Giławy
Giławy until 1945 German: Gillau, is a village and sołectwo in the southern Warmia and Mazury. It belongs to the Gmina Purda in powiat Olsztyński in northeastern Poland.
- 2.1 Population development
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
- 4.3 footnotes
Geography
Geographical Location
The village is located ( 19.5 ha) located approximately 25 km south-east of Olsztyn between the lake Serwent (250 ha) and Lake Giławy. The five villages Gąsiorowo, Giławy, Groszkowo, Nerwik and Zaborowo belong to sołectwo Giławy.
Geology
The landscape was designed by the ice sheet and is a post-glacial, hilly, wooded moraine with numerous channel lakes and rivers. Characteristic of the area are numerous lakes, marshes, ponds, and coniferous and mixed forests, which cover 53 % of its territory Purda.
History
On August 19, 1407, the Bishop of Warmia gave the Tangible after the agrarian constitution of the German Order state the Gillau Jacob, son of Mykens Sirwithen, for a departmental traffic on the lake Sirwithen ( Serwent ) of 40 with four hooves Freienhufen for the mayor. In 1441 Lokationsvertrag with 30 hooves was newly awarded for Gillau.
After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 Warmia was classified as an autonomous Prince-Bishopric of Warmia the crown of Poland; the border of the Duchy of Prussia was to 1772 about one kilometer south at Gillau. During the Prussian war Pfaff Gillau was completely destroyed in 1479 by the troops of the Polish king.
With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia was Gillau including a part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
In May 1874, the District was Preylowen (after linearization of the place names: Preiwils 1938-1945) formed with the rural community Gillau and the living space small Gillau.
In the referendum on July 11, 1920 190 votes for and 58 votes for Poland East Prussia: Location.
The biggest farms in the years 1930-1932 were:
Population Development
Religions
Gillau first belonged to the parish of Great Purden. In 1898 was in Gillau the St. John Baptist church built - to the parish were: Gillau, Graskau, Gonschorowen, big and small Rauschken, Klutznik, Nerwigk, Podlassen, Saborowen and Wallen.