Łajs

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Łajs (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyn
Gmina : Purda
Geographic location : 53 ° 37 '  N , 20 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '15 "  N , 20 ° 39' 2"  E
Residents : 33 (2011)
Postal code : 10-687
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Street : Nowa Wieś - Kopanki → Łajs
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Łajs ( German  Layß ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Purda (rural community Groß Purden ) in the powiat Olsztyński ( Allenstein district ).

Geographical location

Lajs between Layßer and Kösnick Lake ( Polish Jezioro Łajskie / Jezioro Kosno ) in the southwestern center of the Warmia and Mazury , 33 kilometers north-east of the former county seat Neidenburg (Polish Nidzica ) and 20 kilometers southeast of the current county metropolis Olsztyn (Allenstein) .

Thatched house in Łajs

history

The small village Layß (after 1871 Layss ) was founded in 1708. The rural community Layß was incorporated into the district of Balden (Polish: Bałdy ) in 1874, which existed until 1945 and belonged to the East Prussian district of Neidenburg . 233 residents were registered in Layß in 1910. Their number rose to 243 by 1933 and totaled 217 in 1939.

With the entire southern East Prussia Layß was in consequence of the war in 1945 Poland transferred. The place received the Polish name form "Łajs" and is now a place within the rural community Purda (Groß Purden) in the powiat Olsztyński ( Allenstein district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs. In 2011 Łajs had 33 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Layß was parish in the Protestant Church of Neu Bartelsdorf ( Nowa Wieś in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and in the Roman Catholic Church of Wuttrienen ( Butryny in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Łajs still belongs to the parish church in the village now called Butryny , which is now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, the village now belongs to the parish Pasym (Passenheim) with the branch community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

"Limit of unity"

"Limit of Unity" sign
"Border crossing point"

In connection with the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, the historical border between Warmia and Moors was brought to mind. As part of the “Granica Jedności” (“Border of Unity”) project between 2004 and 2006, a memorial cross was erected, a symbolic border crossing was created and memorial plaques were set up, accompanied by cultural and church events.

traffic

Łajs is located away from the traffic in the Masurian border area. From Nowa Wieś (Neu Bartelsdorf) a side road leads via Kopanki (Kopanken) to Łajs. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Commons : Łajs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Łajs w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , S 686 (Polish)
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Layß
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Balden District
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local register, Neidenburg district
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490
  8. ↑ circle Neidenburg in AGoFF