Pożegi

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Pożegi (Submerged Place) (Poland)
Pożegi (submerged place)
Pożegi ( submerged
place)
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '32 "  N , 21 ° 54' 50"  E
Residents : 0



Pożegi ( German  Poseggen ) was a village in East Prussia in what is now the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The local office is located in the area of ​​the current Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla (1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg )) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

The now no longer recognizable locality of Pożegi is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, twelve kilometers south-east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ). From the villages of Bogumiły (Bogumillen , 1938 to 1945 Brödau) , Turowo (Turowen , 1938 to 1945 Turau) and Liski (Lisken) country roads lead to the former village.

history

In 1448 the small at that time was Possega called village as Freigut ten hooves of Magdeburg Law rights by the Teutonic Knights was founded. The village consisted of large and small farms and, after 1471 Post Hegen after 1579 Poschegen after 1785 Poss Eggen , after 1898 Posegen and until 1945 Poseggen called.

From 1874 to 1945 Poseggen was in the District Symken ( Polish Szymki ) integrated, the - the - in "District Simken" renamed in 1938 District Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

72 inhabitants were registered in Poseggen in 1910. Their number had dropped to 70 by 1933 and was only 57 in 1939.

As the southern East Prussia in consequence of the war in 1945 in Poland was transferred to Poseggen was also affected. The place was given the Polish form of name "Pożegi", but was not mentioned in the following years and is considered abandoned.

Barrows

In Poseggen on the Feldmark was found three burial mounds , one of which destroyed two and one were unaffected. Two bronze arm spirals and a bronze arm ring, as well as some remains of a human skull, have been saved from them. Through these grave goods, the graves can be ascribed to the 3rd period of the Bronze Age (1800 to 1000 BC). Investigations have shown that the graves were stone cone graves. The find was significant insofar as no barrows with skeletal burials from the older Bronze Age have been found in this area of ​​East Prussia.

church

Until 1945 Poseggen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kumilsko (1938 to 1945 Morgen , Polish Kumielsk ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . On the Catholic side , the village belonged to the parish church in Johannisburg in what was then the diocese of Warmia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Poseggen
  2. ↑ a b Poseggen in family research Sczuka
  3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Simken
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ Bogumiły - Bogumillen / Brödau at ostpreussen.net
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491