Sowiróg
| Sowiróg ( sunken village) |
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Pisz | ||
| Gmina : | Ruciane-Nida | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 34 ' N , 21 ° 39' E | ||
| Residents : | 0 | ||
Sowiróg (German Sowirog , 1934–1945 Loterswalde ) has been a deserted village in the urban and rural community of Ruciane-Nida ( German Rudczanny ) in the Powiat Piski since 1948 . It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in north-eastern Poland .
Geographical location
The forest village of Sowiróg was located in Masuria on the Baltic ridge in the middle of the Johannisburger Heide (Puszcza Piska) on the western bank of the Jezioro Nidzkie ( Lower Lake ). Pisz ( Johannisburg ) is twelve kilometers away in a northeastern direction.
The Sowiróg desert is hardly recognizable today. It can be reached on an impassable overland road that leads from Jaśkowo along the western bank of Jezioro Nidzkie to Zamordeje .
history
Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians ( Galinds ). After Christianization by the Teutonic Order , it belonged to the Teutonic Order and after 1525 to the Duchy of Prussia . The village of Sobiroch was founded as a forester's estate in 1563.
After the Congress of Vienna, which was created to February 1, 1818 District Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Province of Prussia .
In 1874 the district of Breitenheide was formed with the rural community of Sowirog.
Sowirog only became a school location after 1888. In 1910 Sowirog had 98 inhabitants, and in 1933 there were 151. The place name Sowirog was Germanized on May 7, 1934 in "Loterswalde" . In 1939 there were 169 inhabitants in Loterswalde.
During the East Prussian operation Loterswalde was captured by the Red Army in January 1945 and placed under the Soviet command. After the end of the war Loterswalde came to Poland and was again called Sowiróg. By 1948 all residents had left the place - since then it has been a desert.
church
Until 1945 Sowirog resp. Loterswalde parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia .
Sowirog literary scene
The writer Ernst Wiechert (he was on 18 May 1887 Mazury Kleinort born) lets his two-volume Bildungsroman The Jeromin children in and around Sowirog play. Only after the end of the war (1945/47) did he publish it:
The young Jons Ehrenreich Jeromin is the first from the Masurian forest village of Sowirog to attend secondary school and university. Wiechert describes his career as well as that of the village, which, despite its isolation, did not escape the upheavals of the 20th century. When Jons Jeromin turns down a promising medical career in the city and returns to Sowirog as a doctor for the poor, Wiechert's hope is fulfilled in him that people want to “bring justice to the field” ( Isaiah 32:16). But the residents of Sowirog are worried about a fateful future; the novel ends with a glimpse of the terrible ravages of war.
literature
- Günter Ludwig: Sowirog - The missing village . (on-line)
- Ernst Wiechert: The Jeromin Children . Volume I. Verlagshaus Würzburg - Rautenberg Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8003-3155-0 .
- Ernst Wiechert: The Jeromin Children . Volume II. Verlagshaus Würzburg - Rautenberg Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8003-3156-7 .
Web links
- Historical index of places: Sowirog, Loterswalde, Sowiróg
- Loterswalde - local information according to D. Lange
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Loterswalde
- ^ Rolf Jehke: District of Breitenheide. October 22, 2004, accessed February 8, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Sowirog / Loterswalde in family research Sczuka
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491