Meszno (Dubeninki)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Gołdap | ||
| Gmina : | Dubeninki | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 18 ' N , 22 ° 29' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NGO | ||
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| Street : |
Ext. 651 : Gołdap ↔ Żytkiejmy - Sejny , branch → Budwiecie |
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| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Meszno ( German Meschkrupchen , 1938 to 1945 Meschen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is located in the Gołdap (Goldap) district and belongs to the rural municipality of Dubeninki (Dunbeningken , 1938 to 1945 Dubeningen) .
geography
Meszno is located eleven kilometers east of the district town of Gołdap south of the Rominter Heide (Polish: Puszcza Romincka) on the northeast bank of the Scharner See (Jezioro Czarne).
history
The little after 1584 still Merkschkruppen after 1736 Meschkeruppen , after 1871 Meszkrupchen and until 1938 Meschkrupchen called village was 1,874 to 1,945 in the District Rogainen (Polish: Rogajny) incorporated. This was part of the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
185 inhabitants were registered in Meschkrupchen in 1910. Their number rose to 198 by 1933 and decreased to 178 by 1939.
In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign , Meschkrupchen was given the name "Meschen" on June 3, 1938. Seven years later, the place came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland . Today the village called "Meszno" is now part of the Gmina Dubeninki association in the Gołdapski powiat of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
Meschkrupchen was not a parish village , but was parish into the parish of the Dubeningken church before 1945 with its almost exclusively Protestant population . It belonged to the church district Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholic church members belonged to the parish in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today, the majority of Meszno's residents are Roman Catholic. The former Protestant church in Dubeninki is now their parish church, which is now part of the Gołdap deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are now oriented towards the church in Gołdap, which is a branch church of the parish in Suwałki (Suwalken) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Meszno is not far from the voivodship road DW 651 , which connects the two district towns of Gołdap (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) and Sejny ( Podlaskie Voivodeship ). Meszno can be reached via the branch to Budwiecie .
On November 15, 1923, what was then the Meschkrupchen train station on the "Kaiserbahn" line from Goldap to Szittkehmen was opened. It was not reactivated after 1945 and today only shows its route.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Meschen
- ^ Rolf Jehke: District Grabowen / Rogainen
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Goldap
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 478
- ↑ Dieter Zeigert: Disappeared tracks. The "Kaiserbahn" Goldap – Szittkehmen. Stade 2011