Mrozy Wielkie

Mrozy Wielkie
	Mrozy Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '29 "  N , 22 ° 24' 51"  E
Residents :	288 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-301
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ełk - Junction Mrozy Wielkie - Regielnica - Wiśniowo Ełcki - Tama / DK 61
Rail route :	Ełk – Turowo railway line of Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa (tourist traffic)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Mrozy Wielkie ( German  Groß Mrosen , 1929 to 1938 Mrossen , 1938 to 1945 Schönhorst (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Mrozy Wielkie is located on the south bank of the Great Sellmentsee ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ) in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, five kilometers southeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The village was founded after 1785 Groß Mroszen , after 1818 Groß Mrotzen , after 1898 Groß Mrosen , also: Groß Mrossen , and from 1929 Mrossen in 1473.

In 1874 it was incorporated into the Selment district. He had his official seat in Klein Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ), which was incorporated in 1905/07 after Groß Mrosen, later known as "Schönhorst (Ostpr.)", Which in 1938 prompted the renaming of the administrative district to "Official district Schönhorst (Ostpr.)" . The municipality belonged until 1945 to the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Groß Mrosen had 242 inhabitants. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Groß Mrosen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Groß Mrosen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

The rural community expanded on September 30, 1928 to the neighboring village of Regelitzen (1938 to 1945 Regelhof , Polish Regielnica ), which was incorporated. On January 1, 1929, Groß Mrosen was given the place name "Mrossen". The population rose to 409 in 1933 and 414 in 1939. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, the name was changed to "Schönhorst (Ostpr.)".

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 "Mrozy Wielkie". Today it is the seat of the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Mrozy, to which Mrozy Małe (Little Mrosen) also belongs. As such, Mrozy Wielkie is a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1988 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945, Groß Mrosen was parish in the Protestant parish church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Even today there is a church connection to Ełk , which now belongs to the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland or - as a subsidiary of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ) - to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Lycker Kleinbahnen

Mrozy Wielkie can be reached via a junction that leads from a side street from Ełk (Lyck) via the Szyba district to Regielnica (Regelitzen , 1938-1945 Regelhof) and on to Tama . There is also a country road from the neighboring town of Sodarchy (Sodarchen) to here.

Mrozy Wielkie is a train station on the Ełk – Turowo line of the Lycker Kleinbahnen ( Polish Ełcka Kolej Wąskatorowa ), which is operated as a historical narrow-gauge railway for tourist traffic .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 798
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Selment / Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
5. ↑ Klein Mrosen
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 85
8. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
11. ↑ Large Mrosen