Bogusze (Prostki)

Bogusze
	Bogusze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '9 "  N , 22 ° 27' 16"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 65 : ( Russia -) Gołdap - Olecko - Ełk - Prostki ↔ Grajewo - Białystok - Bobrowniki (- Belarus )
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Prostki
Next international airport :	Danzig

Bogusze ( German  Boggusch ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Bogusze on the River Elk ( Polish Ełk ) located in the southern eastern part of the Warmia and Mazury , 17 kilometers southeast of the county seat Ełk ( German  Elk ) and five kilometers northwest of the already in the Podlaskie neighbors on county town Grajewo .

Border column in Bogusze

history

Bogusze has always been a border village, as evidenced by the "Ostrokollnische Grenzsäule", Duke Albrecht's , which is still on today's Polish state road 65 . It was created in 1545 when Bogusze was the border point in the triangle between the Kingdom of Poland , the Duchy of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . From 1815 he marked the border between Prussia and Russia, from 1871 between the German Reich and Russia, from 1918 between the German Reich and Poland, and from 1939 to 1941 between the German Reich and the Soviet Union.

The village of Bogusze is now part of the Prostki rural community .

Religions

On the Catholic side, Bogusze belongs to Grajewo within the Diocese of Łomża of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , and on the Protestant side to the Church in Ełk (Lyck) , a subsidiary of the Pisz (Johannisburg) parish in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Bogusze is located on today's national road 65 , an important transport link between Russia , eastern Masuria and Belarus . The nearest train station is Prostki on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Web links

Commons : Border column in Bogusze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 75
2. ↑ The Ostrokollnische Grenzsäule
3. ^ Wieś Bogusze w liczbach