Gronowo, Braniewo County

Gronowo ( German Grunau, Kr Heiligenbeil / East Prussia ) is a village in the extreme northwest of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gmina Braniewo ( Brown Mountain ) in the district of Braniewo. The place is Polish border crossing point to the Russian place Mamonowo ( Heiligenbeil ) in Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ).

Geography

Gronowo is located on the former German Reich road 1 and the present-day Polish country road (DK) 54 at the transition to the Russian highway A 194 between the present county seat Braniewo ( Brown Mountain ) and the former county town Mamonowo ( Heiligenbeil ).

A road connects Gronowo with the former imperial highway Berlin- Königsberg, which is the route of the Polish expressway S 22 and R 516 Russian highway today, and to be re-opened to traffic on December 7, 2010.

To the mouth of Pasłęka ( Passarge ) on the coast of the Vistula Lagoon in Stara Pasłęka (Alt Passarge ) there are seven kilometers.

The railway line from Malbork ( Marienburg (West Prussia )) to Kaliningrad (Königsberg ( Prussia) ) leads northwest over to Gronowo and is on the Braniewo station ( Brown Mountain, 6 km away).

History

In 1331 the parish Grunau Old Passarge is mentioned.

The village of Grunau belongs to 1945 the district Heiligenbeil in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia. In 1910 the city counted 327 inhabitants, whose number rose to 391 to 1933 and 1939, amounted to 402. The local court was in Heiligenbeil.

On June 11, 1874, the district of Grunau was formed. He sat from the four rural communities Grunau (now Polish: Gronowo ) Neudamerow ( Nowa Dąbrowa, not more exist), cycling ( Rodowo ) and Wermten ( on Russian territory, no longer exists ) and the four agricultural estates carbene (Russian: Brigorkino, not more exist), Einsiedel ( Siedlisken, not more exist), Hammersdorf ( Młoteczno ) and dispute Walde ( Strzyżeno, not more exist) together. Due to recent reforms in community inclusion of smaller towns to larger organizations, the Office Grunau in 1945 still consisted of the three rural communities Grunau, hammer village and Wermten.

Through the establishment of the Polish- Russian border after 1945 Grunau became part of Poland and is now part of Gmina Braniewo places in the powiat Braniewski in the Warmia and Mazury ( 1975-1998 Voivodeship Elbing ). The village has more than a hundred inhabitants.

Church

Parish

Dating back to pre-Reformation time parish Grunau Old Passarge (Alt Passarge was reclassified in 1929 according to Brown Mountain ) counted prior to 1945 a total of 844 members of the congregation. In the parish, the Pasłęka ( Passarge ) east dragged himself, were twelve towns, which were divided into two school districts (Note: * = school places, ° = site no longer exists ):

  • Einsiedel ° ( Siedlisko )
  • Gerlach village ( Zgoda )
  • Hammersdorf ( Młoteczno )
  • Helenenhof °
  • Neudamerau ° ( Nowa Dąbrowa )
  • Wheel ( Rodowo )
  • Rossen * ( Rusy )
  • Ruhnenberg ° ( Runka )
  • Armed Walde ° ( Strzyżeno )
  • Vorderwald ( Podleśne )
  • Guard shack ° ( Fhs. )

The parish Grunau belonged until 1945 to the church district Heiligenbeil in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia, the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Pastor until 1945

  • Erhardus NN. , 1525
  • Johannes Frisch, ?
  • Peter NN. ?
  • Caspar Scheibichen, 1541-1545 (also the pastor of Lindenau )
  • Bartholomew Luther Mann, 1545-1554
  • Johann Zimmermann, 1554-1564
  • Philipp Mekeler, 1564-1566
  • Andrew Finkel Thaus, 1566-1582
  • David Finkel Thaus, 1582-1634
  • Christoph Siegfried, 1634-1637
  • Thomas Bernhardi, 1637-1666
  • Samuel Augustin grove, 1666-1691
  • Johann Biemann, 1691-1718
  • Johann Friedrich Sartorius, 1718-1721
  • Daniel Heinrich Beyer, 1721-1732
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Büttner, 1732-1745
  • Johann Christoph Scheltz, 1745-1762
  • Johann Reinhold Fischer, 1763-1804
  • Christian Gottlieb Kuhr, 1804-1846
  • Julius Charles W. Lube, 1847-1866
  • Johann Heinrich Pancritius, 1866-1876
  • Ernst H. E. Wehringer, 1876-1893
  • Alfred Gotttlieb Petersdorff, 1894
  • Hermann Moritz W. Lau, 1894-1926
  • Hans Krumm, 1927-1935
  • Albert Hoffmann, 1935-1940
  • Otto Krause, 1941-1945
Voivodeship (Poland) Braniewo County Vehicle registration plates of Poland Expressway S22 (Poland) Amtsgericht Elbląg Voivodeship Grzechotki
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