Grądy Węgorzewskie

Grądy Węgorzewskie
	Grądy Węgorzewskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Budry
Geographic location :	54 ° 15 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '46 "  N , 21 ° 54' 34"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 650 : Węgorzewo - Budry ↔ Gołdap
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Grądy Węgorzewskie ( German  Gronden ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Grądy Węgorzewskie is located on the west bank of the Goldap ( Polish Gołdapa ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is twelve kilometers to the south-west.

history

The formerly also called Grandt , Grande , Granden , Neugranden before 1785 and Gronden until 1945, developed into a large estate by the 19th century. It was founded in 1562. Between 1874 and 1945 Gronden was in the District Buddern ( Polish Budry ) included the for loop Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Gronden had 242 inhabitants, 102 of whom lived in the rural municipality and 140 in the manor district . In 1925 the total number of inhabitants was 195. On September 30, 1928, the rural municipality of Gronden, the manor district of Gronden and the rural municipality of Grondischken ( Grądyszki in Polish , no longer existent) merged to form the new rural municipality of Gronden, which totaled 244 in 1933 and 367 in 1939 Residents had.

As a result of the war, Gronden came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has been called "Grądy Węgorzewskie" ever since. The place is now part of the rural community Budry in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The predominantly Protestant population of Grondens was parish in the church of Buddern in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union before 1945 , while the Catholic church members oriented themselves to the church of Zum Guten Hirten Angerburg in the diocese of Warmia .

Today there are almost exclusively Catholic residents in Grądy Węgorzewskie who belong to the parish of the Trinity Church in Budry in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are assigned to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch parish of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Grądy Węgorzewskie is conveniently located on the Polish voivodship road DW 650 (former German Reichsstrasse 136 ), which connects the district towns of Węgorzewo and Gołdap (Goldap) and also touches the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ). There is no longer a rail link since the Angerburg – Goldap line was no longer in operation after the Second World War .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 334
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gronden
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Buddern District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
5. ^ ^{A b} 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). 
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476