Kruszewo (Biała Piska)

Kruszewo
	Kruszewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 38 '  N , 22 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '5 "  N , 22 ° 7' 7"  E
Residents :	117 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	1678N: Biała Piska / DK 58 / ext. 667 - Konopki ↔ Dmusy - Rożyńsk Wielki - Taczki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kruszewo ( German  Krussewen , 1938 to 1945 Erztal ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to Gmina Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Kruszewo is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 20 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The little after 1777 Krußewen , after 1895 Krussöwen , 1910 Kruszewen and until 1938 Krussewen called village was as free village with 30 hooves in 1471 by the Teutonic Knights after kölmischem law established.

In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established Belzonzen district (renamed "Großdorf (Ostpr.) District " in 1938), which belonged to the Johannisburg district .

The number of residents of Krussewen was 170 in 1910, compared to 181 in 1933. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Krussewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 that they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Krussewen, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, the village was foreign-sounding place names in "Erztal" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population rose to 186 by 1939.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Erztal was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name "Kruszewo" and is today the seat of a Schulzenamt and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community 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 Kruszewo had 117 inhabitants.

Religions

Until 1945 Krussewen resp. Erztal parish in the Protestant Church of Bialla in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Kruszewo belongs to the parish Biała Piska in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Biała Pisz, which is a branch parish of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

From 1529 there was a school in Krussewen.

traffic

Kruszewo is located on a side road that leads from the town of Biała Piska northeast to the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 623
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Erztal
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Krussewen / Erztal in family research Sczuka . Dietrich Lange names the founding year 1519
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Belzonzen / Großdorf (OSTP).
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
6. ^ ^{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). 
7. ↑ 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
8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
9. ↑ Wieś Kruszewo w liczbach