Milewo
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Ełk | ||
| Gmina : | Kalinowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 54 ' N , 22 ° 43' E | ||
| Residents : | |||
| Postal code : | 19-314 | ||
| License plate : | NEL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ext. 661 : Kalinowo ↔ Cimochy | ||
| Janówka - Turowo → Milewo | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Milewo ( German Millewen , 1938 to 1945 Millau ) is a village belonging to the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen) in north-eastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).
Geographical location
The village is located four kilometers northeast of Kalinowo (German: Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen ) on the voivodship road DW 661 leading via Maże (Maaschen , 1938 to 1945 Maschen) to Cimochy (Groß Czymochen , 1938 to 1945 Reuss) . Between Maże and Milewo there is one of the highest peaks in the Ełk County, 186.3 meters high.
history
The place Millewen was first mentioned in a document at the end of the 15th century.
In 1656 Millewen was largely destroyed by the invasion of the Tatars, allied with Poland .
On May 27, 1874, as part of a Prussian community reform, a new district of Wiersbowen (1932 to 1938: Wierzbowen, 1938 to 1945: Waldwerder, Polish : Wierzbowo ) was formed, which, in addition to Millewen, includes the communities of Groß Czymochen, Kiehlen, Sanien, Soczien, Thurowen and Wiersbowen and the manor district Czymochen included.
On December 1, 1910, a total of 611 inhabitants were registered in Millewen.
December 1915 Millewen was connected with its own train station to the Lycker Kleinbahnen , which ran between the district town of Lyck and Thurowen (Polish: Turowo ) (until 1997).
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Millewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Millewen, 440 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.
In 1933 Millewen was reclassified from the Wiersbowen district to the Kallinowen district .
In 1933 there were 598 inhabitants in Millewen.
Millewen was renamed to Millau on June 3, 1938 in the course of the massive Germanization of place names of Masurian, Polish or Lithuanian origin .
In 1939 Millau only had 512 inhabitants.
Between May and the end of 1943, the 1st Cossack Division was set up in Millau under the command of General Helmuth von Pannwitz . This cavalry division consisted mainly of defected or captured Cossacks and came under the circumstances. a. in Yugoslavia in the fight against partisans.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Millau , which was part of the German Empire ( East Prussia ) , fell to Poland. The resident German population, if they had not fled, was largely expelled or resettled after 1945 and, in addition to the traditional Masurian minority, replaced by new citizens from other parts of Poland. The place Millau was renamed in the Polish spelling of the historical place name in "Milewo" and is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) within the Gmina Kalinowo.
From 1975 to 1998 Milewo belonged to what was then the Suwałki Voivodeship , then in 1999 it joined the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
Until 1945 Millewen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kallinowen in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Prawdzisken (1934 to 1945: Reiffenrode) in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Milewo belongs to the Catholic parish Kalinowo in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish in the town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 784
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Wiersbowen / Wierzbowen / Waldwerder district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
- ↑ 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. 85
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Kallinowen / Dreimühlen district
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Sobina.net, war - The war reached Otto Sobina retrieved on March 6, 2015
- ↑ Gmina Kalinowo
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493
- ^ Parafia Kalinowo