Piękna Góra (Giżycko)

Piękna Góra
	Piękna Góra
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 2 '  N , 21 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '49 "  N , 21 ° 43' 29"  E
Residents :	80 (2006)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Kętrzyn - Sterławki Wielkie ↔ Giżycko
	Kamionki - Guty → Piękna Góra
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Giżycko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Piękna Góra ( German  Schönberg ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

View of the recreation center "Gwarek" at Jezioro Tajty (Taita Lake) in Piękna Góra (Schönberg)

Geographical location

Piękna Góra is situated on Kissain- and the Taita Lake ( Polish Jezioro Kisajno and Jezioro Tajty) in the north eastern part of the Warmia and Mazury. The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is only three kilometers to the east.

history

Schönberg was called "Oberförsterei Lötzen" until October 8, 1821, and from 1839 it became a small estate village. In 1874 the town was in the newly built office district Kamionken incorporated, ( Polish Kamionki ), which - in 1928 in "District Steintal" renamed - was and until 1945 the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945 government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province East Prussia belonged. 54 inhabitants. counted Schönberg in 1910

On September 30, 1928, Schönberg lost its independence and was incorporated into the community of Groß Wronnen (1938 to 1945 Großwarnau, Wrony in Polish).

As a result of the war, Schönberg came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and has been called "Piękna Góra" ever since. Today the small town is part of the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Schönberg was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and still belongs to this church in Giżycko as Piękna Góra , which is now assigned to the diocese of Masuria in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Nothing has changed on the part of the Catholic Church either: Schönberg was and Piękna Góra is included in the parish church of St. Bruno in Giżycko, which at the time belonged to the Diocese of Warmia , but now belongs to the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Entrance to Piękna Góra

Piękna Góra is located on the important Polish voivodship road DW 592 (former German Reichsstrasse 135 ) which connects the three powiat districts Giżycko (Lötzen) , Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) . In Piękna Góra one of Kamionki (Kamionken , 1928 to 1945 stone valley ) coming from the embankment along the Kissain Lake (Jezioro Kisajno) ends .

The railway station in Giżycko is the nearest railway station and is located on the Głomno – Białystok railway line , which before 1945 connected Königsberg (Prussia) (now in Russia ) with Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus ), but now only runs on Polish territory.

Web links

Commons : Piękna Góra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 925
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schönberg
3. ↑ ^{a b} Schönberg (district of Lötzen)
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Steintal District
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, municipality directory, Lötzen district
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492