Pleśno (Bisztynek)

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Pleśno
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Pleśno (Poland)
Pleśno
Pleśno
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Bartoszyce
Gmina : Bisztynek
Geographic location : 54 ° 7 '  N , 21 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '40 "  N , 21 ° 3' 28"  E
Residents : 35 (2011)
Postal code : 11-230
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NBA
Economy and Transport
Street : Kowalewo Duże / ext . 592 - Łabławki - GrzędaReszel / ext . 594
Pleśnik → Pleśno
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Pleśno ( German  Pllocken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Bisztynek ( town and country municipality Bischofstein ) in the powiat Bartoszycki (district Bartenstein ).

Geographical location

Pleśno is located on the east bank of the Zaine ( Polish Sajna ) in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers northwest of the city of Reszel ( German  Rößel ) and 21 kilometers southeast of the district town of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein ).

history

The village, called Plössen after 1912 , was founded as Plesno in 1336. In 1785 Plehlen was a "royal village" with 41 fire places. In the 19th century, the place Plosenhof ( Polish Pleśnik ) was incorporated as a residential area . From 1874 to 1945 Plössen was part of the administrative district storm Hübel (Polish: Grzęda ) of the circle Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. 240 inhabitants voted in Ploise to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In 1945, as a result of the war with the whole of southern East Prussia , Ploel came to Poland and received the Polish form of the name “Pleśno”. Today it is part of the municipality of Bisztynek (Bischofstein) in the powiat Bartoszycki ( Bartenstein district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1820 295
1885 344
1905 298
1910 300
1933 320
1939 352
2011 35

church

Before 1945, Pllocken was parish in the Protestant Church of Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church in Sturmhübel (Polish: Grzęda ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Pleśno still belongs to Grzęda, which is now in the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, the inhabitants orientate themselves towards Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , a branch parish of the parish Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Pleśno is on a side road that connects the two provincial roads 592 and 594 . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 930
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Plösen
  3. a b c Plösen (Rößel district) at GenWiki
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Sturmhübel district
  5. Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 109
  6. Wieś Plesno w liczbach
  7. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490