Duje (Barciany)

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Duje
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Duje (Poland)
Duje
Duje
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 20 '  N , 21 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '48 "  N , 21 ° 21' 58"  E
Residents : 46 (2011)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Mołtajny - Górki → Duje
Asuny → Duje
Kurkławki → Duje
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Duje ( German  Doyen , 1938 to 1945 Dugen ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Barciany (rural community Barten ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Duje is located directly on the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (Königsberg region (Prussia)) in the northern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (now in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 27 kilometers north of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

Entrance to Duje
Agricultural property in Duje

history

Doyen was originally a small village with several small farms and farms. In 1874, the rural community in the newly built was District Kanoten ( Polish Kanoty ) integrated, which the county Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Doyen had 138 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928 Doyen gave up his independence and merged with the manor districts Kanoten (Polish Kanoty ), Posegnick (Russian Sori ) and Korklack (Polish Kurkławki ) to form the new rural community Posegnick. On June 3 (officially on July 16) 1938, Doyen was renamed "Dugen" for political and ideological reasons to prevent foreign-language sounding place names.

In war-induced Dugen 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland . The dividing line to northern East Prussia, which came to Russia , was drawn only a few hundred meters . Dugen received the Polish form of the name "Duje" and is now a place in the community of Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Duje had 46 inhabitants.

church

Wayside shrine in Duje

Until 1945 Doyen was tesp. Dugen parish in the Protestant Church of Molthainen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Insterburg (today in Russian Chernyachovsk ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Duje belongs to the parish of St. Anna Mołtajny in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the parish Barciany , a branch of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn (German Rastenburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Due to its border location, Duje can only be reached via partly impassable roads from the neighboring towns of Mołtajny (Molthainen , Molteinen from 1938 to 1945 ) , Asuny (Assaunen) and Kurkławki (cork lacquer) . There is no train connection.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 237
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Dugen
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Kanoten / Posegnick district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Gerdauen
  5. ↑ a b Doyen / Dugen at GenWiki
  6. ^ Wieś Duje w liczbach
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458