Mikosze

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Mikosze
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Mikosze (Poland)
Mikosze
Mikosze
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '27 "  N , 21 ° 55' 21"  E
Residents : 240 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - Mikołajki ↔ Orzysz - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Mikosze-Osada → Mikosze
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service)
Railway station: Orzysz
Next international airport : Danzig



Mikosze ( German  Mykossen , 1938 to 1945 Arenswalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( town and country municipality Arys ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Mikosze is located on the northern shore of Lake Scheimo ( Jezioro Sajno in Polish ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The Arys River ( Orzysza in Polish ) runs through the village . It is 21 kilometers south to the district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) .

history

The village of Mikush was first mentioned in 1468. Before 1785 Pansken called the local name changed to 1785 in Mikossen and until 1938 in Mykossen .

On April 8, 1874 Mykossen office Village was an administrative district , which - in 1938 renamed "District Arens Walde" - to 1945 and county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 354 inhabitants registered in Mykossen, in 1933 there were already 420.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Mykossen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Mykossen, 240 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names Mykossen was on June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 in "Arens Walde" renamed . The number of inhabitants decreased to 393 by 1939.

When the entire southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Mykossen resp. Arenswalde also affected. The village received the Polish name form "Mikosze" and is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the urban and rural municipality Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria .

Mykossen / Arenswalde district (1874–1945)

Religions

Before 1945 Mykossen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Arys in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Mikosze belongs to Orzysz in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The evangelical residents stick to the church in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Mikosze is located on the Polish state road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ), which is important for traffic and connects the three voivodeships of Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Warmian-Masurian and Podlachia as an east-west axis . Orzysz is the nearest train station and is located on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothefließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 783
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Arenswalde
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Mykossen / Arens Walde
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 76
  8. ↑ Gmina Orzysz
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491