Olszewo Węgorzewskie

Olszewo Węgorzewskie
	Olszewo Węgorzewskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Budry
Geographic location :	54 ° 18 '  N , 21 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '14 "  N , 21 ° 45' 13"  E
Residents :	164 (2006)
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pawłowo - Wężówko ↔ Góry
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Olszewo Węgorzewskie ( German  Olschöwen , 1938 to 1945 Kanitz ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural municipality of Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Olszewo Węgorzewskie is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, ten kilometers north of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The village called Ollschöwen after 1785 , then Olschöwen until 1938 , was opened on October 12, 1562 on the occasion of the prescription of 60 hooves a. a. Mentioned for the first time at the Kaufschulzen Mathes Olschofski . On May 6, 1874 was office Village and its name to the District , which - as of January 27, 1939 renamed "District Kanitz" - to 1945 and county Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 a total of 516 inhabitants were registered in Olschöwen with the residential areas Bahnhof and Petersberg ( Polish: Piotrówko ). Their number rose to 543 by 1925 and decreased to 528 by 1933 and to 509 by 1939.

For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names, Olschöwen was renamed "Kanitz" on June 3, 1938. Seven years later, the place came in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland and is called since then "Olszewo Wegorzewskie".

Today the village has 164 inhabitants and is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ), which includes the neighboring towns of Maryszki (Marienwalde) , Mniszki (Nonnenberg) and Piotrówko (Petersberg) , and part of the rural community of Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 in the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then in the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

District of Olschöwen / Kanitz (1874–1945)

The Olschöwen and Kanitz districts, which existed between 1874 and 1945, were incorporated:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Olschöwen	Kanitz	Olszewo Węgorzewo
Wensowken	Wensen	Wężówko
from 1876: Alt Gurren		Stare Góry	previously: Lingwarowen district , incorporated into Gurren from 1927
from 1876: New cooing		Nowe Góry	previously: Lingwarowen district, incorporated into Gurren from 1927
from 1876: cooing		Góry	before: Lingwarowen district

Religions

Church in Olszewo Węgorzewskie (Olschöwen / Kanitz)

Church building

→ Main article : Church of Exaltation of the Cross (Olszewo Węgorzewskie)

The church in Olschöwen resp. Kanitz was one of the 14 East Prussian anniversary churches and was inaugurated as a Protestant church on December 19, 1905 after a year and a half of construction . It is a brick building on a field stone foundation with an attached side tower in architectural unity with the gable of the nave. After 1945, the church became a Roman Catholic parish church as the "Exaltation of the Cross" .

Parish

Evangelical

It was not until June 1, 1897, that Olschöwen became a Protestant church village in which the services had to be held in a rented apartment or in the school. Until 1945, the nine villages belonged comprehensive parish to parish district Angerburg in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . Church life collapsed due to the flight and displacement of the local population . The few Protestant church members living in Olszewo today now belong to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Until 1945, the few Catholic residents of Olschöwen resp. Kanitz 'oriented towards Angerburg. Now the Catholics who live here in large numbers use the once Protestant church on site as their parish church . A parish was established here, which belongs to the deanery Węgorzewo in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

A school was founded in Olschöwen in 1741. It was laid out in two classes. The number of pupils fell from 110 (1853) to 79 (1928), and then amounted to 91 in 1935. The last school building was built in 1900 from red brick .

traffic

Olszewo Węgorzewskie is a bit out of the way in terms of traffic and only three kilometers south of the Polish-Russian border . From Pawłowo (Paulswalde) Olszewo can be reached via a side road that leads to the border area at Góry (Gurren) .

Between 1914 and 1945, Olschöwen (Kanitz) was a train station on the Angerburg – Gumbinnen line . The station was one kilometer southeast of the village on the road to Pawłowo. The railway line was abandoned in 1945.

Web links

Commons : Olszewo Węgorzewskie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 848
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kanitz
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kanitz (Olschöwen)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Olschöwen / Kanitz district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 88
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477
9. ↑ Parafia Olszewo Węgorzewo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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.