Pasterzewo

Pasterzewo ( German Pastern ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Reszel ( urban and rural community Rößel ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Pasterzewo is located north of the Pasternscher Lake ( Polish Jezioro Pasterzewo ) in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers southwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).

Lake view at Pasterzewo

The small village Pastern was 1874 in the newly established District Rehstall ( Polish Stachowizna incorporated) that the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On June 22, 1929, the district was renamed "District Pülz ". Between 1874 and 1929 Pastern was also involved in the newly formed Rehstall registry office , which was then replaced by the Pülz registry office (in Polish: Pilec ).

As a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 . Pastern was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name "Pasterzewo". Today it is a place in the network of the urban and rural community Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Before 1945 Pastern was parish in the Protestant Church Bäslack ( Polish Bezławki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Heiligelinde (Polish Święta Lipka ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Pasterzewo belongs to the Protestant parish Kęrtzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish Święta Lipka in the current Archdiocese of Warmia within the Polish Catholic Church .

Pasterzewo can be reached from Widryny (Widrinnen) by land. There is no train connection.

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