Smolajny

Smolajny
	Smolajny
	Smolajny
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olsztyn
Gmina :	Dobre Miasto
Geographic location :	54 ° 2 ' N , 20 ° 24' E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '42 " N , 20 ° 24' 23" E
Residents :	520 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NOL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK51 Dobre Miasto - Lidzbark Warmiński
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Smolajny ( German Schmolainen ) is a village in the municipality Dobre Miasto ( Guttstadt ) in Olsztyn County ( Olsztyn district ) in the Polish province Warmia-Mazury .

Geographical location

The village is located in historic East Prussia , on the Alley , about five kilometers north of Guttstadt ( Dobre Miasto ), 18 kilometers southwest of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 28 kilometers north of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).

history

Schmolainen (lower edge of the picture, right half of the picture), southeast of Wormditt and southwest of Heilsberg , on a map from 1910.

The village was founded in 1290 by Bishop Heinrich I. Fleming and in the 15th century it came into the possession of the Bishops of Warmia , who spent their summer holidays there. In the wars of 1414 , 1454 , 1519–1521 and 1709 it was destroyed and rebuilt again and again. The current building was built between 1741 and 1746 under Bishop Adam Stanislaus Grabowski .

In 1945 Schmolainen belonged to the district of Heilsberg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the province of East Prussia in Prussia .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in early 1945 . In the summer of 1945 Schmolainen was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, along with the southern half of East Prussia .

Population development

year	Residents	Remarks
1816	276
1852	587	397 of them in the village and 190 on the farm
1858	636	440 of them in the village (69 Protestants and 371 Catholics), 184 on the outskirts (46 Protestants and 138 Catholics) and twelve in the castle (one Protestant and eleven Catholics)
1871	640
1910	475	365 of them in the village, 97 on the Vorwerk and 13 in the castle.
1933	430
1939	716
2011	520

Episcopal summer residence

In the village is the summer palace of the Bishops of Warmia, which was built between 1741 and 1746 under Bishop Adam Stanislaus Grabowski and which became a popular place of residence for his successors. Ignacy Krasicki , Bishop of Warmia and Primate of Poland, had the gate tower built in 1765 and a landscape park laid out after 1782.

The castle is a two-story, single-wing building with central risers on the front and garden side. It is crowned by a hipped roof. The risalites have triangular gables with a cartouche of the builder's coat of arms . Inside, barrel vaults have been preserved on the ground floor and stucco ceilings in some rooms on the upper floor . After the Second World War , the palace complex was used by a state estate. During this time, the arrangement of the rooms was changed through renovations and the historical building fabric was badly affected. Since the early 1970s, the castle has housed an agricultural school.