Okowizna
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Węgorzewo | ||
| Gmina : | Pozezdrze | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 10 ' N , 21 ° 48' E | ||
| Height : | 120 m npm | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NWE | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ogonko / DK 63 ↔ Harsz | ||
| Róg → Okowizna | |||
| Kalskie Łąki → Okowizna | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Okowizna ( German Numeiten ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938-1945 large garden) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).
Geographical location
Okowizna in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship is seven kilometers southeast of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .
history
In old news from the “Ambte Angerburg”, “ Numeyten 1559 belongs to those of Hohendorff's heirs” was first mentioned. The place called Oskowisna before 1785 was a large estate. In 1912 it acquired Benno Hagen from today in Russia located in East Prussia Gutsdorf Pogrimmen ( Russian Ossipenko ) in the district Darkehmen .
In 1874, the Gutsbezirk Numeiten in the newly built office district was Haarszen ( Polish Harsz ) integrated, the - 1936 renamed "District Haar" - until 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Numeiten had a total of 59 inhabitants in 1910.
On September 30, 1928, the manor village gave up its independence and merged with Haarszen und Roggen (Róg in Polish) to form the new rural community Haarszen (1936 to 1945 Haarschen).
As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of name "Okowizna". The village now belongs to the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) Harsz within the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 to the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
Before 1945 Numeiten was parish in the Protestant Church Possessern in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Zum Guten Hirten Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Okowizna belongs to the Catholic Parish Pozezdrze in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) (with a sermon in Pozezdrze) in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Native of the place
- Max Contag (born June 4, 1852 in Numeiten; † 1930), German civil engineer
traffic
Okowizna is on a side road that branches off the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Ogonki (Ogonken , 1938 to 1945 Schwenten) and leads to Harsz (Haarszen , 1936 to 1945 Haarschen) . In addition, two country roads coming from the west of Róg (rye) and Kalskie Łąki (Kehlerwiese) end in Okowizna.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haarschen ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Numeiten
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Haarschen district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477
