Pietrasze (Świętajno)

Pietrasze
	Pietrasze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 22 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '4 "  N , 22 ° 10' 42"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-411
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp - Wydminy ↔ Wronki - Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Pietrasze ( German  Pietraschen , 1938 to 1945 Petersgrund , Gut ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Pietrasze is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 24 kilometers northwest of the former district town of Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) and 27 kilometers east of today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Pietraschen , first mentioned in 1898, is an estate within the village of the same name, founded in 1550.

The village of Pietra's ( Polish Pietrasze ) and the Good Pietra's are today independent places where between them they at that time the county elk belonged, now the municipal and district boundary between Wydminy (Widminnen) in the district Giżycko (Giżycko) and Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altenkirchen) in the Olecko district (Oletzko / Treuburg) .

About the mother church Pietra's the good Pietra's 1874-1945 belonged to the District Gorlowken (Polish Gorłówko), the - the - 1939 in "District Gorlau" renamed county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia assigned was.

On June 3, 1938, Pietraschen was renamed "Petersgrund (East Prussia)".

As a result of the war, the village and estate with all of southern East Prussia came to Poland in 1945 . Both received the Polish name form "Pietrasze", where their ways parted and the former estate was now an independent village in the network of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) , while "changed" from the Lyck district to the Powiat Olecki .

Religions

The Good Pietra's was until 1945 on the same mother church in the Protestant Church Orlowen (1938 to 1945 Adlersdorf, Polish Orłowo) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches and the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Elk (Polish Ełk) in the diocese of Warmia eingepfarrt .

Today Pietrasze belongs to the protestant church Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and the Catholic Church of St. Casimir Orłowo in the Diocese of Ełk the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Pietrasze is conveniently located on the voivodship road DW 655 , which connects the two districts of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Olecko (Oletzko / Treuburg) in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with the Suwałki district in the Podlaskie Voivodeship .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 924.
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Petersgrund. In: Geographical Register of East Prussia. 2005.
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Gorlowen / Gorlau.