Ostrowy (Wielbark)

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Ostrowy
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Ostrowy (Poland)
Ostrowy
Ostrowy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Wielbark
Geographic location : 53 ° 22 '  N , 21 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '42 "  N , 21 ° 5' 18"  E
Residents : 49 (2011)
Postal code : 12-160
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Olędry → Ostrowy
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Ostrowy ( German  Alt Werder ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Wielbark (urban and rural community Willenberg ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Ostrowy is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the immediate vicinity of the border with the Masovian Voivodeship , which formed the German-Polish border here until 1945. The district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ) is 24 kilometers north.

history

The former Old Werder (until before 1820 Werder - without any additions) was created in the course of the improvement measures to reclaim the Lattanabrucht ( Bagna Łatana in Polish ), which - after a long period of preparation - began in 1794. With express royal approval, the village was not laid out as a closed place, but the houses were built at a distance from each other so that the way to the meadows and pastures could be kept shorter. All buildings were finished by the turn of the century.

The small rural community Alt Werder in 1874, part of the administrative district United Lattana (Polish Latana Wielka ), which - until 1945 - 1938 "District Großheidenau" renamed East Prussian district Szczytno belonged.

In 1910, 85 residents were registered in Alt Werder. Their number was 76 in 1933 and 80 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Alt Werder, 56 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

With the whole of southern East Prussia , Alt Werder was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and was given the Polish form of the name "Ostrowy". Today the small village is a locality within the urban and rural municipality Wielbark (Willenberg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Ostrowy had 49 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945, Alt Werder was incorporated into the Protestant Church of Willenberg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and also into the Roman Catholic parish church of Groß Leschienen ( Lesiny Wielkie in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

The reference to Lesiny Wielkie still exists today on the part of the Catholic Church, whereby the parish now belongs to the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant residents of Ostrowy orientate themselves towards the church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The first school building took place in Werder in 1798.

traffic

Ostrowy is away from the traffic on a side road that leads from Olędry (Wagenfeld) into the village. There is no rail link.

personality

  • Johann Krischick , also: Krischik (1886-1958), German farmer and politician (DNVP), 1919-1932 member of the state parliament, had had his own farm in Alt Werder since 1913

Web links

Historical recordings from Alt Werder:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Ostrowy w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 888
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Alt Werder
  4. ↑ a b Alt Werder at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ 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. 93
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496