Końcewo

Końcewo
	Końcewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 21 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '1 "  N , 21 ° 39' 25"  E
Residents :	80 (2011)
Postal code :	12-220
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Wejsuny ↔ Głodowo / Niedźwiedzi Róg / Lipnik
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport :	Danzig

Końcewo ( German  Konzewen , 1938 to 1945 Warnold ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Ruciane-Nida ( urban and rural community Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

geography

The village, founded in 1758 and named Kontzewen after 1785, is located one and a half kilometers east of the Warnoldsee ( Jezioro Warnołty in Polish ) in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, twelve kilometers northwest of the district town of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German ).  

history

In 1874 the place came to the administrative district Snopken (Polish Snopki ), but was reclassified to the administrative district Weissuhnen (Polish Wejsuny ) before 1908 . In both cases, he was part of until 1945 existing circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 and 1928, the community of Konzewen expanded to include the neighboring Bärenwinkel (Polish Niedźwiedzui Róg ) and Glodowen (Polish Głodowo ), which were incorporated. The total population was 324 in 1910 and 371 in 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Konzewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Konzewen, 220 inhabitants voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-appearing place names Konzwen was on June 3 (officially certified on 16 July) 1938 in "Warnold" renamed . The population rose to 373 by 1939. Until 1945 the village was parish in the Protestant village church of Groß Weissuhnen in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

When in 1945 all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland as a result of the war , Konzewen (Warnold) was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name "Końcewo" and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwa ). As such, the village is part of the urban and rural community Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 Końcewo had 80 inhabitants.

Religions

On the Protestant side, the village is oriented towards the Wejsuny village church in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and on the Catholic side towards the parish church in Pisz in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

The nearest train station is Ruciane-Nida and is on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line . A side road runs through the village, which connects Wejsuny ((Groß) Weissuhnen) with Głodowo (Glodowen 1935 to 1945 Spirdingshöhe) , Niedźwiedzi Róg (Bärenwinkel) and Lipnik (Lipnik , 1938 to 1945 Falkenhöhe) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 505
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Warnold
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Snopken / Waiting village
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Weissuhnen district
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. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 75
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
9. ↑ Wykaz sołtysów gminy Ruciane-Nida ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Wieś Końcewo w liczbach