Krawno

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Krawno
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Krawno (Poland)
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Krawno
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Piecki
Geographic location : 53 ° 40 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '56 "  N , 21 ° 13' 25"  E
Residents : 21 (2011)
Postal code : 11-710
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Babięta / DK 58 → Krawno
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Krawno ( German  Krawno , 1938 to 1945 Kaddig ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Piecki ( German  Peitschendorf ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Krwano is located on the south-east bank of the Kleiner Krawno Lake (1938 to 1945 Kleiner Kaddig Lake , Jezioro Krawienko in Polish ) and 500 meters southeast of the - already in the area of ​​Gmina Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ) - Great Krawno Lake (1938 to 1945 Great Kaddig Lake , in Polish Jezioro Krawno ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers south of the district town of Mrągowo (Sensburg) .

history

Before 1945 Krawno consisted of several small homesteads. In 1785 it was mentioned as a "royal village with six stoves". Between 1874 and 1945 the village in was District Kelbonken ( polish Stare Kiełbonki ) integrated, the - the - in "District Kelbunken" renamed in 1938 Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Krawno belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Krawno, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Krawno was foreign-sounding place names in "Kaddig" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed .

The village of Kaddig was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia and was given back the former name "Krawno" as a Polish form of name. Today the place is incorporated into the rural community Piecki (Peitschendorf) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1818 38
1839 77
1871 87
1885 112
1898 119
1905 110
1910 110
1933 83
1939 83
2011 21st

church

Until 1945 Krawno resp. Kaddig parish in the Protestant Church of Aweyden in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Krawno belongs to the evangelical parish Nawiady , a branch parish of the parish Mrągowo in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , also to the Catholic parish of Nawiady in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

"Tatar hiking route"

A beautiful hiking trail called the "Tatar hiking route" leads through Krawno . The marked hiking trail begins in the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ) and ends in Babięta (Babienten , 1938 to 1945 Babenten) . He follows the trail of the Tatars who invaded southern Masuria in 1656 .

traffic

Krawno is located west of the state road 58 , which is important in terms of traffic and runs through the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the Podlaskie Voivodeship . A country road leads from the village Babięta, which is located on the same road, directly into the village. There is no connection to the rail network .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 618
  2. ↑ Until 1938 the place in German had the Polish name form that had been in effect since 1945
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kaddig
  4. ↑ a b c Krawno at GenWiki
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Kelbonken / Kelbunken district
  6. ↑ 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. 113
  7. ↑ Wieś Krawno w liczbach
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500
  9. ↑ Maren Rathke, Discovering Masuria. With Königsberg, Danzig and Thorn , Berlin, 6th edition 2007 - ISBN 978-3-89794-096-3