Wesołowo (Wielbark)

Wesołowo
	Wesołowo
	Wesołowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Wielbark
Geographic location :	53 ° 26 ' N , 20 ° 51' E Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '22 " N , 20 ° 51' 24" E
Residents :	173 (2011)
Postal code :	12-160
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext . 508 : Jedwabno / DK 58 - Rekownica ↔ Wesołówko - Wielbark / DK 57
	Róklas → Wesołowo ; and Jankowo → Wesołowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Wesołowo ( German Wessolowen , 1938 to 1945 Fröhlichshof ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Wielbark (city and rural community Willenberg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Wesołowo is located on the east bank of the Omulef ( Polish Omulew ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers southwest of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).

Street in the center of Wesłowo

history

The founding deed for the Schatulldorf Wessolowen is dated July 14, 1783 . The place name "im Josephswäldchen" is added to the name of the village. The rural community of Wessolowen was incorporated into the newly established district of Kannwiesen ( Chwalibogi in Polish , no longer existing today) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . On November 8, 1894, it merged with the neighboring village of Jankowen (1938 to 1945 Wildenort , Jankowo in Polish ).

In 1910 a total of 275 inhabitants were registered in Wessolowen. An economic upward development of the village began when after 1925 the construction of the Chaussee Willenberg – Jedwabno (today's Voivodship Road 508 ) was tackled. The number of inhabitants rose to 356 by 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Wessolowen, 225 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Wessolowen was renamed "Fröhlichshof" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population was 345 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the entire southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945, including Fröhlichshof. The village received the Polish name form "Wesołowo" and is today as the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of Gmina Wielbark (city and rural community Willenberg ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

In 2011 Wesołowo had 173 inhabitants. The village is characterized by historic brick buildings from the 20th century. There are also a few wooden houses from the end of the 19th century. As before 1945, there is a forester's house on the edge of the village .

church

Part of the old Protestant cemetery on the road to Wesołówko

Ecclesiastical was Wessolowen resp. Before 1945 Fröhlichshof oriented towards Willenberg : to the Protestant Church of Willenberg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Roman Catholic parish , at that time located in the Diocese of Warmia . The old Protestant cemetery still reminds of the time of the church before 1945 .

Today Wesołowo only belongs to the Catholic side of the city of Wielbark , which is now incorporated into the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant residents are now orienting themselves towards the parish in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Infrastructure

traffic

The Voivodship Road 508 runs through Wesołowo and connects the Gmina Jedwabno ( Jedwabno , 1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) with the city of Wielbark (Willenberg) as well as the Polish state roads DK 58 and DK 57 . Roads also lead from the neighboring towns of Róklas (Rocklaß , Eckwald from 1933 to 1945 ) and Jankowo (Jankowen , Wildenort from 1938 to 1945 ) to Wesołowo. There is no connection to rail traffic .

school

In the reign of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. founded school got a new building in 1925/27. It has been preserved to this day, but is now used for private purposes.

Green cycle tourist route

Wesołowo is located on a 35-kilometer cycle path that leads from Kucbork (Kutzburg) via Sasek Mały (Paterschobensee) to Róklas (Rocklaß , 193 to 1945 Eckwald) , where it ends with an educational forest trail .