Kwitajny

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Kwitajny
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Kwitajny (Poland)
Kwitajny
Kwitajny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Elbląg
Gmina : Pasłęk
Geographic location : 54 ° 1 '  N , 19 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '5 "  N , 19 ° 48' 13"  E
Residents : 253
Telephone code : (+48) 55
License plate : NEB
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 527 : Dzierzgoń - Pasłęk ↔ Morąg - Olsztyn
Next international airport : Danzig



Kwitajny (German Quittainen ) is a place in the municipality of Pasłęk , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , in northern Poland .

Geographical location

The place is about ten kilometers east of Pasłęk (Prussian Holland), 28 kilometers east of Elbląg (Elbing) and 53 kilometers northwest of Olsztyn (Allenstein) in a fertile valley, which is surrounded by hills, forests and groves.

history

Before the end of World War II in 1945, the area belonged to East Prussia . The district of Quittainen in the Prussian Holland district then comprised the six municipalities of Groß Thierbach, Lägs, Mäken, Nauten, Pergusen and Quittainen.

The localities large and small Quittainen were mentioned on April 8, 1431 in a hand-held celebration that the Elbingen order commander Konrad von Beldersheim had notarized in Prussian Holland . According to one in Königsberg i. . Pr issued Tangible was young and Klain Qittainen on 4 December 1557 by Duke Albrecht of Prussia along with numerous other goods for faithful service of Anton bark been left; In another hand-held festival held in Königsberg on April 17, 1573, this possession was confirmed to the Borke family by Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia . In the period from 1681 to 1695, the Elector Brandenburg General Field Marshal Baron Georg von Derfflinger (* 1606, † 1695) liege lord of the Quittainen estates. After his death, the goods came to the Electoral Brandenburg General Field Marshal Johann Albrecht von Barfuß , who left them to his son Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Barfuß; this came from his second marriage with Eleonore von Dönhoff .

In 1710 Quittainen was hit by the plague that broke out in East Prussia and killed numerous young and old.

In the period 1714–1719, Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Barfuß had a new church built in the center of the village not far from the castle. This was used alternately by both the Evangelical Reformed and the Evangelical Lutheran congregation. For the new building he had procured an organ as well as the tower clock and the bell himself.

In the 19th century, Quittainen had its own post office. The area was settled by Poles and incorporated into the People's Republic of Poland.

Quittainen Castle

Quittainen Castle, May 2007

The castle was built by order of Christoph Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien according to plans by Jean de Bodt around 1700, whereby only one floor of the main building and a side wing were realized from these plans.

Schloss and Gut Quittainen moved from the Barfus family to Philipp Otto Graf Dönhoff in 1742 . This expanded the property by purchasing the goods Schönau-Gehlfeldt, Nauten and Samrodt. In Quittainen he had the school house expanded.

The castle was inhabited by Count Christoph Dönhoff (1906-1992), who had been a diplomat , until 1944 . His sister, the later well-known publicist Marion Countess Dönhoff , lived in the rent office opposite . She ran the farm during the war years. She began her flight west from here in January 1945. In a letter to the Countess, a resident of Quittainen reported on the fate of the villagers and estate residents who stayed behind: Ten men, six women and children were shot and fourteen residents were deported to the Soviet Union.

The castle building was renovated around 1985 and then used as an administration and residential building. The former rent office fell into disrepair.

  • Quittainen Castle, mid-19th century

  • Rent Office 2007

  • Bridge to palace and manor 2007

  • Gutskirche 2007

literature

  • Marion Countess Dönhoff : Names that nobody mentions anymore. East Prussia - People and History , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009. ISBN 978-3-499-62477-3 .
  • HF Elsner: Some historical news from the Evangel. Reformed and Simultaneous Churches at Samrodt and Quittainen in the East Prussian Oberland, along with a word about Union . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, pp. 225-289.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Stephan: The hand festivals of the Elbinger Commandery Book . In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 54, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 110.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Sahm : History of the plague in East Prussia . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1905, p. 117.
  3. ^ A b H. F. Elsner: Some historical news from the Evangel. Reformed and Simultaneous Churches at Samrodt and Quittainen in the East Prussian Oberland, along with a word about Union . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 18, Königsberg 1837, p. 237 ff.
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Königsberg . Issue 14 of April 4, 1872, pp. 85-86, No. 166.
  5. ↑ Helmut Sieber : Palaces and manors in East and West Prussia . Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1958, p.  52-53 .
  6. ↑ Marion Countess Dönhoff: Names that nobody mentions anymore . Eugen Diederichs, 3rd edition Munich 1991, pp. 74 ff. ISBN 3-424-00977-6

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