Bystrz
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Szczytno | |
Gmina : | Świętajno | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 36 ' N , 21 ° 21' E | |
Residents : | ||
Postal code : | 12-150 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | |
License plate : | NSZ | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Spychowo / DK 59 ↔ Kierwik - Koczek | |
Rail route : |
Railway Olsztyn – Ełk Railway station: Spychowo |
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Next international airport : | Danzig |
Bystrz ( German Bystrz , 1938 to 1945 Brücknersmühl ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).
Geographical location
Bystrz is located between the Puppener See ( Polish Jezioro Spychowskie ) and Kurwig See (1938 to 1945 Kurwick See , Polish Jezioro Kierwik ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 25 kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).
history
The small town called Bistrz after 1785, Bystrz around 1820 , Bystrz Mühle after 1820 , consisting of a sawmill and several small farms, was founded in 1751. The founding privilege is dated September 30th of that year. At that time, Friedrich the Great prescribed a house mill with two different grinds on the Bystrzfließ to Gottfried Brückner . Since 1892 the place was named as part of the municipality Puppen (Polish Spychowo ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . In 1905 Bystrz Mühle had 214 inhabitants and was renamed Brücknersmühl in 1938 .
As a result of the war, Brücknersmühl came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . Today's hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) bears the name "Bystrz" again. He belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
church
Until 1945 Bystrz or Brücknersmühl was parish in the Protestant Church Puppen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today, on the Catholic side, Bystrz belongs to the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Spychowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the parish in Szczytno in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Bystrz is on a side road that branches off from state road 59 at Spychowo (Puppen) and leads to Kierwik (Kurwick , Kurwig from 1938 to 1945 ) and Koczek (Waldersee) . The nearest train station is Spychowo on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line.