Maszty

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Maszty
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Maszty (Poland)
Maszty
Maszty
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '27 "  N , 21 ° 55' 6"  E
Residents : 38 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Zawady → Maszty
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Maszty ( German  masts ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( urban and rural municipality Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Maszty is located in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, ten kilometers southeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village, named Mastenn after 1579, consisted of large and small farms before 1945. In 1471 it was founded by the Teutonic Knight Order as a freehold estate with ten hooves under Magdeburg law .

Masts belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1874 it was incorporated into the Kallenzinnen district (from 1938 "Dreifelde district").

The number of inhabitants of Masten was 139 in 1910, 154 in 1933 and 141 in 1939.

When all of southern East Prussia was surrendered to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , masts were also affected. It received the Polish name form "Maszty" and is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the urban and rural municipality Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated. In 2011 Maszty had 38 inhabitants.

Religions

Before 1945, Masten was parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia . From this time there is still a small Protestant cemetery in the village.

Today, on the Catholic side, Maszty belongs to the St. John the Baptist Church in Pisz and the parish church in Kumielsk (Kumilsko , 1938 to 1945 Morgen) , both located in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish in Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Maszty can be reached from the neighboring town of Zawady ( German  Sawadden , 1938 to 1945 Ottenberg ) on a side street.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 769
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Masten
  3. ↑ a b c masts in family research Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Dreifelde district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  8. ↑ Maszty at Polska w liczbach
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491