Śwignajno Wielkie

Śwignajno Wielkie
	Śwignajno Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 '  N , 21 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 '43 "  N , 21 ° 31' 37"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 610 : Ruciane-Nida ↔ Ukta - Gałkowo - Piecki
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport :	Danzig

Śwignajno Wielkie ( German  Groß Schwignainen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Ruciane-Nida ( urban and rural community Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Śwignajno Wielkie is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 26 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) and 19 kilometers northwest of today's district metropolis Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The after 1774 Schwignainen after 1785 Schwiegnaino and until 1945 United Schwignainen called (with supplement) today Weiler ( Polish Osada ) was founded in the 1704th In 1874, the estate village in was District Ukta incorporated that to 1945 for Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The Groß Schwignainen manor district had 41 inhabitants in 1910.

On September 30, 1928, the village gave up its independence and was incorporated into the rural community Schönfeld-Schwignainen, which on April 7, 1930 was renamed " Schönfeld " (without addition, today in Polish: Ładne Pole).

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name form "Śwignajno Wielkie" - now independently again. Today it is part of the urban and rural community Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden) , now "changed" from the Sensburg district to the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodship , since then the Warmia voivodship Assigned to Masuria.

Religions

Until 1945, Groß Schwignainen was parish in the Protestant church Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Śwignajno Wielkie belongs on the Catholic side to the Ukta parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents also orientate themselves towards the parish in Ukta, which is now a subsidiary parish of the parish in Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Śwignajno Wielkie is on the provincial road 610 , which connects the town of Ruciane-Nida to the town of Mrągowo via Piecki (whip village) . The nearest train station is Ruciane-Nida on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line. Until 1945, Alt Ukta was the next train station and was on the now abandoned Sensburg – Rudczanny / Niedersee railway line .  

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Groß Schwignainen
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Ukta district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500