Lesiny Wielkie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lesiny Wielkie
Lesiny Wielkie does not have a coat of arms
Lesiny Wielkie (Poland)
Lesiny Wielkie
Lesiny Wielkie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Wielbark
Geographic location : 53 ° 23 '  N , 21 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '2 "  N , 21 ° 7' 48"  E
Residents : 146 (2011)
Postal code : 12-160
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Olędry ↔ Rutkowo
Zieliec → Lesiny Wielkie
Księży Lasek → Lesiny Wielkie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Lesiny Wielkie ( German  Groß Leschienen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Wielbark (city and rural community Willenberg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Lesiny Wielkie is not far from the former German-Polish state border (today: Warmia-Masuria voivodship border - Masovia ) in the southern center of the Warmia-Masuria voivodeship , 22 kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

history

In the June 16, 1684 for Leschienen issued founding Tangible states, "... was Christoph Sobotka from Sendrowen a place burned and hewn wilderness country, the Leschien called - ... prescribed to Schatullrechten". In 1767 it is reported that the farmers' economy suffered greatly from the lack of meadows and pastureland. The separation resulted in an increase in the number of owners in the village and a more intensive use of the external blows. A significant economic upturn did not begin until the 1920s.

Groß Leschienen was incorporated into the Fürstenwalde district ( Polish: Księży Lasek ) from 1874 to 1945 , which belonged to the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg .

In 1910 there were 428 residents registered in Groß Leschienen. Their number dropped to 378 by 1933 and totaled 409 in 1939.

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 Groß Leschienen, 283 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland received 21 votes.

Due to its proximity to the border, there was a customs house in Groß Leschienen until 1945 .

As a result of the war, the place was transferred to Poland in 1945 along with the whole of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name "Lesiny Wielkie". With the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ), the village is now part of the municipal and rural community of Wielbark (Willenberg) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Lesiny Wielkie had 146 inhabitants.

church

Evangelical

The vast majority of the Masurian population has been of the Lutheran denomination since the Reformation . Half of the inhabitants of Groß Leschienen belonged to the Protestant and the other half to the Catholic Church. Until 1945 the village belonged to the parish of Fürstenwalde (Polish: Księży Lasek ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the Protestant church members are oriented towards the church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

The Church of the Conception of Mary in Lesiny Wielkie

The first and now also the oldest Catholic church in Masuria is said to be in Groß Leschienen . On October 7, 1859, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was consecrated. Parish rights have existed for the place since April 19, 1856. Between 1854 and 1856 Valentin Tolksdorf ( Polish: Walenty Tolsdorf ) was the parish administrator in Groß Leschienen and was active in missionary and social charity here as in the southeastern Ortelsburg district . The building of the church is due to him. The bell he donated for the church was named "Valentinus" in his honor, in Masuria he had the popular name "Apostle of Masuria" or "Patriarch of Masuria".

The parish Groß Leschienen belonged to the deanery Masuria I with its seat in Angerburg (Polish Węgorzewo ) within the Diocese of Warmia until 1945 . According to Tolksdorf, there were pastors here until 1945:

  • Joseph Jordan, 1856–1863
  • Joseph Neuber, 1863–1871
  • Joseph Temma, 1871–1882
  • Viktor Warkowski, 1882–1886
  • Joseph Jablonski, 1886–1891
  • Eugen Kanigowski, 1891–1899
  • Otto Langkau, 1899–1913
  • Joseph Piezocha, 1913–1923
  • Karl Barwinski, 1923-1935
  • Albert Zink, 1925-1945

The following parishes were incorporated into Groß Leschienen until 1945:

Today the parish of Lesiny Wielkie with the branch church in Księży Lasek (Fürstenwalde) belongs to the deanery Rozogi (Friedrichshof) in the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

In Groß Leschienen there was a Protestant and a Catholic village school. On August 31, 1943, both schools were merged. The teaching building was the previous Protestant school and later the primary school. The Catholic school - it was built near the church in 1906 - has an arcade portal and has been rebuilt several times. The building is now a residential building.

traffic

Lesiny Wielkie is located on a side road that leads from Olędry (Wagenfeld) to Rutkowo in the Masovian Voivodeship . In addition, border roads from the nearby towns Zieleniec (Radzienen / hill forest) and Księży Lasek (Fürstenwalde) in Lesiny Wielkie. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Personalities

  • Valentin Tolksdorf ( Polish Walenty Tolsdorf ) (1816–1905), Catholic pastor, was administrator of the Catholic parish of Groß Leschienen from 1854 to 1856 and achieved the title of "Apostle of the Masurians" or "Patriarch of Masuria" due to his missionary activities among the people.

Web links

Commons : Lesiny Wielkie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Lesiny Wielkie w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 646
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Groß Leschienen
  4. ↑ a b c d e Groß Leschienen at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Fürstenwalde district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ 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. 94
  9. ↑ a b c Groß Leschienen, Maria immaculate conception at GenWiki
  10. ↑ The parish Lesiny Wielkie the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia