Pianki (Orzysz)

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Pianki (Poland)
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Pianki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 50 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '28 "  N , 21 ° 55' 15"  E
Residents : 228 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Sumki / DK 63 → Pianki
Rail route : Lötzen – Johannisburg , closed in 1945
Next international airport : Danzig



Pianki ( German  Pianken , 1938 to 1945 Altwolfsdorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( town and country municipality Arys ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Pianki is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 25 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

As Wolff village founded in 1452 and later Pianken called, was in the newly built village 1874 District Mykossen ( Polish Mikosze ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Arens Walde" renamed - to circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian Province of East Prussia belonged.

The associated forestry was located two kilometers northeast of the village . The village Sumken (Polish Sumki ) was incorporated.

In 1910 566 inhabitants were registered in Pianken, 481 were still registered in 1933.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Pianken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Pianken, 400 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3, 1938, Pianken was renamed to "Altwolfsdorf" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-looking place names . The population was 443 in 1939.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Pianken resp. Altwolfsdorf also affected. The village received the Polish form of the name "Pianki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the city ​​and rural municipality Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945 Pianken was parish in the Protestant Church Arys ( Polish Orzysz ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Pianki belongs to the Catholic parish in Orzysz in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Pianki is located west of the Polish state road 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) and can be reached via a junction in Sumki (Sumken) . There is no longer a train connection. Between 1905 and 1945 the village was a train station on the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , which was shut down and dismantled due to the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 910
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Altwolfsdorf
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Mykossen / Arens Walde
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 76
  8. ↑ Gmina Orzysz
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491