Gruzy

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Gruzy
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Gruzy (Poland)
Gruzy
Gruzy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 32 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '1 "  N , 21 ° 58' 20"  E
Residents : 28 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Biała Piska / DK 58 / ext. 667 - Kumielsk ↔ Grodzisko / DP 1882B: Okurowo - Żebry
Liski - Guzki ↔ Filipki Małe - Filipki Duże - Danowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Gruzy [ ˈɡruzɨ ] ( German  Gruhsen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Gruzy located in the southeast of the Warmia and Mazury , 1.5 kilometers north of the border between the provinces of Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie , the existing until 1939 here state border between the German Reich and Poland marked. It is 16 kilometers to the northwest to the district town of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ).

history

The once Gruseyn to 1579 Gruschen and in 1912 Grusen called village was in 1471 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut ten hooves founded. The village of Jeroschen ( Jerosze in Polish ) was included. Between 1874 and 1945, the rural community Gruhsen was in the District Symken (Polish Szymki ) integrated, the - the - in "District Simken" renamed in 1938 District Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Grusen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Grusen, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the Second World War , in 1945 all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland . This now also affected the village of Gruhsen, which received the Polish form of the name “Gruzy”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt and thus a village in the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population development

The number of inhabitants of Grusen or Gruhsen and Gruzy took - in a tabular overview - the following development:

year number Remarks
1818 153
1838 201
1871 207
1885 212
1895 262
1905 218
1910 197
1925 213
1933 181
1939 156
2011 28

Religions

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

Today the evangelical inhabitants of Gruzy orient themselves towards the parish in Biała Piska , a branch parish of the parish of Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, the place belongs to the parish Kumielsk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

Gruhsen became a school town in 1737.

traffic

Gruzy is located on a side road that leads from the town of Biała Piska via Kumielsk (Kumilsko , 1938 to 1945 morning) to Grodzisko (Grodzisko , 1932 to 1945 Burgdorf) and from there as county road (Polish: "Droga powiatowa") No. 1882B in the Podlaskie Voivodeship to Żebry . In addition, a side road runs from Liski (Lisken) via Guzki (Gusken) to Gruzy and then on to Danowo in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 343
  2. ↑ "Droga powiatowa"
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Gruhsen
  4. ↑ a b c Grusen / Gruhsen with Jeroschen in family research Sczuka
  5. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Symken / Simken
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 74
  7. ^ Sołectwa Gmina Biała Piska
  8. ↑ a b Grusen, Gruhsen at GenWiki
  9. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  10. ^ 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).
  11. ↑ Wieś Gruzy w liczbach
  12. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491