Olszewki

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Olszewki
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Olszewki (Poland)
Olszewki
Olszewki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Dźwierzuty
Geographic location : 53 ° 40 ′  N , 21 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 22 "  N , 20 ° 59 ′ 49"  E
Residents : 365 (2011)
Postal code : 12-120
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Dźwierzuty / DK 57 ↔ Jabłonka / ext. 600
Targowo → Olszewki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Olszewki ( German  Olschöwken , 1938 to 1945 Kornau (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Dźwierzuty (rural community Mensguth ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Olszewki loves in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , twelve kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

The place originally called Olschaw and after 1785 Olschowken belonged to the noble estates that were created around 1400 by Philipp von Wildenau . In 1426 it belonged to the possessions of the knight Niclos von Tergowitz . In 1438 it was named as Zinsdorf. In the 17th century, the Lehwaldt family was wealthy in Olschöwken.

A significant consequence of the separation was the expansion of the cultivation area when extensive wasteland areas of the district could be closed.

1874 Olschöwken was in the newly built office district Jablonken ( Polish Jabłonka integrated), who - in 1938 renamed "District Wildenau" - existed until 1945 and the East Prussian district Szczytno belonged.

In 1910 Olschöwken had 626 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 621. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Olschöwken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or connection to Poland. In Olschöwken, 397 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Mensguth-Kornau soil drainage cooperative created an area of ​​250 hectares of valuable arable and meadow land. The associated economic upswing was combined with lively construction activity, so that the village was given a modern look through numerous new buildings.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938, Olschöwken was renamed "Kornau (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign sounding place names. The number of inhabitants was 574 in 1939.

In 1945 the village was the consequences of war throughout the southern East Prussia to Poland transferred. It received the Polish form of the name "Olszewki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the rural community Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Olschöwken resp. Kornau was parish up to 1945 in the Protestant Church Theerwisch ( Polish Targowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Dźwierzuty (Mensguth, village) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Olszewki belongs to the Catholic parish church of Targowo in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia , as well as to the Evangelical Church of Dźwierzuty , a branch church of the Pasym parish (Passenheim) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The school in Olschöwken was founded by King Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1939 it had two classes. In 1934 a new teacher's house was built.

traffic

Olszewki is on a side road that leads from Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) to Jabłonka ( Jablonken , 1938 to 1945 Wildenau) and connects the Polish state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) with the voivodship road 600 . There is also a road connection between Targowo (Theerwisch) and Olszewki.

Olszewki no longer has any connection to the railroad . In 1909, Olschöwken became a station on the Rothfließ – Ortelsburg railway line . The name changed between 1938 and 1945 in "Kornau (East Prussia)", 1945 to 1947 in "Olszewka Mazurska" and from 1947 in "Olszewki Mazurskie". Passenger traffic on the railway line was discontinued in 1992 and freight traffic in 2002. The railway systems will be dismantled since 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieś Olszewki w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 848
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kornau (Ostpr.)
  4. ↑ a b c Kornau (Olschöwken) at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Jablonken / Wildenau district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ 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. 97
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497