Kowale Oleckie
Kowale Oleckie ( German Kowahlen, 1938-45 Reimannswalde ) is a Polish rural community in the powiat Olecki in the extreme east of Warmia and Mazury. The community Kowale Oleckie hatt about 5,000 inhabitants and is situated between the county town of Olecko and Gołdap.
History
The territory of the country village belonged since the end of the 13th century the Teutonic Order state and has long been an uninhabited wilderness. The adverse conditions were unattractive for German colonists, so that the area was settled late from the south from the Polish Mazovia.
In 1563 handed Albert I of Brandenburg -Ansbach Absolan Rymanów 1,008 acres of coniferous forest as a fief and gave him jurisdiction over this area. In this region in 1564 was the Good Chelchen and the land Kowahlen, which was named after the Polish settlers January Kowalewscy.
The village had 653 inhabitants in 1910. In the 1930s, the community and its environs flourished as many new businesses opened and new roads were built, the population rose to 1,126 (1933 ) and 1233 ( 1939). As part of the Germanization of Polish and Lithuanian place names in East Prussia by the Nazi regime Kowahlen 1938 was renamed Reimannswalde (after Rymanów = Reimann ).
22-23. January 1945 Kowale Oleckie was occupied by the Red Army and handed over a few weeks in Polish administration later.
Gmina Kowale Oleckie
The municipality consists of the following smaller villages: