Jeglin

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Jeglin
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Jeglin (Poland)
Jeglin
Jeglin
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 40 ′  N , 21 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 12 "  N , 21 ° 47 ′ 45"  E
Residents : 98 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo - Giżycko - Orzysz ↔ Pisz - Kolno - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
Karwik → Jeglin
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Jeglin ( German  Jeglinnen , 1938 to 1945 Wagenau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural community Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Jeglin is located on the west bank of the Jeglinner Canal (1938 to 1945 Wagenauer Canal, Polish Jezioro Jegliński ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , five kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

Abandoned grave sites in the former evangelical cemetery in Jeglin
Memorial to those who died in the First World War

history

The small formerly also Jeglinen called village was in 1539 as a free village with three hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established. Between 1874 and 1945, which was rural community Jeglinnen in the District Snopken ( Polish Snopki ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Wait village" renamed - to circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 the number of inhabitants of Jeglinnen was 136, in 1933 it was 140.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Jeglinnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Jeglinnen, 80 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Jeglinnen was foreign-appearing place names in "Wagenau" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population in 1939 was 145.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Jeglinnen resp. Wagenau affected by it. It received the Polish form of the name "Jeglin" and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ). As such, it is now also a locality of the urban and rural municipality Pisz (Johannisburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Jeglin had a total of 98 inhabitants.

church

Before 1945, Jeglinnen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today the church belongs to the district town of Pisz again , whose parishes now belong to the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Jeglinnen became a school town in 1745.

Jeglinner Canal

The Karwik Lock (Słuza Karwik) on the Jegliński Canal

Jeglinnen is eponymous for a canal that was built between 1845 and 1849. The construction of this 5.25-kilometer-long waterway, known today as Kanał Jegliński and before 1945 Jeglinner or Wagenauer Kanal, came about on the initiative of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. It connects the Roschsee (also: Warschauer See, Polish Jezioro Roś) with the Sexter See (Polish Jezioro Seksty), a bulge of the Spirdingsee (Polish Jezioro Śniardwy). On its way the canal passes a lock at Karwik .

traffic

Jeglin is located on the Polish state road 63 , which is important in terms of traffic and connects the Polish-Russian and Polish-Belarusian borders for more than 400 kilometers and passes through four voivodships . There is no train connection. The canal's shipping route, which is not only used for tourist purposes, is not insignificant.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 388
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wagenau
  3. ↑ a b c Jeglinen / Jeglinnen - Wagenau in family research Sczuka
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, administrative district Snopken / Wartendorf
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (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. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  9. ↑ Jeglin in Polska w liczbach
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
  11. ↑ Spirdingsee, Teufelswerder, Wagenauer Canal at ostpreussen.net