Bemowo Piskie

Bemowo Piskie
	Bemowo Piskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 44 '  N , 22 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '58 "  N , 22 ° 3' 32"  E
Residents :	1299 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	1867N: Drygały / ext. 667 ↔ Wierzbiny / DK 16
	Orzysz / DK 63 → Bemowo Piskie
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Drygały
	Ełk – Orzysz train station: Orzysz
Next international airport :	Danzig

Bemowo Piskie [ bɛˈmɔvɔ ˈpʲiskʲɛ ] (1945–1955 Karczmisko , German  Schlagakrug ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to the urban and rural community of Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ) .

Geographical location

Bemowo Piskie is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the south-east of the restricted military area of ​​the Arys military training area (now Poligon Orzysz in Polish ). The nearest town Orzysz ( German Arys ) is 13 kilometers to the northwest, and the district town of Pisz ( German Johannisburg ) is 21 kilometers to the southwest.   

Place name

Originally the small village was called Schlagakrug in reference to the inn owner Schlaga . In 1945 the place was given the Polish form of the name Karczmisko (Karczma = Polish for "tavern", "tavern"), and by order no. 293 of the Prime Minister of September 27, 1955, the place name Bemowo Piskie - in view of the military importance of the place probably from Name of the Polish general Józef Bem (1794–1850) derived and with the addition to the name related to belonging to the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

history

The later barracks Schlagakrug was founded in 1561, when the place was awarded to the Kruger Andreas Schlaga von Koslowen (1938-1945 Wildfrieden , Polish Kozłowo , no longer existent).

Schlagakrug was a village in the municipality Oszywilken (1928-1945 Wolfsheide, Polish Oszczywilki, no longer exists) in the district Wiersbinnen (1938-1945 tunnels village, Polish Wierzbiny) in the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In connection with the establishment of the Arys military training area, Schlagakrug was expanded and used as a barracks. As the place in consequence of the war in 1945 with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland came, the building until 1955 were Karczmisko , then Bemowo Piskie mentioned place still used for military purposes. And still today, Bemowo Piskie is a military base camp, since 2017 it has also been occupied by foreign military personnel. Bemowo Piskie is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Bemowo Piskie military base

The use of the Arys military training area by the German Wehrmacht until 1945 was continued by the Polish military. Bemowo Piskie is in the restricted area. In 1960 an artillery training center ( Polish Ośrodek Szkolenia Specjalistów Artylerii ) was set up, the importance of which grew and was expanded in 1978 (Centrum Szkolenia Specjalistów Wojsk Obrony Powietrznej Kraju) and 1992 (Centrum Szkolenia Specjalistów Wojsk Rakietowych) .

Due to the armament initiative NATO Enhanced Forward Presence , which was decided at the NATO summit on July 8 and 9, 2016 in Warsaw , Bemowo Piskie also moved into the focus of foreign military. On March 30, 2017, a 1000-strong troop battalion reached the Bemowo Piskie military base - with members of the military from Great Britain, the USA, Romania and Croatia. Another 400 soldiers are to follow. The NATO troops were welcomed on April 13, 2017.

Religions

Evangelical

Before 1945, Schlagakrug was parish in the Protestant parish Drygallen (1938–1945 Drigelsdorf, Polish: Drygały) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the Protestant church members keep to the church in Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) , a branch church of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945, Schlagakrug belonged to the Catholic parish in Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Since March 27, 1995 there is a Parafia wojskowa św in Bemowo Piskie . Brata Alberta Chmielowskiego ( German  military parish hl. Brother Albert Chmielowski ), which is subordinate to the military dean of Warmia-Masuria in the diocese of the Polish military ordinariate .

traffic

Bemowo Piskie is directly connected to the city of Orzysz (Arys) via a side road leading through the military restricted area and thus to the two Polish state roads 16 and 63 as well as the railway line to Ełk . In addition, Bemowo Piskie is on the side road 1867N, which leads to Drygały (Drygallen , 1938–1945 Drigelsdorf) on the provincial road 667 and provides a connection to the Olsztyn – Ełk railway .

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. 17
3. ↑ Schlagakrug I  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schlagakrug
5. ↑ ^{a b} Schlagakrug II
6. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Wiersbinnen / cleats village
7. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
8. ↑ http://www.auslandsdienst.pl/3/21/Artykul/300543,NatoTruppen-erreichen-Orzysz.htm Information Polskie Radio - German editorial office.
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.