Łężany (Reszel)

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Łężany
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Łężany (Poland)
Łężany
Łężany
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Reszel
Geographic location : 53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '7 "  N , 21 ° 8' 35"  E
Residents : 323 (2011)
Postal code : 11-440
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext . 590 : Barciany - Korsze - Reszel - Robawy ↔ Bredynki - Biskupiec
Samławki / ext. 596 → Łężany
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Łężany (German Loszainen , 1936 to 1945 Loßainen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Łężany belongs to the Powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) in the Gmina Reszel ( urban and rural community Rößel ).

Geographical location

Łężany is located in northern Poland, about 40 kilometers south of the Polish state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . To the north of the village is Lake Legien ( Jezioro Legińskie in Polish ). It is nine kilometers to the north to the former district town of Rößel ( Reszel in Polish ), today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ) is 19 kilometers to the northeast.  

history

Place name

The place name has seen multiple changes in the course of history. The place was called Neu Lusegein around 1391 , then Neu Loßainen , after 1820 Loszeinen , after 1871 Lossainen and until 1936 Loszainen . On February 12, 1936, Loßainen was established as the valid written form .

Local history

In 1391, the bishop of Warmia awarded Henry III. Sorbom the hand-held celebrations according to the agricultural constitution of the Teutonic Order state for the Neu Lusegein estate. The village probably belonged to the Legienen property ( Leginy ).

A Gustav Fischer bought the 1885 with the Vorwerk Ploen yards (Polish Plenowo ) 628 hectares comprehensive Well , his son Reinhold Fischer-Lossainen was here in 1910, a neo-baroque castle building.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Loszainen, 140 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

During the Second World War , the Red Army took the area in January 1945 and placed it under the administration of the People's Republic of Poland in March 1945 as "Okręg mazurski" . She renamed Loßainen in Łężany. The castle survived the war largely unscathed. The estate was used by the Olsztyn Agricultural University ( Wyższa Szkoła Rolnicza ), now part of the University of Warmia-Masuria, for experimental purposes. Above all through the commitment of Prof. Dr. Dominik Wanic, renovation work was carried out on the castle. Even before her graduation, the university used it as a teaching building and student residence from the 1960s.

In 1973, after the dissolution of the Gromadas , the village became part of the Wola Schulzenamt in the municipality of Reszel .

Population numbers

year number
1820 775
1885 132
1905 126
1910 169
1933 360
1939 358
2011 323

church

Until 1945 Loszainen (Loßainen) was parish in the Protestant Church of Warpuhnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Legienen in the diocese of Warmia . The ecclesiastical connection remained after 1945: Łężany belongs to the Evangelical Church in Warpuny , which is now looked after by the Sorkwity parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and also to the Catholic Parish Leginy in the current Archdiocese of Warmia within the Polish Catholic Church Church .

Attractions

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Castle in Łężany

The castle built in 1910 is one of the sights of the village. The castle has a corner projection, a veranda and a polygonal turret with a west tower with a hipped roof . A lantern forms the top of the tower. Despite the looting, the interior has been partially preserved. The interior details that are worth seeing include the stucco ceilings in the representative rooms, oak wall paneling, the original tiles in the kitchen and the unchanged bathroom on the upper floor. Wall paintings depicting emblems of the sea fleet were discovered in the house's wine cellar. The house is owned by the University of Warmia-Masuria. In 1992 the Polish politician Tadeusz Matyjek leased the house and began extensive renovation work. In 2001 the university wanted to end the lease, Matyjek refused and only wanted to return it after financial compensation for his investments. A court ruling in 2003 forced him to surrender the house.

North facade of the castle

Castle Park

The castle is located in a park that is closed off by a forest to the north. In the northeast of the park there is a chapel, which originally was the mausoleum of the Fischer family.

Infrastructure

traffic

Wojewodschaftsstraße 590 runs through Łężany , here in the section of the former German Reichsstraße 141 . Via the DW 590, the town of Biskupiec ( German:  Bischofsburg ) can be reached after 17 kilometers to the south and the town of Reszel (Rößel) after about nine kilometers to the north . In Łężany there is also a side road coming from the west of Samławki (Samlack) , which connects to Voivodeship Road 596 .

There is no connection to rail traffic .

The geographically closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 110 kilometers northwest on Russian territory outside the borders of the European Union. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Walesa Airport in Gdansk, about 180 kilometers to the west .

education

There is a branch of the University of Warmia-Masuria in Łężany .

Personalities

Native of the place

Connected to the place


literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 204-206 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 696
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Loßainen
  3. ↑ a b c d arta.olsztyn.pl, ŁĘŻANY LOSSAINEN, Loßainen , accessed on July 1, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b c Lezany - Loßainen at ostpreussen.net .
  5. ↑ 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. 109
  6. ↑ Swat 1978, pp. 204-205.
  7. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 205.
  8. ↑ a b Loszainen at GenWiki
  9. ↑ Wieś Łężany w liczbach
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingne 1968, p. 502
  11. ↑ gazeta.pl, Uniwersytet odzyskał Łężany , July 1, 2007 .