Myszki (Biała Piska)

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Myszki (Poland)
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Myszki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 40 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '34 "  N , 22 ° 9' 27"  E
Residents : 113 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : 1867N: Drygały / ext. 667Dmusy - Skarżyn / 1680N
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Myszki ( German  Mysken , 1938 to 1945 Misken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Myszki is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 23 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The 1540 Myschicken after 1579 Mischke , after 1785 Missken and until 1938 Mysken place indicated consisted of the village as well as a forester , the 750 meters southwest of the village was located. It was founded in 1449 by the Teutonic Knight Order as a freehold with 13 hooves according to Köllmischer law .

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1874 Mysken was incorporated into the newly established district of Drygallen (from 1938 "District of Drigelsdorf)".

273 residents were registered in Mysken in 1910, compared to 279 in 1933. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Mysken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or connection to Poland. In Mysken, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes. On June 3, 1938, the spelling of the place name Mysken was changed to "Misken". The population was 256 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Myszki”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated. In 2011 the population of Myszkis was 113.

Memorial stone

Since 1994 there has been a memorial stone in the former German cemetery in memory of all Misker who found their final resting place here. The stone was erected in Polish-German cooperation.

Religions

Until 1945 Mysken was parish in the Protestant Church of Drygallen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Myszki belongs to the parish Drygały in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant residents belong to the parish in Biała Piska, a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Mysken became a school town in 1853.

traffic

Myszki is located on Droga powiatowa 1867N, which connects the Provincial Road 667 near Drygały (Drygallen , 1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf) with Droga powiatowa 1680N near Skarżyn (Skarzinnen , 1938 to 1945 Richtenberg) .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 804
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Misken
  3. a b c Mysken / Misken in family research Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Drigelsdorf district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 76
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  9. Wieś Myszki w liczbach
  10. Memorial stone erected and inaugurated in honor of the dead at the German cemetery in Misken , in: Johannisburger Heimatbrief 1994, p. 32a, 36–37
  11. = "district road"