Drygały

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Drygały
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Drygały (Poland)
Drygały
Drygały
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '7 "  N , 22 ° 6' 25"  E
Height : 141 m npm
Residents : 1474 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 667 : ( Ełk -) Nowa Wieś Ełcka / DK 65 - Pogorzel Wielka ↔ Biała Piska / DK 58
1867N: Wierzbiny / DK 16 - Bemowo Piskie ↔ Dmusy - Skarżyn
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Drygały ( German  Drygallen , 1938–1945 Drigelsdorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Drygały is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 21 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

Aerial photo of Drygały from 2016

history

Which at the time Drigal after 1579 Drigallen and until 1938 Drygallen called village was founded in the 1436th Its founder was Martin Drygall which the Teutonic Knights 85 hooves got as facilities for the village mayor for settlement in the village that bore his name, assigned to farmland and eight hooves (= 10%).

In 1505 a nobleman Martinus Gutowski bought land in Drygallen and the surrounding area. His son Paul later took the name of Drygalski based on his residence in Drygallen . He was a Lutheran pastor at the Church of Drygallen , as was his son Martin after him. The Drygalski family appeared in Drygallen until the beginning of the 18th century, but then also in Lötzen ( Giżycko in Polish ) and in the East Prussian district of Angerburg .

The parish village of Drygallen was an important market town with a domain, later with sawmills and then also a chief forester, and since 1885 a train station. It was dominated by agriculture with mostly small farms on high-yielding soils. For the livestock industry, the village was known as a licensing area for cattle and pig breeding.

In 1874 Drygallen office Village was and thus its name to an office district, which - in 1938 District Drigelsdorf renamed - existed until 1945 and the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Drygały picture mosaic

In 1910 Drygallen had 1255 inhabitants, of which 1090 belonged to the rural community and 165 to the manor district.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Drygallen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Drygallen, 720 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On September 30, 1928, the Drygallen manor district was incorporated into the Drygallen rural community together with the Schlagamühle manor district. The number of inhabitants was 1611 in 1933 and in 1939 it was already 1799.

For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names, Drygallen was renamed Drigelsdorf on June 3, 1938 .

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Drigelsdorf was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name Drygały . Today the village 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 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria . In 2011 Drygały had 1,474 inhabitants.

District Drygallen / Drigelsdorf (1874–1945)

Religions

Church building

Today's church, dedicated to Our Lady of Częstochowa , was built between 1732 and 1734 under the architectural influence of Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt and was consecrated as a Protestant church on September 29, 1734 . The simply structured, plastered hall with a massive, recessed tower is probably the third church building in Drygallen. After 1945 the church building became the property of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , which adapted it structurally to the changed liturgical use.

Parish

As early as 1438 - i.e. in the pre-Reformation period - a church was mentioned in Drygallen.

Evangelical

The Reformation found its way into Drygallen early on . Lutheran clergy are mentioned here as early as the beginning of the 16th century. In 1925 the extensive parish had 4,400 parishioners. Until 1945 it was incorporated into the church district Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Flight and expulsion of the local population ended the life of the evangelical community in the village now called Drygały. The few Protestant residents now stick to the parish in Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) , a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 only very few Catholic church members lived in Drygallen resp. Drigelsdorf. After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled here, almost all of them without exception of Catholic denominations. A separate parish was established in Drygały, and the previously evangelical church became a Roman Catholic parish church in the Ełk diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland .

school

A school is said to have existed in Drygallen from around 1480, at that time maintained by the church. There was a school building in the 18th century; it burned down twice. In 1827 the school was divided into two classes, in 1882 three classes, and in 1898 250 schoolchildren were divided into four classes. In 1933 the school was finally seven-class, for which a new and appropriate school building was inaugurated on October 22, 1929.

traffic

Drygały is located on the provincial road 667 , which is important for traffic , which connects the two cities Ełk ( German  Lyck ) and Biała Piska as well as the two national roads DK 65 and DK 58 . In the center it crosses the 1867N (Droga powiatowa), which runs from Wierzbiny (Wiersbinnen , 1938–1945 Stollendorf) to Skarżyn (Skarzinnen , 1938–1945 Richtenberg) not far from the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship .

Since 1885 the place has been a train station on the Polish railway line leading from Olsztyn (Allenstein) to Ełk (Lyck) today .

Web links

Commons : Drygały  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 235
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Drigelsdorf
  3. ^ Drygallen / Drigelsdorf in Family Research Sczuka
  4. ↑ a b c d Drygały - Drygallen / Drigelsdorf at ostpreussen.net
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke: District Drigelsdorf
  6. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Johannisburg
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  10. ^ Wieś Drygały w liczbach
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 119, fig. 539.
  12. ↑ The house of God and the last clergy in the parish. In: EJ Guttzeit: The district of Johannisburg. Würzburg 1964, pp. 246-247.
  13. ^ Parafia Drygały in the Diocese of Ełk
  14. ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 31.
  15. ^ Parafia Drygały
  16. ↑ " District Road "