Nowy Harsz

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Nowy Harsz
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Nowy Harsz (Poland)
Nowy Harsz
Nowy Harsz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Pozezdrze
Geographic location : 54 ° 8 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '37 "  N , 21 ° 46' 15"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Harsz → Nowy Harsz
Pieczarki - Port Pieczarki → Nowy Harsz
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Nowy Harsz ( German  Neu Haarszen , 1936 to 1945 Neu Haarschen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Nowy Harsz is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, east of Jezioro Dargin (Dargainen Lake) , eleven kilometers south of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The small village of Neu Harszen and until 1945 was a residential area in the rural community of Haarszen (1936 to 1945 Haarschen, in Polish Harsz ) in the Angerburg district . In 1905 the place had 56 inhabitants. On September 17, 1936, the spelling of Neu Haarszen was changed to "Neu Haarschen".

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and became an independent place with the Polish name "Nowy Harsz". He is assigned to the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Harsz (Haarszen or Haarschen) and thus part of the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship assigned.

religion

Until 1945 Neu Haarszen of the Protestant Church Possessern in the church province of East Prussia was assigned to the Church of the Old Prussian Union and the Catholic Church Zum Guten Hirten Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Nowy Harsz belongs to the Catholic parish Pozezdrze in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , which maintains a preaching office in Pozezdrze.

Transport links

Nowy Harsz is a lakeside village and can only be reached via two feeder roads from Harsz (Haarszen / Haarschen) and from Pieczarki (Pietzarken , 1931 to 1945 Bergensee) via Port Pieczarki ("Port of Pietzarken").

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Neu Haarschen
  2. New hairs at GenWiki
  3. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477