Możdżany

Możdżany
	Możdżany
	Możdżany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 ' N , 22 ° 1' E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '33 " N , 22 ° 0' 57" E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-612
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kruklanki ↔ Jurkowo - Lipowo
	Knieja Łuczańska → Możdżany
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Możdżany ( German Mosdzehnen , 1930 to 1945 Borkenwalde ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Możdżany is located northwest of Lake Siewen ( Jezioro Żywy in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is 17 kilometers to the south-west, while the former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 25 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The place was founded in 1617 under the name Borken . After 1617 Modszehnen , then called Mosdzehnen until 1930 , it was an estate and several farms. The Borken, Forst ( Polish: Borki ) residential area was integrated into the village of Mosdzehnen.

On May 6, 1874 Modszehnen was incorporated into the newly established Regulowken district (Polish: Regułówka). He belonged to the circle Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Mosdzehnen had 98 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the Regulowken manor district was incorporated into the rural community of Mosdzehnen, and on July 7, 1930, it was renamed "Borkenwalde". As a result of this renaming, the Regulowken district changed its name to "Borkenwalde district" on September 5, 1931. Until 1945 it consisted of three villages.

In 1933 the population of Borkenwald was 349, six years later it was 310.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Możdżany”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo), to which the places Borki (Borken, Forst) , Knieja Łuczańska (Waldgut Lötzen) and Regułówka (Regulowken) are assigned. Together they are part of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Borkenwalde district (1931–1945)

As the successor to the Regulowken district, the following villages belonged to the Borkenwalde district between 1931 and 1945:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Borkenwalde until 1930: Mosdzehnen		Możdżany
Jorkowen	Jorking	Jurkovo	(until December 31, 2009 "Jurkowo Węgorzewskie")
Siewen		Żywy

Religions

Before 1945, Mosdzehnen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (in Polish Giżycko ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Możdżany belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish of Giżycko with the branch church of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Możdżany is on a side road that connects Kruklanki (Kruglanken) with Jurkowo (until 2010 Jurkowo Węgorzewskie, until 1938 Jorkowen , 1938 to 1945 Jorken ) and Lipowo (Lipowen , 1928 to 1945 Lindenheim) - located on the border with Gmina Wydminy . An overland feeder road from Knieja Łuczańska (Lötzen Forest Estate ) ends in Możdżany .

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 797
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Borkenwalde
↑ ^a ^b Rolf Jehke, Regulowken / Borkenwalde district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 797

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Borkenwalde

[Jehke-3] Rolf Jehke, Regulowken / Borkenwalde district

[4] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476