Grzegorze

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Grzegorze
Grzegorze does not have a coat of arms
Grzegorze (Poland)
Grzegorze
Grzegorze
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 21 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '58 "  N , 21 ° 53' 52"  E
Residents : 261 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - MikołajkiOrzysz - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Mikosze-Osada → Grzegorze
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service)
Railway station: Orzysz
Next international airport : Danzig



Grzegorze ( German  Gregersdorf ) is a 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

Grzegorze is located in the southeastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 20 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Gregorsdorff was founded in 1437 - after 1656 Gregerßdorff , after 1818 Grögersdorf . Between 1874 and 1945 the village in was District Mykossen ( Polish Mikosze ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Arens Walde" renamed - to circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 274 inhabitants registered in Gregersdorf. Their number rose to 306 by 1933 and decreased to 262 by 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gregersdorf belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Gregersdorf, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Grzegorze". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of the city ​​and rural community Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

Until 1945 Gregersdorf was parish in the Evangelical Church Eckersberg ( Polish Okartowo ) in the church province of 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, on the Catholic side, Grzegorze belongs to the parish Okartowo in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Fallen memorial

German monument to the fallen in Grzegorze

A memorial for German soldiers has been preserved in Gregorze. It dates from 1920 and commemorates those who fell in the First World War .

traffic

Grzegorze is located on the Polish state road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ), which is important in terms of traffic and runs through the three voivodeships of Kuyavian-Pomerania , Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie in an east-west direction . In addition, a land road coming from Mikosze-Osada ends in Grzegorze.

The next train station is Okartowo ( German  Eckersberg ) on the - although no longer regularly used - railway line Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ).

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. 344
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gregersdorf
  4. Rolf Jehke, District Mykossen / Arens Walde
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ 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).
  7. 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
  8. Gmina Orzysz
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
  10. war memorial in Grzegorze / Gregersdorf