Orłowo (Biała Piska)

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Orłowo
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Orłowo (Poland)
Orłowo
Orłowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 38 '  N , 21 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '1 "  N , 21 ° 58' 59"  E
Residents : 113 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Kaliszki / DK 58 ↔ Ruda / Giętkie
Zabielne → Orłowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Orłowo ( German  Orlowen , 1938 to 1945 Siegmunden ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Orłowo is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, twelve kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village Orlowen, called Orloffen around 1540 and Orlowo around 1579 , was founded in 1448 by the Teutonic Knight Order as a freehold with 30 hooves under Magdeburg law .

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established district of Ruhden .

222 inhabitants were registered in Orloven in 1910. In 1933 the number was 225. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Orlowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Orlowen, 160 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938 Orlowen was foreign-sounding place names in "victory Munden" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . In 1939 the population was 211.

As a result of the war, the village was transferred to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name "Orłowo". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of the city and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then the Voivodeship Warmia Masuria belonging. In 2011 Orłowo had 113 inhabitants.

Religions

Until 1945 Orlowen resp. Siegmunden parish into the Protestant Church of Bialla in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and into the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Orłowo belongs to the Catholic parish Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Evangelical-wide, the residents of the parish also orientate themselves in Biała Piska, a branch parish of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Orlowen became a school town in 1737.

traffic

Orłowo is located on a side road that branches off from state road 58 at Kaliszki (Kallischken , 1938 to 1945 Flockau) and leads to Ruda (Ruhden) or Giętkie (Gentken) . There is also an overland connection from Zabielne (Sabielnen , 1938 to 1945 Freundlingen) to Orłowo.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 872
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Siegmunden
  3. ↑ a b c d Orlowen / Siegmunden in family research Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ruhden district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  9. ^ Wieś Orłowo w liczbach