Mażany
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Kętrzyn | |
Gmina : | Kętrzyn | |
Geographic location : | 54 ° 6 ' N , 21 ° 31' E | |
Height : | 126 m npm | |
Residents : | ||
Postal code : | 11-400 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | |
License plate : | NKE | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Siniec / ext. 650 - Dolny Siniec ↔ Jankowo - Parcz | |
Rail route : | no rail connection | |
Next international airport : | Danzig |
Mażany ( German Masehnen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural municipality of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).
Geographical location
Mażany is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, southeast of the Lazy Lake ( Jezioro Mażański in Polish ). The former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 20 kilometers to the northeast, while today's district metropolis Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) is ten kilometers to the southwest.
history
In 1392 the village of Masehnen came into being, on the north-western edge of which the Gut Masehnen was built in 1496. In 1773 the noble and köllmischen Hufen were divided in a special separation and the estate and the village were separated into separate administrative units.
When the neighboring Rosengarten (Polish: Radzieje) became an official village in 1874 , the village and the Masehnen manor district came into its administrative district. He belonged to the circle Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .
292 inhabitants were registered in Masehnen in 1910, of which 217 lived in the village and 75 in the manor district. In 1925 the total number of inhabitants was 315. On September 30, 1928, the rural communities Grieslack ( Polish: Gryzławki ) and Masehnen merged with the manor district Masehnen to form the new rural community Masehnen. The population of the newly formed administrative unit was 419 in 1933 and 375 in 1939.
1945 Masehnen was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Mazany". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo), which also includes the neighboring villages of Gryzławki (Grieslack) , Jankowo (Jankendorf) , Parcz (Partsch) and Suchodoły (Friedental) . Mażany is a district of the Gmina Kętrzyn (rural municipality Rastenburg ) in the powiat Kętrzyński (district Rastenburg ), before 1998 the Olsztyn (Allenstein) Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
Until 1945 (noble and Köllmisch) Masehnen was parish in the Protestant Church of Rosengarten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Katharina in Rastenburg in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Mażany belongs to the Catholic Christ the King Church in Radzieje in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant church members belong to the parishes in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) or Kętrzyn, both of which belong to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Mażany is on a side road that branches off the Polish voivodship road DW 650 at Siniec (Groß Blaustein , 1938 to 1945 Blaustein) and leads via Dolny Siniec to Jankowo (Jankendorf) to Parcz (Partsch) .
Partsch was once the next train station from Masehnen on the Rastenburg – Angerburg railway line . Regular operation on this route has been discontinued, it is only used for freight traffic and tourism.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Polish list of pole numbers 2013, p. 770
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Masehnen, Dorf
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Masehen, Gut
- ↑ Masendons Masons
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Rosengarten district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477