Biel (Reszel)

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Biel (Poland)
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Biel
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Reszel
Geographic location : 54 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '55 "  N , 21 ° 5' 25"  E
Residents : 6 (2006)
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 594 : Kętrzyn - Reszel ↔ Bisztynek
Rail route : PKP line 353: Poznań – Schelesnodoroschny
railway station: Sątopy-Samulewo
Next international airport : Danzig



Biel ( German  Weißensee ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location and transport links

Biel is located on the north bank of the Zaine ( Sajna in Polish ) and four kilometers west of the city of Reszel (Rößel) on Voivodeship Road 594 . The nearest train station is Sątopy-Samulewo (Santoppen-Bischdorf) on the state railway line from Poznań (Posen) via Toruń (Thorn) to Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) and on to Chernjachowsk (Insterburg) in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ).

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the place essentially consisted of a large courtyard. In 1874 which was Gutsbezirk Weissensee in the newly built office district Molditten (: Mołdyty today Polish) incorporated, which the district Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 there were 46 registered residents in Weißensee.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Weißensee, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the manor districts of Molditten (Mołdyty), Truchsen (Troksy) and Weissensee merged to form a new rural municipality of Molditten.

As a result of the Second World War , Weißensee came to Poland with southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name of Biel . From 1975 to 1998 the village was part of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , then it belonged to the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Today the village is a place within the urban and rural community Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

church

Evangelical

The Protestant part of the population of Weißensee was parish off before 1945 in the Protestant church Rößel , which belonged to the parish of Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Protestant church members living in Biel today belong to the parish church in Kętrzyn , which is part of the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945 the majority of the residents of Weißensee were of the Catholic denomination. The parish church in Rößel stood for them too, and it is the same to which the Catholic church members of Biel now belong. She is now assigned to the Deanery Reszel in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Jehke: Molditten district
  2. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Rößel district
  3. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 110
  4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume III: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 490.