Olszewo (Olecko)

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Olszewo (Poland)
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Olszewo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Olecko
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 22 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '30 "  N , 22 ° 23' 32"  E
Residents : 141 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Cichy ↔ Duły / ext. 655
Doliwy / ext. 655 - Jurki → Olszewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Olszewo ( German  Olschöwen , 1933 to 1945 Erlental ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which is part of the urban and rural community of Olecko ( Marggrabowa , colloquially also: Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg ) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Olszewo is located on the north bank of the Großer Olschöwener See (1933 to 1945 Großer Erlentaler See , Jezioro Olszewskie in Polish ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, nine kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko .

history

Which at the time Lipumpsken after 1785 Ollschöwen and until 1933 Olschöwen called village was founded 1563rd

On May 27, 1874, Olschöwen became the district village, giving its name to the district , which - renamed "Erlental District" on February 22, 1934 - existed until 1945 and became the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to. 500 inhabitants were registered in Olschöwen in 1910.

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, 385 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On December 15, 1933, Olschöwen was renamed "Erlental" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population in that year was 471 and was 431 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 thus a village in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko ( Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg ) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

District of Olschöwen / Erlental (1874–1945)

Between 1874 and 1945 five villages belonged to the Olschöwen district (from 1934: "Erlental district"):

Surname Change name (1938 to 1945) Polish name
Dopken Markgrafsfelde Dobki
Dullen Duły
Gordeyken Gordeiken Gordejki
Jaschken Jesken Jaśki
Olschöwen (from 1933 :)
Erlental		 Olszewo

Religions

Until 1945, Olschöwen resp. Erlental parish in the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of the district town in the Diocese of Warmia .

The Catholic church members today are still oriented towards the district town, which now belongs to the diocese Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical church members living in Olszewo visit the churches in Ełk or Gołdap , both of which belong to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Olszewo is located north of the voivodship road DW 655 and can be reached from there via Duły ( Dullen ) or Doliwy ( Doliwen , 1938 to 1945 Teichwalde ).

Until 1945, Doliwy was the nearest train station and was on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg ( Polish: Kruklanki – Olecko ) line, which was no longer used after the end of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 848
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Erlental
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Olschöwen / Erlental district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  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. 65
  7. ↑ a b Olschöwen (district of Oletzko)
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484