Turowo (Pisz)

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Turowo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 32 '  N , 21 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '46 "  N , 21 ° 54' 18"  E
Residents : 320 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 63 - Turowo Duże ↔ Zawady / Kałęczyn - DK 63
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Turowo [ tuˈrɔvɔ ] ( German  Turowen , 1938 to 1945 Turau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural community Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Turowo is located in the east-south of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , two kilometers northeast of the similarly named village Turowo Duże ( German  Rakowken , 1938 to 1945 Sernau , until 2005 Polish Rakówko ). The district town of Pisz is 13 kilometers to the north-west.

history

The order 1452 feldt Tomken after 1452 Thurenn to 1540 Thurowo after 1579 Thurouen , after 1898 Thurowen and until 1938 Turowen called village was in 1429 by the Teutonic Order as departmental traffic with 50 hooves after kölmischem law established.

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 he was incorporated into the Gehsen district.

358 inhabitants were reported in 1910 in Turowen, in 1933 there were already 364 (officially confirmed on 16 July) On June 3, 1938 Turowen was foreign-sounding place names in "Turau" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 305 in 1939.

As a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 . So also Turau, which received the Polish form of name "Turowo". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the city and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . Turowo had a total of 320 inhabitants in 2011.

Religions

Before 1945 Turowen was parish in the Evangelical Church Gehsen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Turowo belongs to the Jeże parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Pisz, now in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Turowen became a school town in 1737.

traffic

Turowo is located east of the national road 63 and can be reached from there north of Jeże on a side road in the direction of Zawady (Sawadden , Ottenberge 1938 to 1945 ) or Kałęczyn (Kallenzinnen , Dreifelde 1938 to 1945 ) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1303
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Turau
  3. ↑ a b c Thurowen / Turowen - Turau at family research Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Gehsen
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  8. ^ Turowo at Polska w liczbach
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491