Mącice

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Mącice
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Mącice (Poland)
Mącice
Mącice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Mazovia
Powiat : Przasnysz
Gmina : Chorus cele
Geographic location : 53 ° 19 '  N , 20 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '24 "  N , 20 ° 59' 3"  E
Residents : 255 (2011)
Postal code : 06-333
Telephone code : (+48) 29
License plate : WPZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Wielbark / DK 57Zaręby / ext. 614
Opaleniec / DK 57 → Mącice
Ścięciel → Mącice
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Warsaw



Mącice ( German  Montwitz ) is a village in the Polish Masovian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural municipality Chorzele in the powiat Przasnyski .

Geographical location

Mącice is located in the north of the Masovian Voivodeship , 27 kilometers south of the former district town of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno in Polish ) and 35 kilometers northwest of today's district metropolis Przasnysz . Until 1945 the German-Polish border ran 1 kilometer south of the village.

history

Montwitz was founded by Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia , who on April 4, 1571, issued the founding hand-held . In 1874, the rural community of Montwitz was incorporated into the newly established district of Groß Piwnitz ( Polish: Piwnice Wielkie ), which - renamed "District of Großalbrechtsort" in 1938 - until 1945 belonged to the Ortelsburg district .

In 1910, 586 inhabitants were registered in Montwitz. Their number was 556 in 1933 and 527 in 1939.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Montwitz was also affected. The village was given the Polish form of the name "Mącice" and is now part of the municipality of Chorzele in the powiat Przasnyski , until 1998 of the Ostrołęka Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The number of inhabitants in Mącice in 2011 was 255.

church

Until 1945, Montwitz was ecclesiastically aligned with Flammberg (until 1904 Opalenietz ): to the Protestant church there in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Roman Catholic St. Joseph Church, which was part of the diocese of Warmia at the time. The connection between Mącice and the Catholic Church Opaleniec continues. Only the Protestant residents, whose church building no longer exists, now belong to the church in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The former village school in Montwitz was founded by King Friedrich Wilhelm I.

traffic

Mącice is located east of the Polish state road 57 (formerly German Reichsstraße 128 ) and can be reached via the branches in Wielbark (Willenberg) and Opaleniec (Flammberg) . From the neighboring town of Ścięciel (Czenczel , 1928 to 1945 Rodefeld) there is also a side street leading to the town. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wieś Mącice w liczbach
  2. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 770
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Montwitz
  4. a b Mont wit in Kreisgemeinschaft Ortelsburg
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495