Janowo (Szczytno)

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Janowo
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Janowo (Poland)
Janowo
Janowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 34 '  N , 20 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '9 "  N , 20 ° 54' 7"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 58 : Olsztynek - Jedwabno ↔ Szczytno - Pisz - Biała Piska - Szczuczyn
Sędańsk → Janowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Janowo ( German  Johannisthal ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Janowo is located on the southern bank of the Johannisthaler Mühlenteich ( Polish Młyński Staw , also Janówek , Janowski Staw ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is six kilometers to the east to the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

The Młyński Staw near Janowo (Johannisthaler Mühlenteich)

history

On July 24, 1820, a certain bought Zenke in the hitherto Janowo "on the hunting of that place Corpeller Forst's a water mill with two courses". Zenke built a paper mill with a vat and a cutting mill there . The mill was still in his possession in 1848. Later owners were Joseph Kupzik and Otto Kupzik .

In 1874 Johannisthal was included in the newly established Corpellen district (1928 to 1945 Korpellen , in Polish Korpele ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . In 1908, a small part of the Johannisthal manor district, which then had 22 inhabitants, was incorporated into the Corpellen manor district, the rest of the village became part of the rural community of Seedanzig (Polish : Sędańsk ) on April 1, 1931 .

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in the war in 1945 , Johannisthal was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Janowo" and is now a village within the rural municipality of Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Johannisthal was parish in the Protestant Church of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Janowo, like Johannisthal at the time, belongs to the Protestant parish of Szczytno , now located in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic Church Szczytno in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Janowo is located on the national road 58 , which is important for traffic , which leads from Olsztynek (Hohenstein) through the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the Masovian Voivodeship . Janowo is also connected to the neighboring town of Sędańsk (Seedanzig) via a side road. There is no connection to rail traffic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 368
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Johannisthal
  3. ↑ a b Seedanzig at the Ortelsburg district community
  4. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Corpellen / Korpellen district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497