Rowy (Barciany)

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Rowy (Poland)
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Rowy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 8 '  N , 21 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '18 "  N , 21 ° 21' 56"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-410 Szaty Wielkie
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Skierki / ext. 591 → Rowy
Szaty Wielkie ↔ Moruny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Rowy ( German  Rawlack ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Rowy is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers north of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

The small town called Rablack before 1871 originally only consisted of a few small farms. In 1785 the place is mentioned as a noble farming village with nine fireplaces. In 1874 came the rural community Rawlack to the recently completed District Wehlack ( Polish Skierki ) of the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belongs. Rawlack had 73 inhabitants in 1820, 38 in 1885, 24 in 1924, and only 27 in 1910.

On April 1, 1930, the rural community Rawlack lost its independence and was incorporated into Wehlack ( Skierki ).

In 1945, as a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland . This also affected Rawlack, which received the Polish form of the name "Rowy". Today it is a "Przysiółek wsi Szaty Wielkie" (a hamlet of the village Szaty Wielkie (large shade) ) within the rural community Barciany (Barten) in kętrzyn county (county Rastenburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

church

Until 1945 Rawlack was parish in the Protestant church of Wenden in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Kętrzyn in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Rowy belongs on the Catholic side to the parish Winda in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Rowy can be reached via a spur road that branches off at Skierki (Wenden) from Voiwodschaftsstraße 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ). A side road from Szaty Wielkie (Groß Schatten) to Moruny (Maraunen) leads through Rowy.

There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1227
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rawlack
  3. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Wehlack district
  4. ↑ a b Rawlack at GenWiki
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474