Momajny

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Momajny (Poland)
Momajny
Momajny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 19 '  N , 21 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '48 "  N , 21 ° 15' 14"  E
Residents : 120 (2011)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Michałkowo / ext . 591 ↔ Piskorze - Skandawa
Garbno - Nowy Dwór Momajński → Momajny
Rutka → Momajny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig
Administration (as of 2008)
Dorfschulze : Elżbieta Samsel



Momajny (2015)

Momajny ( German  Momehnen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It forms a Schulzenamt (Sołectwo) in the rural community of Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) .

Geographical location

Momajny is in northeastern Poland. The Polish state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast is about two kilometers north of Momajny. Neighboring villages are Rutka (Rauttersfelde) in the north, Maciejki (Blumenthal) in the east and Skandawa (Skandau) in the south .

history

Local history

It is not certain when torque was created. A church is mentioned in Marschalksdorf as early as 1373 . Between 1374 and 1379 the village was re- localized . A new church was built at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Before 1785 the place was called Momeyn .

On December 8, 1811, the church burned down. It was rebuilt between 1818 and 1821.

On April 9, 1874 Momehnen office Village and its name to an administrative district in the county Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia . At the beginning there were eight villages, in the end there were three.

During the Second World War there was a satellite camp of the Stalag IA for Soviet prisoners of war. In January 1945 the Red Army took the area and as a result of the war the area became part of Poland. Momehnen received the Polish form of the name "Momajny".

In 1970 there was an eight-grade elementary school, a library and a 30-seat cinema. After the dissolution of the Gromadas , the Schulzenamt (sołectwo) Momajny became part of Gmina Skandawa (Skandau) , after its dissolution from 1977 part of Gmina Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Population numbers

Village idyll in Momajny

In the 18th century there were 30 residential buildings in Momehnen. The following is a graphic representation of the population development.

Momehnen District (1874–1945)

The following places belonged to the administrative district Momehnen, which are located on both today's Polish (PL) and today's Russian (RUS) national territory, perhaps also in the border area, where they no longer exist today:

Name (until 1945) Name (after 1945) Country Remarks
Arnsdorf (municipality) Smeloje RUS
Arnsdorf (Good) RUS 1912 incorporated into the rural community of Arnsdorf
Gerkiehnen Gierkiny PL 1931 reclassified to the Dietrichsdorf district
Gross Schellenberg Ogarewo RUS 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Schellenberg
Klein Schellenberg Stanislavskoye RUS 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Schellenberg
Moments Momajny PL
Neuhof Momhnen Nowy Dwór Momajński PL 1928 incorporated into Momehnen
Rauttersfelde Rutka PL 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Schellenberg
from 1877: Ludwigsburg Stanislavskoye RUS 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Schellenberg
from 1883: Ludwigshöhe Piskorze PL 1928 incorporated into Momehnen
from 1928: Blumenthal Maciejki PL 1928 incorporated from the Kanoten district to Momehnen

On January 1, 1945, only the communities Arnsdorf, Momehnen and Schellenberg formed the administrative district of Momehnen.

church

Church building

The Church in Momajny

The building, which dates from the 14th century, had no choir structure. In 1811 the church burned down to the two-meter ring wall and was rebuilt from 1818 and inaugurated in 1821.

Parish

The church Momehnen received in 1373 the Tangible and the first pastor was appointed 1,383th The parish, which already existed in the pre-Reformation period, stretched southwest of the former district town of Gerdauen (Russian: Schelesnodoroschny), which is now on Russian territory . At that time it belonged to the Schippenbeil Archipresbyterate (now Polish: Sępopol).

The Reformation arrived relatively early. Mohmenen was an evangelical parish village for over four centuries . With its last 1320 parish members it belonged to the church district Gerdauen within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 .

Today Momajny has a predominantly Roman Catholic population. Here, after 1945, the parish Świętego Piotra Apostola ( German  Holy Apostle Peter ) established itself , which belongs to the Deanery Kętrzyn II - Północy Wschód ( Rastenburg II Northeast) in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . Subsidiary communities exist in Frączkowo (Fritzendorf) and Skandawa (Skandau) .

Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) with the branch parish Barciany (Barten) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Street

Bus stop at the church square in Momajny

A road leads north from Momajny to Rutka (Rauttersfelde) and ends there at the state border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad (until 1945 it continued to Reichsstraße 131 - today Russian trunk road A196 - near Gerdauen ( Russian Schelesnodoroschny )). There is no border crossing. A road leads south to Skandawa (Skandau) , west to Garbno (Laggarben) and east through Maciejki (Blumenthal) and after three kilometers to voivodship road 591 (former Reichsstraße 141 I) near Michałkowo (Langmichels) .

rail

The village does not have its own rail connection. The next train station is in Korsze (Korschen), about 20 kilometers southwest . From there the PKP offers direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Poznan .

air

The geographically closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 75 kilometers to the northwest, on Russian territory - outside the European Union . The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Walesa Airport in Gdansk, about 180 kilometers to the west .

Personality of the place

Native of the place

  • Fritz Schröder (born October 4, 1915 in Momehnen, † July 5, 2001 in Neuenhagen near Berlin), German politician (SED), Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR († 2001)

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 209 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Momajny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 794
  2. ↑ Gmina Barciany website, Sołectwo Momajny , accessed on Aug. 7, 2008  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.barciany.pl  
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Momehnen
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, District Momehnen
  5. ↑ For 1910: Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Gerdauen
    For 1933: Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. District of Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). For May 1939: The Parish Momehnen , accessed on 7 Aug 2008 For 1970: Swat 1978, p. 209 For 2011: Wieś Momajny w liczbach
  6. ^ Parish Momehnen
  7. ^ Parafia Momajny in the Archdiocese of Warmia