Leginy (Reszel)

Leginy
	Leginy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Reszel
Geographic location :	54 ° 0 '  N , 21 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '46 "  N , 21 ° 8' 12"  E
Residents :	326 (2011)
Postal code :	11-440
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Łabędziewo / ext. 590 ↔ Samławki / ext. 596
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Leginy ( German  Legienen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is part of the urban and rural community Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

geography

Leginy is located in northeastern Poland, about 40 kilometers south of Poland's state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . South of Leginy is Lake Legien ( Jezioro Legińskie in Polish ), one of the largest lakes in the Gmina Reszel.

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history

A first village on the site of today's Leginy was founded in 1346. Shortly after the installation, however, the village became desolate again . Around 1350 Johann Stryprock (later Bishop of Warmia Johann II. Stryprock ) bought the land and enlarged it from 35 to 50 Włóka . On June 16, 1359, Johann von der Krempe acquired the land with the condition that the area be settled. At the beginning of the 15th century the village became the property of the Oelsen or Ulsen family .

On July 9, 1874, Legienen became an official village and gave its name to an administrative district . He belonged to the district of Rößel in the administrative district of Königsberg (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Legienen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On October 17, 1928, the Legienen manor was incorporated into the rural community Labendzowo ( Polish Łabędziewo ) in the district of Klawsdorf (Polish Klewno ). At the same time, the rural community Labendzowo was renamed "Legienen" and the Legienen district was dissolved. On March 11, 1930, Legienen was reclassified from the Klawsdorf district to the Loszainen district ( Łężany in Polish ).

In January 1945 the Red Army marched into the area and as a result of the Second World War the village became part of Poland. In 1945 Leginy became the seat of a municipality , which was dissolved again in the same year. Until 1973 the village was part of the Gromada Samławki . After the dissolution of the Gromadas it was part of the urban and rural community Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Leginy is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ). In 2011 the village had 326 inhabitants

Population development

At the end of the 18th century there were 25 buildings in the village, including the associated Vorwerk . 17 houses were counted in 1820, the Vorwerk no longer existed. The following shows the population development of the village.

church

The Church of St. Maria Magdalena

In 1404 a church in Legienen was mentioned for the first time. In 1824 the church was rebuilt. Construction manager Sadrozinski from Rößel was in charge of the construction . He had a brick building built on a field stone foundation. A church tower was not built until 1919. The church is a Catholic church and dedicated to Mary Magdalene . In 1975 the church was extensively renovated. The Catholic parish in Leginy belongs to the Deanery Reszel in the Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Roman Catholic Church .

Before 1945, Legienen belonged to the Protestant parish of the church in Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The next Protestant church today is the church in Warpuny (Warpuhnen) or the parish church in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . Both belong to the diocese of Masuria in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The primary school was reopened on December 1, 1945. In 1976 there was an eight-grade school in the village.

traffic

Leginy is just under one kilometer west of Voivodship Road 590 (here in the section of the former German Reichsstrasse 141 ), which crosses Reszel in a northerly direction after about five kilometers. In a southerly direction, the road ends after about 20 kilometers in Biskupiec (Bishop's Castle) .

The next train stations are to the north in Korsze (Korschen) and northeast in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . Both are about 20 kilometers away from Leginy and offer direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Poznan and Ełk (Lyck) .

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport (Koenigsberg) , located about 100 kilometers northwest on Russian territory, on Polish territory it is Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport, about 180 kilometers west .

literature

• Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 200-201 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

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

• Presentation on ostpreussen.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 641
2. ^ Website of the municipality, "geografia - Wody i lasy" , accessed on May 10, 2008
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Legienen / Loszainen district
4. ↑ 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. 108
5. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Klawsdorf
6. ↑ Wieś Leginy w liczbach
7. ↑ For 1820, 1848, 1933 and 1939; Swat 1978, p. 200
8. ↑ Legyny - Legienen at ostpreussen.net
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490