Prusowy Borek

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Prusowy Borek
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Prusowy Borek (Poland)
Prusowy Borek
Prusowy Borek
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '11 "  N , 21 ° 4' 11"  E
Residents : 145 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Szczytno / DK 53 - Rudka ↔ Wały - Żytkowizna - Lipowiec
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Prusowy Borek ( German  Prussowborrek , 1932 to 1945 Preußenwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Prusowy Borek is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

The small village called Prussowborek after 1820 was founded in 1803. At that time there were nine settlers who were given their previous “bushel places ” in the Korpeller Forest “to vomit ”.

From 1874 to 1945, the place to belong District Wawrochen ( Polish Wawrochy ), which - in 1938 renamed "District German Heide" - the district Szczytno in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Prussowborrek had 184 inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Prussowborek belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Prussowborek, 133 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland had one vote.

On December 1, 1932 Prussowborrek was renamed "Preußenwalde". The population was 193 in 1933 and 180 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Prusowy Borek”. With the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) it is now a village in the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Prusowy Borek had 145 inhabitants.

church

Prussowborrek resp. Until 1945, Preußenwalde was incorporated into the Protestant Church of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and into the Roman Catholic parish church of Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Even today, Prusowy Borek has an ecclesiastical relationship with the district town: with the Protestant parish of Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and with the Roman Catholic Church there, which is now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Prusowy Borek is located on a side road that leads from the Polish state road 53 (formerly German Reichsstraße 134 ) near Szczytno in a southerly direction to Lipowiec ( Lipowitz , 1933 to 1945 Lindenort ). There is no train connection.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Prusowy Borek w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1035
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Preußenwalde
  4. ↑ Prussowborrek / Prussia forest near the Kreisgemeinschaft Ortelsburg
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Wawrafen / Deutschheide district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ 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. 97
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496