Machary (Piecki)
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Mrągowo | |
Gmina : | Piecki | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 42 ' N , 21 ° 16' E | |
Height : | 175 m npm | |
Residents : | 365 (2011) | |
Postal code : | 11-710 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | |
License plate : | NMR | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Babięta / DK 58 ↔ Goleń | |
Nawiady / ext. 601 → Machary | ||
Rail route : | no rail connection | |
Next international airport : | Danzig |
Machary ( German Macharren ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Piecki ( German Peitschendorf ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).
Geographical location
Machary is located southeast of Lake Ganther ( Polish Jezioro Gant ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers south of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ).
history
The village of Macharren was founded in 1555 with five Hufen under Kulmer law . In 1785 it is mentioned as a "köllmisches village with 36 fireplaces".
Between 1874 and 1945 Macharren was in the District Gollingen ( Polish Golen ) incorporated, which for Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Macharren belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Macharren, 280 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.
In 1945, as a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland . This also affected Macharren, which received the Polish form of the name “Machary”. Today it is a town in the rural community composite Piecki (whip village) in mrągowo county (Kreis Sensburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong.
Population numbers
year | number |
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1818 | 210 |
1839 | 392 |
1867 | 417 |
1885 | 439 |
1898 | 448 |
1905 | 423 |
1910 | 416 |
1933 | 398 |
1939 | 372 |
2011 | 365 |
church
Machary was parish in the Protestant Church of Aweyden in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Machary belongs to the evangelical parish Nawiady , a branch parish of the parish Mrągowo in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , as well as to the Catholic parish Nawiady in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .
school
A school was established in Macharren around 1740.
traffic
Machary can be reached directly from Babięta (Babienten , 1938 to 1945 Babenten) on state road 58 and from Nawiady (Aweyden) on voivodship road 601 . There is no connection to the rail network .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 755
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Macharren
- ↑ a b c Macharren at GenWiki
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Gollingen district
- ↑ 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. 114
- ↑ Wieś Machary w liczbach
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500