Powałczyn

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Powałczyn
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Powałczyn (Poland)
Powałczyn
Powałczyn
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 53 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '30 "  N , 21 ° 10' 55"  E
Residents : 60 (2011)
Postal code : 12-140
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Świętajno - Piasutno ↔ ( DK 58 )
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Powałczyn ( German  Powalczin , 1938 to 1945 Schönhöhe (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Ostpr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Powałczyn located north of the Deep Sea ( Polish Jezioro nożyce ) in the southern center of the Warmia and Mazury , 15 kilometers northeast of the county seat Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

history

The certificate issued on June 15, 1765 Tangible Frederick the Great was Powaltzin (after 1785 Powalzin , after 1820 Powalcin ) founded as Schatulldorf. On January 10, 1861, the small town of Opukelmühle, founded on June 10, 1753, was incorporated into Powalcin.

In 1874 Powalczin was included in the newly established district of Ratzeburg (Polish Racibórz ), which until 1945 belonged to the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . Powalczin counted 191 inhabitants in 1910, in 1933 there were 165.

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 Powalczin, 153 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Powalczin was renamed to "Schönhöhe (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population was 151 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Schönhöhe came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . The small village was given the Polish form of name "Powałczyn" and is now a place in the Gmina Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the Szczycieński powiat ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated. In 2011 the number of inhabitants was 60.

church

Until 1945 Powalczin resp. Schönhöhe in the Evangelical Church of Klein Jerutten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Powałczyn belongs on the Catholic side to the St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Jerutki in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , on the Protestant side to the Szczytno parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The village school founded in the age of Frederick the Great was given a school building in the 1880s, which was expanded and modernized in 1935.

traffic

Powałczyn is located on a side road that leads from Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Ostpr.) ) Via Piasutno (Piassutten , 1938 to 1945 Seenwalde ) to the state road 58 . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Historical recordings from Powalczin / Schönhöhe:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Powałczyn w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 (Polish), p. 958
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (20059): Schönhöhe
  4. ↑ a b c Powalczin / Schönhöhe at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Ratzeburg
  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. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  10. ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF