Janowo (Powiat Nidzicki)

Janowo
	Janowo
	Janowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Nidzicki
Gmina :	Janowo
Geographic location :	53 ° 19 ′ N , 20 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ N , 20 ° 40 ′ 17 ″ E
Residents :	1040 (2011)
Postal code :	13-113
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NNI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Muszaki / ext. 604 - Zawady ↔ Stara Wieś - Krzynowłoga Mała / ext. 616
	Szczepkowo Borowe - Szczepkowo-Giewarty ↔ Ryki-Borkowo
Rail route :	Railway line Nidzica – Wielbark ; Railway station: Muszaki
Next international airport :	Danzig
	Warsaw
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Janowo is a village in the powiat Nidzicki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 2665 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

Geographical location

Janowo is located on the Orzyc (Orschütz River) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Nidzica (Neidenburg) is 17 kilometers to the northwest, the border with the Masovian Voivodeship is two kilometers southeast of the town.

history

The village of Janowo was probably founded in the 14th century, as there was a church there as early as 1374. In 1421 Janowo received city rights, which they lost in 1869. In 1526 the Duchy of Mazovia fell to the Kingdom of Poland , and Janowo attracted more and more attention with an annual market and three fairs a year. Sigismund I exempted the now third largest city in the Ciechanów region from tax payments for four years. In 1862 Janowo had 1616 inhabitants.

After a checkered history and frequent changes in membership of the administrations , Janowo is now a village in the powiat Nidzicki, until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 Janowo counted 1040 inhabitants as the official seat of Gmina Janowo.

Religions

Christianity

As early as 1374 there was a church in Janowo, the building of which today serves as a place of worship for the Roman Catholic denomination . It is dedicated to the namesake of the place John the Baptist . The parish belongs to the deanery Dzierzgowo in the diocese of Płock .

On the evangelical side, Janowo belongs to the parish in Róg ( German Roggen ), a branch parish of the parish in Nidzica (Neidenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Judaism

A Jewish cemetery , which was laid out in the 19th century, still exists in Janowo . There are no more funerals there.

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Janowo with an area of 191.6 km² includes the village itself and 14 other villages with school administration offices (sołectwa).

traffic

Janowo is located on a side street that connects Voivodeship Road 604 at Muszaki (Muschaken) with Voivodship Road 616 at Krzynowłoga Mała . A side road from Szczecpkowo Borowe to Ryki-Borkowo also runs through the village. The Nidzica – Wielbark railway line , to which Janowo is connected via the Muszaki railway station, is currently not used.

The closest airports are those in Gdansk and Warsaw , but they are very time-consuming to reach.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wieś Janowo w liczbach (Polish)
↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 368 (Polish)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Janowo

[wies-1] Wieś Janowo w liczbach (Polish)

[2] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 368 (Polish)

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