Opaleniec
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Mazovia | ||
| Powiat : | Przasnysz | ||
| Gmina : | Chorus cele | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 17 ' N , 20 ° 55' E | ||
| Residents : | 263 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 06-330 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 29 | ||
| License plate : | WPZ | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK 57 : Bartoszyce - Szczytno - Wielbark ↔ Chorzele - Przasnysz - Kleszewo (- Pułtusk ) | ||
| Mącice → Opaleniec | |||
| Baranowo → Opaleniec | |||
| Rail route : |
Railway line (Ostrołęka–) Chorzele – Szczytno Railway station: Chorzele (currently no rail traffic) |
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Opaleniec ( German Flammberg , until 1904 Opalenietz ) is a village in the Polish Masovian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina (urban and rural municipality) Chorzele in the powiat Przasnyski .
Geographical location
Opaleniec is located on the Orzyc in the eastern north of the Masovian Voivodeship , 31 kilometers south of the former district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ) and 30 kilometers north of today's district metropolis Przasnysz . Until 1945 the village was a German border town to Poland .
history
Place name
"Opaleniecz" should mean "flaming mountains" in German. Thus the name "Flammberg" could indicate that this is an old Koehler village is where you wood piled into mountains to the coking process charcoal to win. Another derivation of the name is difficult because it is flat land, but deposits of charcoal could be found in various places.
Local history
An overview dating from 1579 names Opaleniec as a church village . In 1713, “84 hooves” are listed for Opalenietz, and in 1781/82 attempts are made to improve the Wyseggobruch in order to meet the lack of pastureland.
Between 1874 and 1945 was Opalenietz, which was renamed "Flammberg" on October 12, 1904, in the District United Piwnitz integrated, the - the - 1938 in "District Großalbrechtsort" renamed East Prussian district Szczytno belonged.
In 1910 there were 860 inhabitants registered in Opalenietz. Their number was 714 in 1933 and rose to 771 by 1939.
As a result of the war, Flammberg came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . The hitherto Hauptzollamt Neidenburg ( Polish Nidzica ) imputed customs office has been lifted. The village is now in the Masovian Voivodeship , whose border with the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship runs just a few kilometers further north. With the Polish form of the name “Opaleniec”, the former Flammberg is today a village in the network of the urban and rural community of Chorzele in the Powiat Przasnyski .
church
Evangelical
There was a Protestant church in Opalenietz as early as the 16th century. In place of a wooden church built at that time , a new massive brick building in neo-Gothic style was built in 1878. The village was initially looked after by pastors from the church in Willenberg ( Wielbark in Polish ), but from 1893 it became the seat of a clergyman. Until 1945 Opalenietz resp. Flammberg to the parish of Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The church building did not survive the Second World War . Today only the remains of the wall of the former tower portal are reminiscent of the church. The Protestant cemetery from earlier times still exists. The Protestant residents of Opaleniec now belong to the church in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Roman Catholic
In the years 1872/73 a Catholic church dedicated to St. Joseph was built in Opalenietz. The pastors of Willenberg performed their duties here until the village got its own pastor in 1899. In 1939 the parish had 379 members. The parish belonged before 1945 to the Dean's Office Mazury I (Headquarters: Angerburgl , Polish Węgorzewo ) in the former diocese of Warmia .
The church now called Opieki Ŝwiętego Józefa and provided with a roof turret is still standing. The parish is now assigned to the Deanery Szczytno in the Archdiocese of Warmia .
school
Before 1945 there were two schools in Flammberg, both of which were run in two classes. It was a Protestant and a Roman Catholic elementary school.
traffic
Opaleniec is located on the busy Polish state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ), which runs through the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in a north-south direction and leads into the northern Masovian Voivodeship . The neighboring towns are connected to the village by side streets. The nearest train station is Chorzele on the Ostrołęka – Szczytno railway line , which is currently not used.
Web links
- Historical recordings from Flammberg (East Prussia picture archive)
- Historical recordings from Flammberg (Ortelsburg district community)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wieś Opaleniec w liczbach
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 860
- ^ History of Flammberg in the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geography Ortregister East Prussia (2005): Flammberg
- ↑ a b Village Flammberg / Opalenietz near the Ortelsburg district community
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
- ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 128
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 150–151
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495
- ↑ Flammberg St. Joseph at GenWiki
- ^ Parafia Opaleniec in the Archdiocese of Warmia