Nowa Guja

Nowa Guja
	Nowa Guja
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '41 "  N , 21 ° 35' 3"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Prynowo - Brzozowo ↔ Bajory Małe - Brzeźnica
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Nowa Guja ( German  New Guja ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Nowa Guja is located south of the Nordenburg Lake ( Jezioro Oświn in Polish ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is twelve kilometers to the southeast to the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The town of Neu Guja , which at the time actually only consisted of a large courtyard, was founded in 1814. When the administrative district of Guja was established in 1874 , the rural community of New Guja was incorporated. The county was part of the circle Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

At the official census on December 1, 1910, 30 inhabitants were registered in New Guja. Four weeks later - on December 28, 1910 - the rural community of Neu Guja was incorporated into the Klein Guja manor district (no longer existing), which in turn was integrated into Groß Guja ( Guja in Polish ) on September 30, 1928 .

As a result of the war, southern East Prussia and with it Groß Guja and its districts came to Poland . New Guja received the Polish name form "Nowa Guja" and is today with Rydzówka Mała (Sandhof) a part of the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Guja (Greater Guja) within the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia and Mazury belong.

Religions

Neu Guja was parish up until 1945 in the Evangelical Church of Engelstein in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Nowa Guja is part of the Catholic parish of Węgielsztyn in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant parish of Węgorzewo, a branch of the parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Nowa Guja is on a side road that runs from the Polish state road DK 63 near Prynowo (Prinowen , 1938 to 1945 Primsdorf) via Brzozowo (Brosowen , 1938 to 1945 Hartenstein) to Bajory Małe (Klein Bajohren , 1938 to 1945 Kleinblankenfelde) and to the Polish -Russian state border at Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) leads. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Named after the former city of Nordenburg , today as the village "Krylowo" located north of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg region (Prussia) )
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Neu Guja
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Guja District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476