Piecuchy

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Piecuchy
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Piecuchy (Poland)
Piecuchy
Piecuchy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 29 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '54 "  N , 21 ° 3' 59"  E
Residents : 96 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Małdaniec → Piecuchy
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Piecuchy ( German  Wessolygrund , 1933 to 1945 Freudengrund ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Piecuchy is located east of the Waldpusch ( Polish Wałpusza ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsbnurg ).

history

The founding deed of the small village, called Wesolygrond after 1820 and Wessoligrund after 1871, is dated August 9, 1803. In 1829, the community area was expanded to include forest land.

In 1874 Wessolygrund was incorporated into the newly established district of Materschobensee ( Polish: Sasek Wielki ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg , and in 1932 it came to the district of Maldanietz (1938 to 1945 Maldanen , Polish : Małdaniec ). In 1910 Wessolygrund had 190 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wessolygrund belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wessolygrund, 139 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 13, 1933, Wessolygrund received a change of name and was then called "Freudengrund", which corresponds to a literal translation. The population was 190 in the same year and 184 in 1939.

Freudengrund was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war, along with all of southern East Prussia . The village was given the Polish form of name "Piecuchy" and is today with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship Masuria belonging. In 2011 Piecuchy had 96 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Wessolygrund was resp. Freudengrund was incorporated into the Protestant Church of Lipowitz (1933 to 1945 Lindenort , Lipowiec in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and into the Roman Catholic parish of Ortelsburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Piecuchy belongs on the Protestant side to the parish Szczytno in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and on the Catholic side to the parish church in Lipowiec in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The village school in Wessolygrund was once under the government of Friedrich Wilhelm III. was founded.

traffic

Piecuchy is on a side road from neighboring Małdaniec ( Maldanietz , 1938-1945 Maldanen reach) from. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Piecuchy w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 916
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Freudengrund
  4. ↑ a b c Wessolygrund / Freudengrund at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Materschobensee / Maldanitz / Maldanen district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 99
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496