Piwnice Wielkie

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Piwnice Wielkie
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Piwnice Wielkie (Poland)
Piwnice Wielkie
Piwnice Wielkie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Wielbark
Geographic location : 53 ° 21 '  N , 20 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '55 "  N , 20 ° 54' 4"  E
Residents : 163 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-160
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 57 : Bartoszyce - Biskupiec - Szczytno - Wielbark ↔ Chorzele - Kleszewo (- Pułtusk )
Ścięciel → Piwnice Wielkie
Wyżegi → Piwnice Wielkie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Olsztyn-Mazury
Danzig



Piwnice Wielkie (German Groß Piwnitz ; 1938 to 1945 Großalbrechtsort ) is a village in the Gmina Wielbark (urban and rural municipality Willenberg ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The former Groß Piwnitz is located in the Masurian lake area on the Baltic ridge . Characteristic for the landscape in this area are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests. The distance to Wielbark ( German  Willenberg ) is six kilometers and to Szczytno (Ortelsburg) 26 kilometers.

history

Local history

Originally this region was inhabited by the pagan Prussians . Since 1243 the area belonged to the Teutonic Order State . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the region became part of the Duchy of Prussia . The place was founded by Duke Albrecht Friedrich with the charter of April 4, 1571 and in 1701 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia .

United Piwnitz belonged to the 1818-1945 district Szczytno in the Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) to. In July 1874, here is District United Piwnitz been formed.

On December 1, 1910, the rural community Groß Piwnitz had 435 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to the Groß Piwnitz, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Groß Piwnitz, 325 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland received one vote.

In 1933 there were 426 inhabitants registered in Groß Piwnitz.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938, Groß Piwnitz was Germanized into "Großalbrechtsort" in memory of Duke Albrecht Friedrich and, for political and ideological reasons, the defense against foreign-sounding place names . The population was still 387 in 1939.

At the end of January 1945 Großalbrechtsort was taken by the Red Army and placed under the Soviet command. After the end of the war, the village came to Poland and on November 12, 1946 received the Polish form of the name "Piwnice Wielkie". Today the village is a locality and seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) of Gmina Wielbark in the Powiat Szczycieński , from 1975 to 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . The population in 2011 was 163.

District of Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort (1874–1945)

The district of Groß Piwnitz was initially made up of eight villages. In the end there were seven more in the Großalbrechtsort district:

German name Changed name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Remarks
Baranowen New flow Baranowo
Czenczel (from 1928 :)
Rodefeld		 Ścięciel
Flammberg
(until 1904 Opalenietz)		 Opaleniec
Great Piwnitz Großalbrechtsort Piwnice Wielkie
Montwitz Mącice
Rohrdorf
(until 1877 Trzianken)		 Trzcianka
Wolka Georgsheide Wólka Wielbarska 1936 incorporated into Rohrdorf
Wyseggen Grasslands Wyżegi

On January 1, 1945, the places Flammberg, Großalbrechtsort, Grünlanden, Montwitz, Neufluss, Rodefeld and Rohrdorf formed the district of Großalbrechtsort.

church

Ecclesiastical was Groß Piwnitz resp. Großalbrechtsort oriented towards the city of Willenberg until 1945: to the Protestant Church of Willenberg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Roman Catholic parish church there in the diocese of Warmia .

The reference to the city now called Wielbark and now located in the Archdiocese of Warmia has remained for the Catholic residents of Piwnice Wielkie. The Protestant church members now belong to the parish in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945 there was a two-class elementary school in Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort.

traffic

Piwnice Wielkie is located on the busy Mazurian-Mazovian north-south connection of the state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) which today leads from Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) to the gates of the town of Pułtusk . Smaller side streets connect the place with neighboring villages. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Personalities

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b GUS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 929
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Großalbrechtsort
  4. ↑ a b c Rolf Jehke: District of Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort. October 18, 2004, accessed December 6, 2014 .
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  6. ↑ 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. 94
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  9. ↑ Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort near the Ortelsburg district community