Olszewo (Prostki)

Olszewo
	Olszewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '55 "  N , 22 ° 14' 18"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1921N: Rakowo Małe / 1864N ↔ Rożyńsk Wielki / 1678N– Wojtele / 1680N
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Olszewo ( German  Olschewen , 1938 to 1945 Kronfelde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Olszewo is located in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 30 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) and 15 kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Ełk ( Lyck in German ).  

history

The small village called Olschöwen after 1898 and Olschewen until 1938 was founded in 1506.

From 1874 to 1945, it belonged to the District Monethen (Polish Monety ) in the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

159 inhabitants were registered in Olschewen in 1910, in 1933 there were 152.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Olschöwen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Olschöwen, 120 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Olschewen was foreign-sounding place names in "Kronfelde" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The number of residents was only 123 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Olszewo”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Prostki (rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945, Olschewen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Groß Rosinsko (1938 to 1945 Großrosen , Polish: Rożyńsk Wielki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg (Polish: Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Olszewo belongs to the parish in Rożyńsk Wielki in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parishes of Biała Piska (Bialla , Gehlenburg from 1938 to 1945 ) and Ełk (Lyck) , both sub- parishes of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Olszewo is on the side road 1921N, which connects Rakowo Małe (Köllmisch Rakowen , 1938 to 1945 Köllmisch Rakau) with Rożyńsk Wielki (Groß Rosinsko , 1938 to 1945 Großrosen) and Wojtele (Woytellen , 1938 to 1945 Woiten) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 848
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kronfelde
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Monethen District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
5. ^ ^{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). 
6. ↑ 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. 76
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 491