Osowo (Gołdap)

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Osowo (Poland)
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Osowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 22 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '54 "  N , 22 ° 16' 34"  E
Residents : 35 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-507
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Marcinowo / ext. 650 → Osowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Osowo ( German  Ossöwen , 1938 to 1945 Ossau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which is part of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district .

Geographical location

Osowo is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the western slope of the Seesker Höhe (Polish: Wzgórza Szeskie), nine kilometers south of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) .

history

The small town, called Ossöwen until 1938, had different forms of name over the years: Oszewen (after 1736), Oschewen (after 1763) and Ossewen (after 1785). Before 1945 it consisted of a few scattered small farms. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established Grabowen District (Polish: Grabowo), which - renamed "Arnswald District" in 1939 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 56 registered residents in Ossöwen. Their number decreased to 48 by 1933 and was 42 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Ossöwen received the name "Ossau" in the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign . As a result of the war, the village came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and has been called "Osowo" since then. Today it is with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the city ​​and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , until 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The majority Protestant population of Ossöwen was parish until 1945 in the parish of the churches in Goldap in the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholic church members were oriented towards the parish church in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945 lives in Osowo a predominantly Catholic population, which is now the newly established parish in Grabowo in the deanery Gołdap within the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland belongs. Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Gołdap , a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Osowo is located east of the Polish voivodship road DW 650 (former German Reichsstraße 136 ) and can be reached via a cul-de-sac from Marcinowo (Marczinowen , 1938 to 1945 Martinsdorf) . The next train station was Grabowen until 1945 (1938 to 1945: Arnswald, Polish: Grabowo) on the Angerburg – Goldap railway line , which was not put back into operation after the Second World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Ossau
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabowen / Arnswald district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 478