Olszewo (Mikołajki)

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Olszewo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mikołajki
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '40 "  N , 21 ° 40' 36"  E
Residents : 377 (2011)
Postal code : 11-730
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - Mikołajki ↔ Orzysz - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Ext. 643 : ( Giżycko -) Wilkasy - Szymonka → Olszewo
Gorkło ↔ Grabówka - Chmielewo
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (not in operation)
Next international airport : Allenstein



Olszewo ( German  Olschewen , 1938 to 1945 Erlenau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Mikołajki ( German  Nikolaiken ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Olszewo is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship near the border between Powiat Mrągowski and Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), 25 kilometers east of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

history

The village once called Zawadden , after 1540 Ollschewen , after 1818 Olszewen and until 1938 Olschewen was founded in 1540. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established Lucknainen district ( Łuknajno in Polish ), which belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (1905 to 1945: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Olschewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Olschewen, 340 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while no votes were cast for Poland.

On August 24, 1932, the district was renamed, now named Olschewen. After Olschewen was renamed "Erlenau" on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938 for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding places , the Olschewen district was also renamed "Erlenau district".

As a result of the war, Erlenau came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Olszewo”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such is part of the urban and rural municipality of Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1818 324
1839 379
1867 475
1885 541
1898 484
1905 442
1910 500
1933 605
1939 609
2011 377

District Olschewen / Erlenau (1932–1945)

From 1932 to 1945 the following places belonged to the district of Olschewen and Erlenau:

Surname Changed name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name
Buchenhagen
(until 1929: Grabowken) 		Grabówka
Diebowen Dommelhof Dybowo
Lucknainen Łuknajno
Olshevs Erlenau Olszewo

church

Of the 442 inhabitants of Olschewen in 1905, 428 were Protestant and 14 were Catholic. Olschewen resp. Until 1945 Erlenau was parish in the Protestant Church of Schimonken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and also in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Olszewo belongs to the Protestant parish Mikołajki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish Woźnice in the diocese of Ełk in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Street

Olszewo is conveniently located on the major Polish west-east artery of Landesstraße 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ), which connects three voivodships and leads to the Polish-Lithuanian border . In town, the voivodship road 643 coming from Wilkasy (Willkassen , 1938 to 1945 Wolfsee) near Giżycko (Lötzen) ends . Olszewo is connected to the northern and southern hinterland via secondary roads.

rail

When the Sensburg - Arys section of the later Czerwonka – Ełk (Rothfließ – Lyck) railway was opened on October 2, 1911 , Olschewen was given a train station. Renamed "Erlenau (Ostpr.)" In 1938 and "Olszewo" in 1945, the stop existed until 2009, when rail traffic on the no longer profitable route was discontinued.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 848
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Erlenau
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Lucknainen district, Olschewen / Erlenau
  4. ↑ 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. 114
  5. ↑ a b c Olschwen (district Sensburg) at GenWiki
  6. ^ Wieś Olszewo w liczbach
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 501