Karolewo, Kętrzyn County
Karolewo ( German Carlshof or Karlshof ) is a village in Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in powiat Kętrzyński, community Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ).
- 3.1 Traffic
- 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.1 Literature
- 5.2 External links
- 5.3 footnotes
Geography
The village is situated one kilometer east of Kętrzyn, about 105 meters above sea level. The border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast runs approximately 30 kilometers north of Karolewo.
History
Institution for epileptics
On 31 October 1881 the Commission for labor of love of the East and the West Prussian Provincial Synod of the Evangelical Church went to the message that the infirmary department of the provincial work house would be closed due to lack of space and the 200 inmates, among whom were 27 epileptics who are made redundant had. The Rastenburger Superintendent Christian folding (1832-1905) was then given by the Synod consent to the establishment of an institution for epileptics and bought already on November 4, 1881 a convenient baronial old seat near Rastenburg: Carlshof. On October 23, 1882 Institution of analysis was passed and the first 36 epileptics are taken, including the hitherto in the Bodelschwinghschen institutions to Bethel housed Pfleglinge from East and West Prussia. After 30 years, was out of the country house with 36 patients a city become in the mountains with a house church of about 1500 souls, Carlshof had become a nursery of the manifold works of the Inner Mission - a home for over 800 epileptics, for approximately 200 Travellers and as many care wards, 25 for alcohol abusers. 100 employees of the provincial church worked here. It was after and came to a large agriculture in four farmyards of 1200 acres to work with opportunities for Pfleglinge and pets. Superintendent Christian folding brought the work to the limit of its possibilities; at a funeral suddenly abandoned him during the funeral of memory and he collapsed. Then he left the Institute to build a hospital and school for small children in the district Neustadt later ..
History of the village
The village was established in the early 19th century as a workers' settlement. 1901, the church of the village was built. In 1910, the Institute about 1,000 patients, of whom 807 had suffered from epilepsy, the other consumptive, mentally ill or alcoholic.
During National Socialism, the patients in the hospital were systematically murdered in the course of so-called racial hygiene. During the Second World War, a military hospital was set up in the buildings of the institution. Furthermore, an SS school was established here officially. But this was only a disguise for deployment of SS - soldiers who protected the nearby Wolf's Lair in the village of Görlitz ( Gierłoż ). In January 1945, the area was occupied by the Red Army and subsequently fell to Poland. Began in 1947 in the partially destroyed buildings of the former Institute is an agricultural college teaching activities. By 1974, the school reported 3,751 graduates. 1970 were counted in Karolewo 1,359 inhabitants. Since 1973, the village is part of the Office Schulz Kruszewiec. In the context of an administrative reform in Poland, where the Olsztyn Voivodeship was dissolved, the village came to the newly formed Province of Warmia and Mazury.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
By Karolewo the voivodship road leads 592 ( droga wojewódzka 592 ). Leads you into about a kilometer away Kętrzyn and ends in the west at about 50 kilometers in Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein ). To the east, the road leads after 30 km at Giżycko ( Lötzen ) in the provincial road 59
By Karolewo leads a train track, the place itself has no railway station, but this is in Kętrzyn.
The nearest international airport is the Kaliningrad airport about 110 kilometers north of Karolewo on Russian territory. About 220 kilometers to the west lies the Lech Walesa Airport Gdansk, which is the nearest international airport on the territory of Poland. The airport Szczytno - Szymany located about 80 kilometers south of Karolewo, but this has ceased all its operations in late 2006.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Hermann Dembowski (* 1928 in Carlshof, † 2012 in Bonn), German Protestant theologian and university lecturer