Grądy (Dźwierzuty)

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Grądy
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Grądy (Poland)
Grądy
Grądy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Dźwierzuty
Geographic location : 53 ° 44 '  N , 21 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '2 "  N , 21 ° 5' 44"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 12-120
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Śledzie / ext. 600 → Grądy
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Grądy ( German  Gronden ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to Gmina Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Grądy is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 20 kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

Entrance to Grądy

history

The small Gutsort Gronden in 1874 in the newly built office district Przytullen ( Polish Przytuły ) integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Steinhöhe" - to 1945 and the East Prussian district Szczytno belonged. In 1910 Gronden had 48 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gronden belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Gronden, 47 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On September 30, 1928, the Gronden manor district gave up its independence and merged with the neighboring Przytullen and Rogallen manor districts to form the rural community of Rogallen (1938 to 1945 Rogenau , Polish: Rogale ).

1945 came Gronden in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Grądy". Today it is a hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) with the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) within the rural community Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

crossroads

Until 1945 Gronden was parish in the Protestant Church of Rheinswein in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Mensguth in the then diocese of Ermland .

Today, on the Catholic side, Grądy belongs to the church in Rybno (Ribben) in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia , as well as to the Evangelical Church of Rańsk , a branch church of the Szczytno (Ortelsburg) parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Grądy is to the west of Voivodship Road 600 and can be reached directly via a junction at Śledzie (Heering) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 334
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gronden
  3. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Przytullen / Steinhöhe district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  5. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 94
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
  7. ^ Catholic parish Mensguth at GenWiki