Orzyny

Orzyny (Orżyny)
	Orzyny (Orżyny)
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Dźwierzuty
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 ′  N , 21 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 42 "  N , 21 ° 4 ′ 10"  E
Residents :	325 (2011)
Postal code :	12-120
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 600 : Mrągowo - Rybno - Rańsk ↔ Jabłonka - Szczytno
	Dźwierzuty / DK 57 - Targowo → Orzyny
	Marksewo / DK 58 - Miętkie → Orzyny
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Orzyny (also: Orżyny , German  heirs ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Dźwierzuty (rural community Mensguth ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Orzyny is located at the southern end of the Erbener See ( Jezioro Arwiny in Polish ) and in the northeast of the Great Lensk Lake ( Jezioro Łęsk in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

Village street in Orzyny

Retail stores

history

Place name

"Orzyny" is the official Polish name of the village. In colloquial language, however, the name “Orżyny” is used, it is also on the place name sign on the street and on several newly issued maps and notices. It can also be found in official documents and identity cards.

Local history

The Erben estate was one of the manors that the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Heinrich Reuss von Plauen , prescribed to the Küchmeister von Sternberg brothers on March 12, 1468. In the 19th century, three sub- works were founded on the noble lands of the estate : Annaberg (Polish : Zagórzany ) on December 23, 1841, Antonienhof and Hermannshof (Polish: Rogowo ) on May 9, 1853. All three places no longer exist.

On July 16, 1874 heirs office Village and thus its name to one was District , which existed until 1945 and for district Szczytno in the Administrative district Königsberg : (from 1905 Region of Olsztyn in) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Only two municipalities were assigned to the Erben district : the Erben manor district and the rural community of the same name . In 1910 the manor district had 161 inhabitants, the rural community 225. The manor district covered 1001.9 hectares, the village only 226 hectares. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which heirs belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Dorf und Gut Erben, 300 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As part of the dissolution of all manor districts, the manor district of Erben was merged with the rural community on September 30, 1928 to form the new rural community of Erben. The population was 587 in 1933 and 604 in 1939.

Erben came in 1945 in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Orżyny". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the rural community Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Orzyny had 325 inhabitants.

Good heir

Estates

The manor, committed in 1468, was divided in 1717 and passed to Hans Wilhelm Küchmeister von Sternberg , the heirs of Siegmund Küchmeister and Christoph von Berkhahn . Around 1780 the estate was owned by the von Rosenberg family and around 1800 by the von Lenski family . Since 1900 Baron von Paleske and Countess von Mirbach from Sorquitten ( Sorkwity in Polish ) owned the estate. In autumn 1912 Fritz Wilke from the Pomeranian Stolp (Polish Słupsk ) bought it , and at Christmas 1917 Rudolf Wilke took over the property . In the spring of 1930, the East Prussian Building and Settlement Society in Königsberg i. Pr. Parts of the property for settlement purposes.

manor

The manor house, which is still preserved today, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a two-story building with a terrace and a large hall. Fragments of the former estate park can still be seen.

church

Evangelical

Until 1945 heirs was parish into the Protestant Church of Rheinswein ( Polish Rańsk ) in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . This church - today a branch church of the parish Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland - is still the church of the evangelical inhabitants of Orzyny and its surroundings.

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 the Roman Catholic church members in Erben belonged to the Mensguth parish ( Dźwierzuty in Polish ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today the closest Catholic church is the parish church in Targowo (Theerwisch) in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

Orzyny school

The school, which was founded in the time of Frederick the Great , received a modern new building made of red brick in 1922/23. It was one-story, but was then joined by a multi-story building from the 1930s. In 1939 the school had three classes.

traffic

Orzyny is conveniently located on the provincial road 600 , which connects the regions of Mrągowo (Sensburg) and Szczytno (Ortelsburg) . In addition, secondary roads provide a connection to state road 57 near Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) and to state road 58 near Marksewo (Marxöwen , 1938 to 1945 Markshöfen)

Web links

Commons : Orzyny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical photos of heirs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wieś Orzyny w liczbach
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 877
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register Ostpreußen (2005): Erben
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} heirs to the Ortelsburg district community
5. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Erben district
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
7. ↑ 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. 94
8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
10. ^ Catholic parish Mensguth at GenWiki