Pilec

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Pilec
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Pilec (Poland)
Pilec
Pilec
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Reszel
Geographic location : 53 ° 59 '  N , 21 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '5 "  N , 21 ° 14' 8"  E
Residents : 258 (2011)
Postal code : 11-440
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Święta Lipka / ext . 594 ↔ Lembruk - Kiersztanowo (- Mrągowo )
Wola / Droga wojewódzka 590 - Burszewo - Śpiglówka → Pilec
Łazdoje / ext. 591 - Wólka Pilecka → Pilec
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Pilec [ ˈpilɛt͡s ] (German Pülz ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The village belongs to the Powiat Kętrzyński in the Gmina Reszel ( urban and rural municipality Rößel ).

Geographical location

The village is located in northeastern Poland. On the western edge of Pilec, the River Deine ( Polish: Dajna ) flows. The western border of the southern part of Pilec is the Pilecki Staw pond (German Pülzer Mühlenteich , literally Pülzer pond ). To the north of Pilec is the Deine-See (also: Heiligelinder See , in Polish Jezioro Dejnowa ), which extends to Święta Lipka ( Heiligelinde ). Neighboring villages are Staniewo (German Ottoswalde ) in the north, Lembruk (Langenbrück) in the south and Śpigiel (Spiegel) in the south-west .

history

Local history

The area around the village was used early on to build settlements. Grave fields from the 3rd / 4th It was discovered in the 18th century, but also a settlement that indicates a settlement from the Bronze Age was discovered.

The foundation of today's Pilec took place in 1326. It originated in the village church and a castle. In 1818 the village of Pülz consisted of 24 houses plus five houses on the estate, and in 1820 the place appears divided into two communal units: in the village of Königlich Pülz and is the estate of Adlig Pülz .

On June 22, 1929, the Rehstall district , to which Pülz had belonged since 1874, was renamed "Pülz District". Four sites were incorporated until 1945 in its administration area of the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

At the beginning of January 1945 the area and with it the village was taken by the Red Army . As a result of the Second World War , Pülz became part of Poland as Pilec . For the school year 1949/50 there was a primary school here with a teacher who taught 64 children. With the formation of the Gromadas , the village became the seat of one. The Gromada was dissolved three years later. In 1973, Pilec became the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo ) in the municipality of Reszel (Rößel) . In 1973 there was a branch of the Reszel city library in the village.

Population development

year Number
village		 Number of
good
Total number
1820 309 96 405
1885 549 109 658
1905 508 65 573
1910 448 76 524
1933 794
1939 784
2011 258

District of Pülz (1929–1935)

The district of Pülz in the succession of the district of Rehstall existed between 1929 and 1945 with four places:

German name Polish name
Pastern Pasterzewo
Pülz Pilec
Mirror Śpigiel
Riddles Widryny

church

A church used to belong to the village of Pülz. until 1945, however, the place was parish in the Protestant church Bäslack in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Heiligelinde in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Pilec belongs on the Protestant side to the parish Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and on the Catholic side to the parish Święta Lipka in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

A side road leads through Pilec, which joins the provincial road 594 in the north after about five kilometers south of Święta Lipka . To the south it opens road to about nine kilometers north of Mrągowo (Sensburg) in the provincial road 591 , the former German Reich Straße 141 .

There is no connection to rail traffic .

The geographically closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is about 110 kilometers northwest, on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Walesa Airport in Gdansk, about 180 kilometers to the west .

Personalities

Native of the place

  • Erich Balla (born March 15, 1885 in Pülz), German officer, major general († 1943)

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 216 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 925
  2. ↑ Pilec - Pülz at ostpreussen.net
  3. ↑ a b c Pülz (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, District Rehstall / Pülz
  5. ^ Wieś Pilec w liczbach
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 472