Majewo (Milejewo)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Elbląski | ||
| Gmina : | Milejewo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 13 ' N , 19 ° 35' E | ||
| Residents : | 280 (2006) | ||
| License plate : | NEB | ||
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| Next international airport : | Gdansk Airport | ||
The village of Majewo ( German maypole ) is a village in the rural municipality of Milejewo (Trunz) in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northern Poland near the Baltic coast .
geography
Majewo is located in a one kilometer long valley, about 14 kilometers from Elbing in a north-easterly direction in the Elbinger Höhe , near the former provincial border West Prussia / East Prussia. The Steinau brook flows through the village and flows into the Bludau .
Neighboring places Majewos are clockwise (German names in brackets), starting with Milejewo in a westerly direction:
Milejewo (Trunz)
- Ogrodniki (Baumgart)
- Zajączkowo (Haselau)
- Rychnowy (zurückau)
- (Alt Munsterberg)
- (Schönberg)
- Kamiennik Wielki (Groß-Stoboi)
history
The village was founded around 1305 by the Teutonic Commander Heinrich von Gera . The locator Johann Klemme settled here with settlers from the Low German area (middle Elbe, Altmark ) and became the first village mayor.
In the middle of the 15th century, the rule of the Teutonic Order ( Battle of Tannenberg ) came to an end and in the turmoil that followed, Maypole was often affected. For example during the Swedish-Polish Wars , the Northern War and the Seven Years War . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the area around Elbing came to Poland. The next level of administration was the Starostei Tolkemit during the time under the Polish crown . Around 1619, Maibaum belonged to the Malborskie Voivodeship in Poland . As the village was often pledged to the city of Elbing and the Protestant church Neu-Münsterberg (founded in 1599) was in the immediate vicinity, the residents of Maibaum felt more drawn to Protestantism. Later on, the maypoles went to the Protestant church in Trunz. During the first Polish partition in 1772, the area became Prussian again and the Starostei Tolkemit became the Royal Prussian Domain Office Tolkemit within the province of West Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia. The Tolkemit area in turn belonged to the Marienburg circle of the war and domain chamber of Marienwerder. From July 1, 1818, Maibaum belonged to the newly formed district of Elbing in the administrative district of Danzig.
Through the stay of French troops under Napoleon in the Fourth Coalition War and his Russian campaign , the population was exposed to looting and reprisals and as a result suffered from hunger. Typhus, dysentery and plague were also brought with them by the French.
In 1807, peasant serfdom was abolished in Prussia. The separation took place in 1861. Instead of a joint management of the entire district, the private sector came into being. Each farmer received part of the agricultural area and managed it independently. On September 10, 1892, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife Empress Auguste Viktoria were at the nearby "Quitschberg" during a troop exercise. On July 12, 1906, a fire destroyed 9 farms. In 1912, 12 children died of a diphtheria epidemic .
During the First World War , 33 residents died on the battlefields. A war memorial bearing the names of the fallen was inaugurated in 1921. In 1921 the "May tree gymnastics and sports club" was founded. In 1933 it was dissolved.
A total of 59 villagers were killed in World War II . Around the 26./27. January 1945 the first Soviet troops entered the village from the northwest. Twelve elderly people were shot. Because the cemetery in the neighboring community of Trunz, which had meanwhile been leveled, no longer had any space for the dead, they were buried in the forest south of the village. The German population was expelled until 1946. Under Polish administration, the village was given its current name Majewo. The population today is 280.
Place name
around 1400 - Meyenbom, 1434–1450 - Meybom, 1789 - Meybaum, 20th century - Maypole, since 1945/46 - Majewo
Population development
In a family list from 1772 there are 355 people. In 1848 there are already 615 inhabitants. On December 1, 1885 there were 704 and exactly 25 years later 645 inhabitants. In 1925 there are 671 inhabitants. In 1930 there were 606 inhabitants. Today 280 people live in Majewo, another source gives 671 inhabitants.
School system
The first school was the Royal Mercy School and was established in 1789. The first teacher was called Christlieb Block. Before the school building was erected in 1787, it was a walking school, which was held alternately on different farms in the village.
literature
- Friedrich Liedtke: Chronicle of the village Maibaum Kreis Elbing / Westpr. Truso-Verlag, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-88378-004-9 ( East German rural communities and parishes 13).