Grądy (Orzysz)

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Grądy
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Grądy (Poland)
Grądy
Grądy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 50 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '32 "  N , 21 ° 58' 8"  E
Residents : 102 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Grądy Podmiejskie / DK 63 → Grądy
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service)
Railway station: Orzysz
Next international airport : Danzig



Grądy ( German  Gronden , 1938 to 1945 Grunden ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( urban and rural municipality Arys ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Grądy is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

In 1672 the Gronden estate was founded with a few farms. In 1874 the small town in was District Mykossen ( Polish Mikosze ) integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Arens Walde" - to 1945 and county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The Gutsbezirk Gronden counted in 1910 a total of 86 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, Gronden lost its independence and was incorporated into the municipality of Arys ( Orzysz in Polish ). On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Gronden was in "reasons" renamed and came in 1945 in consequence of the war with the city Arys and the entire southern East Prussia to Poland . The small place now bears the Polish form of the name "Grądy" and is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo), which also includes the neighboring village of Grądy Podmiejskie - until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Gronden was parish in the Protestant church Arys in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic church Arys in the diocese of Warmia .

The Catholic relationship between Grądys and Orzysz still exists today. However, the city is now part of the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Grądy is located east of the Polish state road 63 (former German state road 131 ) and can be reached directly from Grądy Podmiejskie . The next train station is Orzysz on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) line, which is no longer used regularly.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 334
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grunden
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Mykossen / Arens Walde
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ↑ Gmina Orzysz
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491