Bełcząc (Biała Piska)

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Bełcząc
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Bełcząc (Poland)
Bełcząc
Bełcząc
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 35 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '16 "  N , 22 ° 4' 43"  E
Residents : 166 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Biała Piska / DK 58 / ext. 667 ↔ Kowalewo - Milewo-Gałązki / DP 1868B– Grabowo
Kożuchy / DK 58 - Danowo → Bełcząc
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Bełcząc [ ˈbɛu̯t͡ʂɔnt͡s ] ( German  Belzonzen , 1938–1945 Großdorf (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938-1945 Gehlenburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Bełcząc is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers south-east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village Belzonzen - 1785 Beltzuntzen called - was founded in 1428 by the Teutonic Order as interest village with 40 hooves founded. Renamed on November 15, 1938 - On April 8, 1874 Place Office village and its name to a District, which was the district of Great Village (East Prussia.) - was, and until 1945 the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

336 residents were registered in Belzonzen in 1910, 326 in 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Belzonzen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Belzonzen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Belzonzen was for political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-appearing place names in Großdorf (Ostpr.) Renamed . The number of inhabitants decreased to 302 by 1939.

In 1945 the village was handed over to Poland in the wake of the war with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name Bełcząc . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt and thus a locality in the network of the city and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Bełcząc had 166 inhabitants.

Belzonzen / Großdorf district (Ostpr.), 1874–1945

Religions

Until 1945 Belzonzen was parish in the Protestant parish Bialla (1938-1945 Gehlenburg , Polish Biała Piska ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Bełcząc belongs to the Catholic side of the parish Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents also stick to Biała Piska, whose parish is now a subsidiary of the Pisz parish within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Belzonzen became a school location in 1819.

traffic

Bełcząc is located on a side road that leads from Białla Piska via Kowalewo (Kowalewen , 1938–1945 Richtwalde) in the Podlaskie Voivodeship via droga powiatowa ("county road") 1848B to Grabowo . A side street from Kożuchy (Kosuchen , 1938–1945 Kölmerfelde) ends in Bełcząc . There is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 17
  2. ↑ a b Droga powiatowa (= "county road")
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Großdorf (Ostpr.)
  4. ↑ a b c Belzonzen - Grossdorf / Großdorf in family research Sczuka
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke: Belzonzen / Großdorf district (East Pr.)
  6. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Johannisburg
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ 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. 73.
  9. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  10. ↑ Wieś Bełcząc w liczbach
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.