Mieruniszki

Mieruniszki
	Mieruniszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
Powiat :	Suwalski
Gmina :	Filipów
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '15 "  N , 22 ° 34' 14"  E
Residents :	170 (2006)
Postal code :	16-424
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	BSU
Economy and Transport
Street :	652 Voivodeship Road : Kowale Oleckie ↔ Suwałki
	Dzięgiele - Babki - Garbas Drugi → Mieruniszki
	Babki Oleckie - Dąbrowskie - Plewki → Mieruniszki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Kaunas

Mieruniszki ( German  Mierunsken , 1938 to 1945 Merunen ) is a village in the Polish Podlaskie Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Filipów in the Powiat Suwalski .

Geographical location

Mieruniszki is located in the extreme northwest of the Podlaskie Voivodeship on the south-eastern shore of the Great Mierunsker See (Great Meruner See, in Polish Jezioro Mieruńskie Wielkie ). It is 16 kilometers to the southwest to the former district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) , and today's district metropolis of Suwałki is 30 kilometers to the east.

history

Merunysky was mentioned in 1422 in a document of the Peace of Lake Melno ( Polish Jezioro Mełno ). At that time it was about the definition of the border between Poland and the territory of the Teutonic Order . The actual establishment of what would later become the largest village in the Oletzko district did not take place until 1537.

Mierunsken, with its estate about two kilometers away from the town, became an official village on May 27, 1874 and thus gave its name to an administrative district that - from 1939 renamed "Amtsgebiet Merunen" - existed until 1945 and became the district of Oletzko - from 1933 to 1945 " Landkreis Treuburg " called - belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia in the administrative district of Gumbinnen .

In 1910 there were 1,309 inhabitants registered in Mierunsken. In 1885 there were already 1,454, in 1933 only 1,189, and in 1939 only 1,088. On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938, Mierunsken was renamed "Merunen" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has been called "Mieruniszki" since then. The rural community Mieruniszki existed from 1945 to 1954, then in the Białystok Voivodeship, from 1975 to 1998 in the Suwałki Voivodeship and since then in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Mieruniszki is now a village of the Filipów rural community in the Suwalski powiat.

Mierunsken / Merunen district (1874–1945)

Between 1874 and 1945, five villages belonged to the Mierunsken / Merunen district:

Surname	Change name (1938 to 1945)	Polish name
Bittkowen	Bittkau (East Pr.)	Bitkovo
Borawsken	Deutscheck (Eastern Pr.)	Borawskie
Garbassen		Garba's Drugi
Mierunsken	Merunas	Mieruniszki
Plop		Plewki

church

→ Main article : Mierunsken Church

Ruins of the church in Mierunsken / Merunen (Mieruniszki)

Church building

Until 1945 there was a Protestant church in Mierunsken / Merunen , which was mentioned in 1545, but could not be rebuilt until 1710 after it was destroyed in 1656/57. It was a plastered stone church with a western tower. In 1945 this structure was also destroyed. There are only ruins left of it.

Parish

A Protestant parish existed in Mierunsken just a few years after the village was founded. To his parish belonged 25 towns, villages and residential areas, in which in 1925 5,622 parishioners lived. In 1913 the independent parish of Sczeczinken (1916 to 1945: Eichhorn, Polish : Szczecinki ) was spun off, but it remained connected to the parish in Mierunsken / Merunen. It was part of the Oletzko / Treuburg church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Protestant church members living in Mieruniszki today belong to the parish in Suwałki with the branch church in Gołdap (Goldap) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . There are still two former Protestant cemeteries in the village, which, like the church ruins, are under monument protection.

The few Catholic church members before 1945 were oriented towards Marggrabowa / Treuburg ( Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today they are in the majority and parish in the Filipów Church . It belongs to the Filipów Deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Mieruniszki is located on the major Polish provincial road 652 (former German National Highway 137 ), the two national roads 8 DK and DK 65 connects and thus a bridge between the provinces Podlachien and Masuria exerts. In addition, two side streets end in Mierusniszki, which lead from the north from Dzięgiele (Dzingellen , 1938 to 1945 Widmannsdorf) and from the south from Babki Oleckie (Babken , 1938 to 1945 Legenquell) to here.

Until 1945 Mierunsken / Merunen had a rail connection with four stations to the Treuburg – Garbassen (Olecko – Garbas Drugi) line of the Treuburg small railways , which was not put back into operation after the war.

literature

• Edelgard Stanko, Heinz Rieck: Mierunsken Merunen - our village. o.A.
• Edelgard Stanko, Heinz Rieck: Memories of Mierunsken Merunen. o.A.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mieruniszki - Mierunsken / Merunen - oldest village in the Treuburg district
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Merunen
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Mierunsken / Merunen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ The place is now between Bitkowo (Gołdap) and Bitkowo (Filipów) divided
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 115, fig. 528
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484