Wielewo (Barciany)

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Wielewo (Poland)
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Wielewo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 21 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '40 "  N , 21 ° 17' 2"  E
Residents : 59 (December 31, 2010)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Aptynty / ext. 591 ↔ Frączkowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wielewo ( German  Willkamm ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The village is part of the Schulzenamtes ( sołectwo ) Aptynty in the rural community Barciany (Barten) and belongs to the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Wielewo is located in northern Poland, about four kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast in historic East Prussia .

history

Agricultural building in Wielewo
Willkamm manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
The former Willkamm manor house
Manor house and pond in 2009

The origin of today's Wielewo is presumably a gift to Hinrik Brunsert from the Prussian family von Bronsart . He received 12 hooves from the later Willkam estate as a gift. According to other sources, it was localized in 1409 according to Kulmer law . In 1474 the mercenary Niclas von Rautter received the estate from the Teutonic Order . His successors lived in Willkam until 1945.

In 1785 there were ten residential buildings in the village, in 1933 587 and in 1939 515 people lived in Willkamm.

From 1874 to 1945 Will Comb office Village was and thus its name to a District , the for loop Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Only one village belonged to the district: Willkamm.

In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Willkam became part of the People's Republic of Poland as “Wielewo” . In 1970 there were 156 people living in the village, and a 45-seat cinema was available. In 1973 the village became part of the Momajny (Momehnen) Schulzenamt in the municipality of Skandawa (Skandau) , from 1977 the municipality of Barciany.

Good welcome comb

The von Rautter family's country estate, built in 1797, is located in the village . The building is one story and is now in decline. The windows were very deep and almost reached the floor. In the middle of the garden side there is a round porch. In 1925, the wings were added according to plans by master builder Gemmel from Gerdauen. After the Second World War, the military was initially housed here, later the building was used by an agricultural production cooperative ( Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne , PGR).

church

Until 1945 Willkamm was parish in the Protestant Church of Molthainen (1938 to 1945 Molteinen , Polish Mołtajny ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church Insterburg (today in Russian Chernyachovsk ) in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Wielewo belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Anna Mołtajny in the current Archdiocese of Warmia and to the Protestant parish of Barciany , a branch of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

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Street

The village of Wielewo is not on any major road. On a side road can east to about one kilometer when Aptynty (Aftinten) the provincial road 591 (earlier German national road 141 ) will be achieved.

rails

The place has no regular rail connection. The nearest train station is 16 kilometers south in Korsze ( Korschen ), where there are direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Posen, as well as Ełk (Lyck) and Białystok .

Both east and west of the town run rail tracks , which are hardly used today. Originally they formed a connection between Gerdauen (Russian Железнодорожный = Schelesnodoroschny ) in the north and Korsze in the south, today expanded to include the PKP railway line Anielin Gradowo – Wielewo (–Schelesnodoroschny) , which was built between 1951 and 1956 and a freight station at the Wielewo the transfer region Skandawa was. The train station is north of the village and has not been in operation since 2000.

air

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 80 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 185 kilometers to the west .

Personalities

Native of the place

Connected to the place

  • Niclas von Rautter (15th century), knight of the Teutonic Order, captain of Gerdauen, landowner of Willkamm

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 237 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Wielewo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Barciany (powiat kętrzyński, województwo warmińsko-mazurskie) w 2010 r. Online (xls file)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1448
  3. ↑ a b c ostpreussen.net, Das Gut in Willkamm , November 18, 2004
  4. ↑ a b c Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 237
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Rolf Jehke, Willkamm District
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
  8. ↑ Welcome to GenWiki
  9. ↑ Geographical location of the Wielewo train station
  10. ↑ Katharina Rautter on Willkamm at ostpreussen.net