Rasząg

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Rasząg
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Rasząg (Poland)
Rasząg
Rasząg
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyński
Gmina : Biskupiec
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 20 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '34 "  N , 20 ° 54' 31"  E
Height : approx. 160 m npm
Residents : 379 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-300
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Danzig



Evangelical stone church in Rasząg

Rasząg ( German  Raschung ) is a village and Sołectwo in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to Gmina Biskupiec in the Olsztyński powiat in north-eastern Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Rasząg is located in the west of the Masurian Lake District , which belongs to the Baltic ridge . To the west of the village is the Rasząg inland lake with an area of ​​30.5 hectares and further northwest of the Dadaj lake with an area of ​​1002 hectares.

The distance to Barczewo is 19, to Biskupiec nine, to Mrągowo 34, to Pasym 22 and to Reszel 37 kilometers.

geology

The landscape was shaped by the ice sheet and is a postglacial, hilly, wooded ground moraine with numerous channel lakes and rivers. Numerous lakes, rivers, as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the area.

history

Originally the Gau Barten of the Prussians was here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Warmia was subordinated to the Crown of Poland as an autonomous duchy of Warmia . In 1569, the bishop of Warmia, Stanislaus Hosius , gave his brother Jan Hozjusz the hand-held festival according to Magdeburg law for 60 hooves with the obligation to perform knight service.

With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

After the Prussian administrative reforms Raschung belonged since 1815 to the county Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg and then from 1905 to 1945 in the administrative district of Olsztyn . In May 1874 the administrative district of Raschung was formed with the rural communities Pauling, Raschung, Rydbach, Zabrodzin and the estate districts of Groß Parleese, Kattreinen, Lipowo , Nassen, Raschung (with Vorwerk Josephshof) and Schönbruch. Raschung belonged to the registry office Raschung from 1874 to 1884 , from 1885 to 1905 to the registry office Wengoyen and from 1905 to 1945 to the registry office Bischofsburg Land.

In the referendum on July 11, 1920, 153 votes were cast for East Prussia and 98 for Poland .

After January 20, 1945, Raschung was captured by the Red Army . After the end of the war , the village came to the People's Republic of Poland and is called Rasząg . It was first in the powiat reszelski , from 1959 to 1972 in the powiat biskupiecki and since 1972 in the powiat Olsztyński .

Population development

  • 1785: 030 fireplaces
  • 1820: 026 fireplaces, 205 souls
  • 1857: 421
  • 1933: 557
  • 1939: 605
  • 1988: 378
  • 2009: 409 (Rasząg with Józefowo)
  • 2011: 379

Religions

The village belonged to Catholic and Protestant parishes in Bischofsburg. After the First World War , construction began in July 1914 on the fieldstone Protestant church .

Personalities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku. (XLSX) March 31, 2011 (Polish). Retrieved May 28, 2017
  2. ^ Josephshof (Raschung) at GenWiki
  3. Rolf Jehnke: District Raschung. Rolf Jehnke, Herdecke, October 18, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2014 .