Pozezdrze
| Pozezdrze also: Kolonia Pozezdrze |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Poland | |
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
| Powiat : | Węgorzewo | |
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 9 ' N , 21 ° 52' E | |
| Height : | 134 m npm | |
| Residents : | 1297 (2009) | |
| Postal code : | 11-610 | |
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | |
| License plate : | NWE | |
| Economy and Transport | ||
| Street : | DK 63 : Perły - Węgorzewo ↔ Giżycko - Pisz - Łomża - Sławatycze / Belarus | |
| Silec - Kamionek Wielki - Sztynort → Pozezdrze | ||
| Kuty - Przytuły → Pozezdrze | ||
| Rail route : | Angerburg – Lötzen railway line (closed in 1945) | |
| Next international airport : | Danzig | |
| Gmina | ||
| Gminatype: | Rural community | |
| Gmina structure: | 19 localities | |
| 14 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 177.30 km² | |
| Residents: | 3257 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 18 inhabitants / km² | |
| Community number ( GUS ): | 2819022 | |
| administration | ||
| Mayor : | Marzenna Jolanta Supranowicz | |
| Address: | ul. 1 Maja 1a 11-610 Pozezdrze |
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| Website : | www.pozezdrze.pl | |
Pozezdrze ( German Possessern , 1938-1945 Großgarten ) with the settlement Kolonia Pozezdrze to the south is a village and a rural municipality in Poland , which is in the powiat Węgorzewski (district of Angerburg ) in the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
location
Pozezdrze is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the west of the Jezioro Pozezdrze (Possessern Lake , 1938 to 1945 Großgartener Lake) . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) can be reached in 12 kilometers in a north-westerly direction.
history
The village called Groß Garten at the time was founded in 1543. In subsequent years, Passe springs (after 1774) or Posseesern (after 1785) and Poss eaters called (until 1945), it was 1,874 office Village on May 6, thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen of belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .
The population of the village increased continuously from 1910. While 1296 inhabitants were registered there in 1910, their number rose to 1444 by 1925, to 1510 by 1933 and was 1550 in 1939.
On June 3, 1938, Possessern was renamed "Großgarten" for political and ideological reasons to ward off foreign-sounding place names. In 1945 the place came with the whole of southern East Prussia as a consequence of the war to Poland and has since been called "Pozezdrze". The village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the rural community Pozezdrze, which is also located there. It belongs to the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 to the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
District Possessern / Großgarten (1874–1945)
At the time of its existence, two communities belonged to the Possessern district (1939 to 1945: Großgarten district):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| Pietzarken |
from 1931: Bergensee |
Pieczarki |
| Possessers | Large garden | Pozezdrze |
religion
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Church building
In 1887 the possessers at that time became a church village . The newly built brick church was consecrated five years later . Protestant until 1945 , it has served the Catholic Church as a worship center since 1946 , which is also open to Protestant worship services.
Parish
From 1887 to 1945 there was a Protestant community in Possessern (Großgarten), which belonged to the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it had more than 2,900 parishioners. After the Second World War and the establishment of many Polish and Catholic people Pozezdrze was a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland within the existing since 1992 Diocese of Elk (Lyck) . The few Protestant residents living there are looked after by the Giżycko (Lötzen) parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Field command post Hochwald
The bunkered Hochwald field command post for Heinrich Himmler was built near Possessern . It existed from 1941 to 1945 when the facilities were blown up by the approaching Red Army .
Son of the village
- Arthur Gramberg (1862–1917), General Director of the East Prussian Land Society
Gmina Pozezdrze
The rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) Pozezdrze covers an area of 177.3 km², which is 25.57% of the area of the powiat Węgorzewski to which it belongs. 48% of the community area is cultivated as arable land, 27% as forest.
Neighboring communities are:
- the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and the rural communities of Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) and Budry (Buddern) , all in the powiat Węgorzewski,
- the rural communities Giżycko (Lötzen) and Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki .
Community structure
The rural municipality of Pozezdrze includes 14 districts ( German names officially until 1945 ) with a Schulzenamt ( sołectwo ) :
- Gębałka ( painted beams )
- Harsz ( Haarszen , 1936–1945 Haarschen )
- Jakunówko ( Jakunowken , 1938–1945 Jakunen )
- Kolonia Pozezdrze
- Krzywińskie ( Krzywinsken , 1927–1945 Sonnheim )
- Kuty ( Kutten )
- Pieczarki ( Pietzarken , 1931–1945 Bergensee )
- Piłaki Wielkie ( Groß Pillacken , 1923–1945 Steinwalde )
- Pozezdrze ( possessers , 1938–1945 large garden )
- Przerwanki ( Wiesental )
- Przytuły ( Przytullen , 1938–1945 cabins )
- Radziszewo ( Karlsfelde )
- Stręgielek ( Little Strangles )
- Wyłudy ( Willudden , 1938–1945 Andreastal )
Other localities in the municipality are Okowizna ( Numeiten ), Dziaduszyn ( Charlottenhof ), Nowy Harsz ( Neu Haarszen , 1936–1945 Neu Haarschen ), Sapieniec ( Karlsberg ) and Wilkus ( Wilkusmühle ).
traffic
Pozezdrze is conveniently located on the Polish state road DK 63 (section of the former German Reichsstraße 131 ), which runs through Giżycko (Lötzen) , Pisz (Johannisburg) , Łomża and Siedlce and the Polish-Russian state border at Perły (Pearl Forest) and Krylowo (Nordenburg) ) connects with the Polish-Belarusian border at Sławatycze . The individual localities in the municipality are mostly connected to the central town and to each other by well-developed side roads and country roads.
There is no longer a rail connection for Pozezdrze. Between 1905 and 1945 Possessern (Großgarten) was a train station on the Angerburg – Lötzen railway line , but operations on the section between Angerburg and Kruglanken were discontinued due to the war.
The nearest Lech Walesa Airport in Gdańsk can be reached on national and voivodeship roads.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 958
- ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Großgarten (2005)
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke: District Possessern / Großgarten
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Angerburg
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 88
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477
- ↑ There is no border crossing, but it has been configured