Rzęśniki

Rzęśniki
	Rzęśniki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Orzysz
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 21 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '35 "  N , 21 ° 59' 2"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-250
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	1702N: DK 63 ↔ Odoje - Czarne
Rail route :	Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service) Railway station: Odoje
Next international airport :	Danzig

Rzęśniki ( German  Rzesniken , 1938 to 1945 Forsthaus Nickelsberg ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( town and country municipality Arys ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Rzęśniki is located southeast of the Hasensee ( Polish Jezioro Rząśniki, also: Jezioro Rzęśniki ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 27 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Today's small hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) has always included the area of ​​a forestry , the date of which is not known. As an independent Gutsbezirk the place in 1874 came to the newly established District Mykossen ( Polish Mikosze ), which - in 1938 in "District Arens Walde" renamed - to circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Rzesniken had twelve inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Rzesniken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Rzesniken, 20 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On September 30, 1928, the Rzesniken manor district gave up its independence and was incorporated into the neighboring town of Odoyen (1938 to 1945 Nickelsberg , Odoje in Polish ). On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Rzesniken in "forester Nickel Mountain" was renamed .

As a result of the war, the place was transferred to Poland in 1945 with the entire southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Rzęśniki". Today he is part of the urban and rural community of Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 in the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then in the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Rzesniken or Försterei Nickelsberg was parish up to 1945 in the Protestant church Arys in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Rzęśniki belongs to the Catholic parish in Orzysz in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the church in the district town of Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Rzęśniki is located east of the Polish state road 63 (former German Reichsstrasse 131 ) and can be reached from here on the side road 1702N to Czarne (Czarnen , 1938 to 1945 Herzogsdorf) . The next train station is Odoje (Odoyen , 1938 to 1945 Nickelsberg) on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1129
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Nickelsberg (Försterei)
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Mykossen / Arens Walde
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
5. ↑ 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. 77
6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491