Niedźwiedzie (Szczytno)

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Niedźwiedzie
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Niedźwiedzie (Poland)
Niedźwiedzie
Niedźwiedzie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '9 "  N , 21 ° 8' 43"  E
Residents : 131 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Olszyny / DK 53 ↔ Gawrzyjałki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Niedźwiedzie ( German  Bärenbruch ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Niedźwiedzie is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , twelve kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

The foundation bears breakthrough occurred in 1819, after which a document issued on 14 September of that year Tangible suggesting. On April 12, 1869, the place was declared an independent municipality by cabinet order , separating it from the manor district of the Friedrichsfelde forest district ( Chochół in Polish ).

In 1874 the Bärenbruch manor district was incorporated into the newly established Wilhelmsthal district ( Pużary in Polish ) in the Ortelsburg district in East Prussia . The population was 263 in 1910. It fell to 216 by 1933 and was 210 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Bärenbruch belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Bärenbruch, 190 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

As a result of the war, Bärenbruch came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Niedźwiedzie”. Today the village with the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectweo in Polish ) is part of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The number of inhabitants in 2011 was 131.

church

Until 1945 Bärenbruch was in the Evangelical Church Gawrzialken (1928 to 1945 Wilhelmsthal , Polish Gawrzyjałki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Ortelsburg or Lipowitz (1933 to 1945 Lindenort , Polish Lipowiec ) in the Diocese of Warmia parish.

Today Niedźwiedzie belongs to the Protestant parish of Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish of Gawrzyjałki in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

During the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm III. The village school founded in 1918 was modernized.

traffic

Niedźwiedzie is located on a side road that leads from the Polish state road 53 (former German Reichsstraße 134 ) near Olszyny (Olschienen , Ebendorf from 1938 to 1945 ) to Gawrzyjałki . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Niedźwiedzie
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 811
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Bärenbruch
  4. ↑ a b c Bärenbruch near the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Wilhelmsthal
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ 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. 93
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 469