Pravdowo

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Pravdowo
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Prawdowo (Poland)
Pravdowo
Pravdowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mikołajki
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 21 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '3 "  N , 21 ° 33' 5"  E
Residents : 317 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-730
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo ↔ Mikołajki - Ełk - Augustów –Ogroniki (Sejny)
Jora Wielka - Cudnochy - Faszcze - Cimowo → Prawdowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Prawdowo (German Prawdowen , 1929 to 1945 Wahrendorf ) is a village and Sołectwo in the urban and rural community Mikołajki ( German  Nikolaiken ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .

Geographical location

Prawdowo is located in the Masurian Lake District on the Baltic ridge . Characteristic for the landscape in this area are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests. The Johannisburger Heide begins not far south of Prawdowo . To the north of Prawdowo lies the Tałtysee and southeast of the Spirdingsee , with 114 km² the largest lake in the Masurian Lake District and the largest lake in Poland.

history

Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians . After Christianization by the Teutonic Order , the area belonged to the Teutonic Order state .

The village and estate Pradowen was founded in 1623, it was in the Duchy of Prussia and after 1701 was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia . From spring 1818 part of the district of Sensburg , first in the administrative district of Gumbinnen ( province of Prussia ) and from 1905 in the administrative district of Allenstein .

In April 1874, the administrative district Schaden ( Polish Stare Sady ) was formed with the rural community Prawdowen. In 1910 there were 339 inhabitants registered in Pradowen. Their number rose to 410 by 1933 and amounted to 400 in 1939,

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Prawdowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Prawdowen, 300 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland received no votes.

The place name Prawdowen was changed to Wahrendorf on June 15, 1929 .

During the East Prussian operation , Wahrendorf was captured by the Red Army on January 26, 1945 and placed under the Soviet command. At the end of the war , Wahrendorf became part of Poland and received the Polish form of the name “Prawdowo”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). From 1975 to 1998 the village was in the Suwałki Voivodeship and from 1999 in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 Prawdowo had 317 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Prawdowen (Wahrendorf) was parish in the Evangelical parish church Nikolaiken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and also in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Prawdowo not only belongs to the Evangelical Church in Mikołajki - now in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland - but also to the Catholic parish in Mikołajki, which is assigned to the Ełk diocese in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Prawdowo is two kilometers west of Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) and 18 kilometers southeast of the district town of Mrągowo (Sensburg) .

The Polish state road 16 (former German state road 127 ) runs through Prawdowo and runs through three voivodships and ends at the Polish-Lithuanian border. A secondary road provides a connection to the villages north of Prawdowo.

The railway line Czerwonka - Ełk (Rothfließ - Lyck) , which runs south of Prawdowo and whose nearest station was Mikołajki, was closed in 2009 in the section Mrągowo - Ełk.

Personalities

  • Horst Michalowski (born May 29, 1937 in Wahrendorf; † January 13, 2005 in Bad Zwischenahn), German writer and translator

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Prawdowo at GenWiki
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Damage. May 7, 2005, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ 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. 114
  7. ↑ Wieś Prawdowo w liczbach