Olszyny (Szczytno)

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Olszyny
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Olszyny (Poland)
Olszyny
Olszyny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '26 "  N , 21 ° 6' 45"  E
Residents : 923 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 53 : Olsztyn - Szczytno ↔ Jeruty - Rozogi - Myszyniec - Ostrołęka
Gawrzyjałki - Niedźwiedzie → Olszyny
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Olszyny ( German  Olschienen , 1938 to 1945 Ebendorf (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Olszyny is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ). The river Radostówka ( western canal until 1945 ) rises in the swampy meadows east of the village , which - originally a drainage channel - flows into the Jerutka river (eastern canal ) a little later .

Apartment houses in Olszyny

history

Olschienen was 1,687 as Schatulldorf based on silvicultural ground: on March 25 of that year was Friedrich bacon from Piassutten (1938-1945 lakes Walde , Polish Piasutno by) Tangible the job "in Beritt the wilderness maker Willudovius in Corpeller Forst (country) auszuroden, to make arable, to create a new village and to occupy the same with crew ... ". In 1756 the residents complained of flooding and asked for a flood to be created. In 1787 the financial circumstances of the Olschien family were considered "badly made".

In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established district of Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . The connection of Olschienen to the Ortelsburg – Johannisburg railway line in 1884 and the later expansion of the Olschienen– Gawrzialken road (1938 to 1945 Wilhelmsthal , Gawrzyjałki in Polish ) brought great economic progress, as did the deepening of the West Canal ( Radostówka in Polish ) in 1938.

The population of Olschienens in 1910 was 868. It rose to 880 by 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Olschienen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Olschienen, 680 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938, Olschienen was renamed "Ebendorf (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population was 861 in 1939.

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Ebendorf was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Olszyny" and is today - as the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) - a village in the rural community of Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship. Masuria belonging. In 2011 Olszyny had 923 inhabitants.

Agricultural Museum

Agricultural Museum in Olszyny

Since 2002 there has been an agricultural museum in Olszyny (in Polish: Muzeum Rolnicze ), which was founded by Zygmunt Rzap . Agricultural implements and machines are shown, the oldest part of which dates from the 17th century.

church

Until 1945, Olschienen resp. Ebendorf in the Evangelical Church of Klein Jerutten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , also parish in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Olszyny belongs to the Protestant parish in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish in Jerutki in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

There was a village school in Olschienen where three classes were taught. In 1926/27 it received a new building.

traffic

Stork's nest in the Olszyny through-town road 53

Streets

Olszyny is conveniently located on the Polish national road 53 (former German Reichsstraße 134 ) which leads from Olsztyn (Allenstein) through the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to Ostrołęka in the Masovian Voivodeship . The road, which was expanded in 1922, connects Olszyny with the southern neighboring region and the villages of Niedźwiedzie (Bärenbruch ) and Gawrzyjałki (Gawrzialken , 1938 to 1945 Wilhelmsthal ).

rails

On August 15, 1884, Olschienen was a railway station on the newly built Ortelsburg – Johannisburg section of today's Olsztyn – Ełk railway . The former train station and today's breakpoint is on the road to Gawrzyjałki.

Web links

Commons : Olszyny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Olszyny w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 859
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Ebendorf (Ostpr.)
  4. ↑ a b c d Olschienen / Ebendorf at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Klein Jerutten 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. ↑ The Agricultural Museum in Olszyny (Polish)
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496