Jedwabno Commune

Szczytno district

JEDWABNO COMMUNE
1 Maja 37 Street, 12-122 Jedwabno
tel. (089) 6213045; (089) 6213003; Fax (089) 6213094
 www.jedwabno.ple-mail: jedwabno@zgwrp.org.pl

Location, geographical values
The Jedwabno commune is located in the eastern part of the Warmia and Mazury District. It is a unique area regarding a nature and scenery aspect.
It takes part of one of the seven communes of the Szczytno district. The commune's surface reaches 31.151 ha. The area is uneven and over 60 % of the overall surface is made up by forests and lakes. On the commune's area there are about 3700 inhabitants who are registered here for a permanent stay.
The location, climatic conditions and the clean air give excellent possibilities of an active recreation.

History
Jedwabno was the second after Małga old-Prussian people's centre in the part of the Patrąk forest, whose remains exist today in the form of nowadays' beekeepers' forests: Napiwodzkie, Dłużeckie and partly Korpelskie. Its origins can be derived from a pre-Teutonic period. Except for a housing estate there existed also an old-Prussian castle. Around 1380 The Teutonic Knights built a hunting castle near the lake Jedwabskie. This castle's character was defensive. Jedwabno possessed an old beekeepers' village's tradition which is mentioned in the Order friar's rental books from 1436. Along with the extirpation of a nearby forest numerous Polish farmers were settling down here. According to the accounts from 1579 Jedwabno was composed of 66 units and in 1782 it counted 57 smokes and it was a marketing housing estate on the old enlivened route. In the old notes a village Jedwabno appeared under the name of Gedewewe.
The Jedwabno commune was founded in the Szczytno district on the strength of a statue Nr XXI/83/72 of the National District Council in Olsztyn on 6th December 1972.

Monuments
A wooden inn from XVIIIth century in Małszewo village; a catholic church devoted to a saint Józef made of a red brick in Jedwabno built in 1930.

Economy
The Jedwabno commune is also very investors - friendly. What serves this purpose is a suitably prepared infrastructure in the form of a purification plant, water supply services and sewage pipes' system as well as cell telephony's base stations and good communication connections.