Parys (Korsze)

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Parys (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Korsze
Geographic location : 54 ° 11 '  N , 21 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 11 '9 "  N , 21 ° 11' 51"  E
Residents : 193 (2011)
Postal code : 11-430
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 590 : Barciany ↔ Korsze - Reszel - Biskupiec
Babieniec - Kraskowo - Błogoszewo → Parys
Giełpsz - Karszewo - Wiklewko - Wiklewo → Parys
Rail route : no train tail
Next international airport : Danzig



Parys ( German  Paaris ) is a village in the urban and rural municipality of Korsze ( Korschen ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Parys is located in the historical region of East Prussia , about 15 kilometers south of the border between the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast . Neighboring places are Korsze in the southwest, Glitajny (Glittehnen) in the west and Pomnik (Pomnick) in the northeast . The district town of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) is 16 kilometers to the south-east.

history

The exact time of the founding of Paaris is not known, it is dated to around 1370. It was founded according to Kulmer law with an area of ​​64 hooves . Six of the hooves were assigned to the village mayor, four to the church. In 1817 the village consisted of 38 residential buildings.

On April 30, 1874, the rural communities Paaris and Seeligenfeld ( Polish : Błogoszewo ) and the estate districts of Adlig Unter Plehnen ( Równina Dolna ), Köllmisch Unter Plehnen ( Równina Górna ) and Seeligenfeld formed a separate administrative district. It existed until 1945 and was part of the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Towards the end of World War II , the Red Army occupied the area in January 1945 . In the summer of 1945, Paaris was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, along with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia . The Poles introduced the Polonized place name Parys for Paaris . In the period that followed, the remaining German residents were expelled from Paaris and replaced by immigrating Poles .

In 1973 Parys became the seat of a Schulzenamt, to which the village Pomnik belonged, in the Gmina Korsze . In 1937 there was a kindergarten, a four-class school and a library point here. In 2011 Parys had 193 inhabitants.

Population development

Old building in the village (2009)

The following is a graphic representation of the population development.

church

Church building

The church in Parys surrounded by tall trees (2009)

The church was built between 1370 and 1380. The western part was added during an extension around 1400, the 30 meter high church tower probably in the 15th century. In 1599 the church was completely renovated in which the east gable was replaced by new forms. In 1706 the gable was revised again and got its current shape. On the north side of the church there is a vestibule and the sacristy .

The church houses a brass bell from 1605. The altar dates from 1703 and was designed by Isaak Riga from Königsberg (Prussia) .

Parish

Evangelical

The Paaris Church, which was founded in the pre-Reformation period, became Lutheran with the introduction of the Reformation . It belonged to the inspection - later called Kirchenkreis - Rastenburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and was the parish church for the parish of Paaris. The parish counted 1273 parishioners in 1925. The church patronage was the responsibility of the state authorities. After 1945, the Protestant community in the village then called "Parys" fell apart. Protestant residents living here today belong to the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Until 1945 the few Catholic residents of Paaris were parish in Korschen in the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled here, who - almost without exception of the Catholic denomination - claimed the previously evangelical church for themselves. A Catholic parish was established in Parys, whose church is now a branch church of the parish in Korsze and belongs to the Reszel deanery in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Street

The village can be reached via Voivodship Road 590 . This leads in a south-westerly direction through Korsze ( Korschen ) after four kilometers , then in a south-westerly direction through Reszel (Rößel) after 15 kilometers and finally flows into state road 57 after 40 kilometers in Biskupiec (Bischofsburg) . In a northerly direction, the DW 590 ends after about 12 kilometers in Barciany (Barten) .

rail

The former station building in Parys (2009)

A single-track railway line runs about one kilometer west of the city . The route is no longer used for regular passenger traffic, but only for tourist purposes. Paaris railway station was on this route from 1871 to 2000.

The nearest train station with regular rail traffic is in Korsze. From there, PKP offers direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Poznan and Białystok .

air

The geographically closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport ( Koenigsberg ), which is located about 90 kilometers northwest in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast outside the European Union - which is why it can only be used to a very limited extent. The nearest international airport is Gdansk Airport, about 180 kilometers to the west in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Personalities of the place

  • Georg Künstler (born February 20, 1864 in Paaris), Protestant theologian († 1957)
  • Herbert Döhring (born September 29, 1913 in Paaris), SS member and property manager of Adolf Hitler († 2001)

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 280-281.
  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 214-215 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 904
  2. ↑ a b c Parys - Paaris at ostpreussen.net
  3. ^ Territorial.de, Paaris District , May 1, 2008
  4. ↑ Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 300
  5. ^ Wieś Parys w liczbach
  6. ↑ For 1817, 1939, 1970: Swat 1978, pp. 214–215
    For 1933 Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastenburg district (Polish Ketrzyn). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ a b Swat 1978, p. 214
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
  9. ^ Parafia Korsze in the Archdiocese of Warmia
  10. ↑ frank-engel.de, Poland - Korschen (Korsze) , April 1998