Bzury (Prostki)

Bzury
	Bzury
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '35 "  N , 22 ° 13' 1"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Olszewo / 1921N → Bzury
	Rożyńsk Wielki / 1678N u. 1921N → Bzury
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Bzury ( German  Bzurren , 1938-1945 Surren ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Bzury is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 29 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) and 16 kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Ełk ( Lyck in German ).  

history

In 1528 the village called Bzuren after 1579 and Bzurren until 1938 was founded. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Monethen ( Polish Monety ) integrated, the for loop Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein of) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910, 157 residents were registered in Bzurren, in 1933 there were 153.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Bzurren belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Bzurren, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Bzurren was foreign-sounding place names from political and ideological reasons of defense whirring renamed . The population was still 134 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Bzury . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the community of Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Bzurren was parish in the Evangelical Church Groß Rosinsko (1938-1945 Großrosen , Polish Rożyńsk Wielki ) in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Bzury belongs to the Catholic parish in Rożyńsk Wielki in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parishes in Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) and in Ełk (Lyck) , both sub- parishes of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Bzury is completely away from the main traffic and can be reached via side streets from Olszewo (Olschewen , 1938–1945 Kronfelde) and Rożyńsk Wielki (Groß Rosinsko , 1938–1945 Großrosen) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 136
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Surren
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Monethen
4. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Johannisburg
5. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.