Skandawa
Skandawa ( German Skandau ) is a village in Poland in the Warmia - Mazury. It belongs to the municipality Barciany ( baleen ) in Kętrzyński powiat ( county Rastenburg ). The place is owned Krzeczewo ( Sonnenburg ) seat of a Schulz Office ( sołectwo ) to which the place.
- 3.1 Traffic
- 5.1 Literature
- 5.2 External links
- 5.3 footnotes
Geography
Skandawa is located in north-eastern Poland, seven kilometers south of the border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast. Neighbouring localities are in the north Momajny, in the east Frączkowo (Fritz village), in the south Modgarby ( Modgarben ), in the southwest Kreczewo ' ( Sonnenburg ) and Silginy ( Sillginnen ) and in the northwest Solkieniki ( Solknick ).
History
Today's Skandawa was established in 14-15. Century a series of smaller goods. Between 1335 and 1341, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Dietrich von Altenburg were three hooks on the brothers Santape and Joduthe .. 1364 Fritz possessed of residential village here a manor after Kulm law. The following year, there were already two manors according to Magdeburg law with an area of 24 feet. 1437 Hans Schordemer was the owner of the two estates. There was also a good after Kulm law with an area of 40 feet. In the 16th century acquired the stone from Egloff parts of Skandawa.
Between 1826 and 1828 a neoclassical mansion was built. Building owner was the Countess Sophie von Schwerin, had also contributed to the construction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. 1930 to 1940 the building was extensively renovated, but destroyed in the Second World War and never rebuilt. The manor was last Dietrich Graf von Dönhoff (1902-1991), a brother of Marion Dönhoff, who had inherited it from his uncle Stanislaus Graf von Dönhoff ( 1862-1929 ). His wife was Karin ( "Sissi" ) von Lehndorff, sister of the resistance fighter Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff - Steinort.
At the end of the Second World War, the Red Army marched into the area. First, the town is part of the circle Gerdauen the future demarcation remained there has not been clear. The circle was dissolved on January 1, 1947, Skandawa became part of the newly formed Polish Powiats Kętrzyński. A council was formed on 23 April 1947. Starting in 1954, the village was home to a Gromada, which in 1960 had an area of 100.62 km ² and 2,753 inhabitants. In 1967 a medical point was built in 1974 and a national agricultural cooperative ( Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne, PGR) founded with a surface area of 6,980 acres to farm. 1970, there were Skandawa in a primary school, which was attended by 38 children, a library and a cinema with 100 seats. 1973, with the dissolution of Gromadas, the place was the seat of a municipality with eleven offices Schulz ( sołectwo ) and 41 villages. The Soltysships were Asuny, Duje, Gradowo, Krelikiejmy, Lwowiec, Michałkowo, Modgarby, Mołtajny, Momajny, Silginy and Skandawa itself in 1977 the church was dissolved, the mayor's office Lwowiec came to church Sepopol, the rest of the community Barciany.
Population Development
In 1785 the village had and the associated Vorwerk 26 residential buildings. 1939, the place had 503 inhabitants. 1970 lived in 267 Skandawa.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Skandawa is located on a side road that leads east across the Frączkowo, four kilometers away Kotki where it flows into the voivodeship road 591 ( droga wojewódzka 591 ). To the west, a road leads to Silginy and Krelikiejmy, in a northwesterly by Solkieniki and Garbno.
The town has a railway station, this is no longer used for regular passenger transport. The railway line was created end of the 19th century and resulted in the north to Gerdauen (now Schelesnodoroschny / Железнодорожный ) and south to Korschen ( Korsze ). Today it is mainly used by the Border Patrol.
The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad, about 80 kilometers north-west is located on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is located about 180 kilometers west of Lech Walesa Airport, Gdansk.
Personalities
- Wolf Wiechert (* 1938), German writer