After the Mennonites left in 1874, some of the villages were inhabited by Lutheran Germans. A descendant of one of the later inhabitants provided me with this map, which shows Leeleva at a slightly later date than the map above. Based on the locations of the cemetaries, I also think this map shows a portion of Leeleva slightly to the east of the map above:
Here's a close up shot of Leeleva as shown on the Polish Army map from the 1920s. Note the location of the two cemetaries in Leeleva (Lesna) (marked as Cm on the map). Was the more northerly the Mennonite cemetary while the southern one was Lutheran? Based on the geography of the hand-drawn maps above, I feel this could be the case:
Finally, here's a hand-drawn map of Karolswalde c.1900, taken from the Karlswalde web pages (http://home.arcor.de/pulin/karlswalde/maps_ph1.htm). Like the other hand-drawn maps, the geography may be a bit off here, because it was drawn by a person remembering the village from decades ago. The details are probably all fairly correct, but may be in the wrong places.
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