The local Catholic church members now belong to the Lidzbark Warmiński deanery in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members today belong to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland .

Web links

Reichenberg District (Rolf Jehke, 2012)
GenWiki: Reichenberg (East Prussia)

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 4: P – S , Halle 1823, p. 128, item 997.
^ Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Berlin 1856, p. 503.
↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 112, paragraph 107.
↑ http://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/heilsberg.htm
↑ ^a ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heilsberg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

54.0823 20.5418Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ' N , 20 ° 33' E

[AAM-1] Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 4: P – S , Halle 1823, p. 128, item 997.

[2] Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Berlin 1856, p. 503.

[3] Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 112, paragraph 107.

[4] ttp://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/heilsberg.htm

[MR-5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heilsberg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).