Grodzisko (Biała Piska)

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Grodzisko
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Grodzisko (Poland)
Grodzisko
Grodzisko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '39 "  N , 21 ° 57' 9"  E
Residents : 22 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Biała Piska / DK 58 / ext. 667 - Kumielsk - Gruzy ↔ DP 1882B - Okurowo - Żebry
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Grodzisko [ ɡrɔˈd͡ʑiskɔ ] ( German  Grodzisko , 1932 to 1945 Burgdorf ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and rural community of Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Piski powiat ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Grodzisko is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , right on the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship - once the state border between the German Empire and Poland . It is 16 kilometers to the northwest to the district town of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ).

history

Place name

Numerous forms of name have been passed down for the small town in its more than 500-year history: Grodihsky (after 1483), Okurowen (around 1492), Okurowsken (after 1492), Grodischken (around 1540), Grudischke (after 1540), Grozitzen (around 1579), Grozisko (after 1871), Grodzisko (until 1932), Burgdorf (1932 to 1945) and again Grodzisko (after 1945).

Local history

Grodzisko was founded in 1476 by the German Order of Knights as a freehold with 21 hooves . Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Symken ( Polish Szymki ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Simken" renamed - to circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On December 1, 1910, Grodzisko had 158 inhabitants.

On October 8, 1932, Grodzisko was renamed "Burgdorf". The population was 146 in 1933 and 137 in 1939.

Burgdorf was also affected by the transfer of all of southern East Prussia to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war. It was given the Polish form of the name "Grodzisko", identical to the place name before 1932. Today, the small place is part of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ) until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 the population was 22.

Religions

Before 1945, Grodzisko was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kumilsko (1938 to 1945 Morgen , in Polish Kumielsk ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Grodzisko belongs to the parish Kumielsk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Biała Piska , a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Grodzisko has been a school town since 1856.

traffic

Grodzisko is located on a side road that leads from Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) to Gruzy (Gruhsen) and then as a county road ( Polish Droga powiatowa ) 1882B in the Podlaskie Voivodeship to Żebry . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 341
  2. ↑ "Droga powiatowa"
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Burgdorf
  4. ↑ a b c Grodzisko / Burgdorf at Family Research Sczuka
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Symken / Simken district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Wieś Grodzisko w liczbach
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491