Pogorzel Mała

Pogorzel Mała
	Pogorzel Mała
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '6 "  N , 22 ° 7' 43"  E
Residents :	30 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Drygały / ext. 667 → Pogorzel Mała
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Pogorzel Wielka
Next international airport :	Danzig

Pogorzel Mała ( German  Klein Pogorzellen , 1930 to 1945 Brandau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality of Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Pogorzel Mała is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 23 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village, which consists of several small courtyards and farmsteads and was called Klein Pogorschellen after 1579 and Klein Pogorzellen after 1898 , was founded in 1484 by the Teutonic Knight Order as a freehold property under Magdeburg law .

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 he was incorporated into the district of Drygallen (from 1938 "District of Drigelsdorf").

Klein Pogorzellen had a total of 80 inhabitants in 1910.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Klein Pogorzellen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Klein Pogorzellen, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On July 28, 1930, the name Klein Pogorzellen was changed to “Brandau”. The population totaled 103 in 1933 and 98 in 1939.

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Brandau was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name "Pogorzel Mała". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria . The number of inhabitants in 2011 was 30.

Religions

Klein Pogorzellen was parish in the Protestant Church of Drygallen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

The evangelical residents of Pogorzel Małas are now part of the parish in the town of Biała Piska, a branch of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Pogorzel Mała belongs to the parish Drygały with the branch church in Pogorzel Wielka (Brennen , until 1907 Groß Pogorzellen) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Pogorzel Mała is located west of Voivodship Road 667 and can be reached directly from Drygały (Drygallen , 1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf) or Pogorzel Wielka (Brennen , until 1907 Groß Pogorzellen) . Pogorzel Wielka is the nearest train station, it is on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 946
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Brandau
3. ↑ ^{a b} Klein Pogorzellen / Brandau in family research Sczuka
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Drigelsdorf district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
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. 75
7. ^ 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). 
8. ↑ Sołectwá Gminy Biała Piska
9. ^ Wieś Pogorzel Mała w liczbach
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491