Wężewo (Kowale Oleckie)

Wężewo
	Wężewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 9 '  N , 22 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '39 "  N , 22 ° 19' 58"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 ↔ Cichy - Dunajek / ext. 655
	Nasuty - Golubie Wężewskie → Wężewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wężewo ( German  Wensöwen , 1938 to 1945 Eibenau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Wężewo is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and south of the Seesker Höhe ( Wzgórza Szeskie in Polish ), 17 kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

What was then Wensiffen was founded in 1562. On December 24th of the same year it was given as a fief by Duke Albrecht of Prussia , and in 1565 Kaspar von Nostiz received it from the same hand.

The village of Wensowen (before 1774) and Wensewen (before 1785) owned a large estate. The manor district became the district village on May 27, 1874, giving its name to a newly established district . Until 1914 he belonged to the Oletzko district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . Already on August 3, 1874 the rural community Fritzendorf (no longer existent) and the manor districts of Sydden (1938 to 1945: Sidden, Polish Żydy ) and Wensöwen merged to form the new manor district of Wensöwen-Sydden, which was already before 1881 in the "manor district of Wensöwen" ( without addition). Now only Wensöwen belonged to the district of the same name, which was then dissolved on May 30, 1914 and the village was reclassified to the district of Statzen ( Stacze in Polish ). Wensöwen belonged to him and was renamed "Eibenau" in 1938 until 1945.

Wężewo through the town

The number of inhabitants of Wensöwen grew steadily: in 1863 there were 160 inhabitants, in 1910 already 341, in 1933 already 560 and in 1939 almost the same as 532.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wensöwen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wensöwen, 224 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On March 17, 1923, the Wensöwen Manor was converted into a rural community .

As a result of the war, Wensöwen came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and has since borne the Polish form of the name "Wężewo". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and part of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Wensöwen District (1874–1914)

The district of Wensöwen, in which three localities were incorporated, existed for 40 years. Due to a restructuring, it was afterwards only a village, so that the administrative district was dissolved:

Surname	Name after 1938	Polish name	Remarks
Fritzendorf			Integrated into Wensöwen in 1874
Sydden	Sidden	Żydy	Integrated into Wensöwen in 1874
Wensöwen	Eibenau	Wężewo

church

Wensöwen resp. Eibenau was parish before 1945 in the Protestant parish of the Church of Czychen (1938 to 1945: Bolken, Polish Cichy ) in the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholic church members oriented themselves to Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg , Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic inhabitants of Wężewos belong to the newly established parish in Cichy , which maintains a branch church in Sokółki (Sokolken , Halldorf from 1938 to 1945 ) . She belongs to one of the two deaneries in Olecko in the diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents belong to the parish in Gołdap (Goldap) , a branch parish of Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wężewo is located at the intersection of several side streets, of which the connecting road from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) to Dunajek (Duneyken , 1938 to 1945 Duneiken) is the most important, as it also connects the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße) 132 ) with the voivodship street DW 655 . A side road also leads from Nasuty (Nossuten) to here, and the neighboring town of Żydy (Sydden , 1938 to 1945 Sidden) is also connected by a land connection. There is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Eibenau
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wensöwen in the parish of Czychen
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Jehke, Statzen / Wensöwen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 67
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484