Guja (Węgorzewo)

Guja
	Guja
	Guja
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 16 ' N , 21 ° 36' E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '57 " N , 21 ° 35' 30" E
Residents :	240 (2006)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Prynowo - ↔ Bajory Małe - Brzeźnica
	Pasternak ↔ Rydzówka Mała
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Guja ( German Groß Guja ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

The Sandhof lock near Guja (Groß Guja)

The Sandhof roller weir near Guja

Geographical location

Guja is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , north of the Rehsauer See ( Jezioro Rydzówka in Polish ) and east of the Masurian Canal (Kanał Mazurski). It is ten kilometers to the south-east to the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The village, then called Goye, has been mentioned since 1384 . In the following time the place was also called Goya and Groß Guga (after 1818), then until 1945 Groß Guja . On May 6, 1874 United Guja office Village and thus its name to a new administrative district that existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Groß Guja had 255 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the place expanded to include the neighboring villages of Klein Guja (today only the included town of Neu Guja (Nowa Guja) exists) and Klein Dombrowken (1938 to 1945 Dammfelde, Dąbrówka Mała in Polish). The number of inhabitants rose to 451 by 1933 and was still 447 in 1939.

In 1945 United Guja was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish name form Guja . The previously were included in the local area Sandhof ( Polish Rydzówka Mała ) in the rural community Rehsau associated (Rydzówka) Structures on Masurian channel (Polish Kanał Mazurski): the lock (Polish Śluza Piaski) and the rolling weir (Jaz walcowy Piaski).

Today Guja is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo), into which Guja and Nowa Guja (New Guja) are also incorporated. As such, Guja is part of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Guja District (1874–1945)

The administrative district of Guja, newly established in 1874, was initially formed from eight villages. In the end there were only three:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Biedaschken	Wieskoppen	Biedaszki
Big Guja		Guja
Great Wessolowen	Raudensee	Wesołowo
Small Dombrowken	Dammfelde	Dąbrówka Mała	1928 incorporated into Groß Guja
Little Guja			1928 incorporated into Groß Guja
Klein Wessolowen			Incorporated into Leopoldshof in 1891
Leopoldshof		Wesołowko	1928 incorporated into Biedaschken
New Guja		Nowa Guja	1910 incorporated into Klein Guja

On January 1, 1945, only the three communities Groß Guja, Raudensee and Wieskoppen belonged to the district of Guja.

Religions

Grave site in the old evangelical cemetery in Guja (Groß Guja)

Until 1945 Groß Guja was on the one hand in the Evangelical Church Engelstein in the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , on the other hand in the Catholic parish church Zum Guten Hirten in Angerburg in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the former Diocese of Warmia as a parish. The old Protestant cemetery (in Polish: Cmentarz ewangelicki) still exists today, on which - despite massive overgrowth - some grave sites can still be seen.

Today, on the Catholic side, Guja belongs to the parish church of St. Josef in Węgielsztyn in the deanery of Węgorzewo in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , on the Protestant side to the parish in Węgorzewo , a branch of the parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Evangelical-Augsburg diocese of Mazury Church in Poland .

traffic

Guja is located on a side street that joins the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Prynowo (Prinowen , 1938 to 1945 Primsdorf) and Brzozowo (Brosowen , 1938 to 1945 Hartenstein) with Bajory Małe (Klein Bajohren , 1938 to 1945 Kleinblankenfelde) and Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) directly on the Polish-Russian border . It is crossed by another side road in Guja, which leads from Pasternak (Waldhof) to Rydzówka Mała (Sandhof) .

There is no rail link.

Web links

Commons : Guja - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Groß Guja
↑ ^a ^b Rolf Jehke, Guja District
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476

[1] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Groß Guja

[Jehke-2] Rolf Jehke, Guja District

[3] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg

[4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[5] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476