Skarżyn (Biała Piska)

Skarżyn
	Skarżyn
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 37 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '44 "  N , 22 ° 13' 22"  E
Residents :	140 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	1680N: Prostki / DK 65 - Sokółki - Wojtele ↔ Kożuchy Małe (- Biała Piska / DK 58 )
	1867N: Drygały / DW 667 - Dmusy → Skarżyn
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Skarżyn (until 2005: Skarzyn , German  Skarzinnen , 1938 to 1945 Richtenberg (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski (District of Johannisburg ) belongs.

Geographical location

Skarżyn is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 28 kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The 1538 Scarzinnen to 1540 Skarzino after 1818 Skardszinnen , after 1871 Skarzynnen and until 1938 Skarzinnen village called was in 1452 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut 45 hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established.

In 1874 the village was incorporated into the district of Groß Rogalen (in Polish: Rogale Wielkie ), but before 1908 it was part of the district of Belzonzen (renamed in "District of Großdorf (Ostpr.)" In 1938), which belonged to the district of Johannisburg .

411 inhabitants were registered in Skarzinnen in 1910, in 1933 there were already 443.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Skarzinnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Skarzinnen, 280 people voted to stay with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On June 3, 1938 Skarzinnen was for political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names in "Richtenberg (Ostpr.)" Renamed . The population was 380 in 1939.

In 1945 as a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia came to Poland . This also affected Richtenberg, which at that time received the Polish name form "Skarzyn" and from 2005 "Skarżyn". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus 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 Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated. The population of Skarżyn in 2011 was 140.

Religions

Church building

→ Main article : Church of Christ the King (Skarżyn)

The once Protestant church in Skarzinnen was built between 1927 and 1929 and was consecrated on November 15, 1929. It is a simple field stone building with a wooden tower attached to the gable. It has been used as a Roman Catholic church since 1945 and is called " Christ the King 's Church " (in Polish: Kościół Chrystusa Króla ).

Parish

Evangelical

In Skarzinnen in 1902 and in the parish of some places from the churches of Bialla and Groß Rosinsko, an own Protestant parish was founded. In 1925 the Skarzinnen parish had 2,000 parishioners. It was incorporated into the church district Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union .

Flight and expulsion of the local population brought church life to a standstill in 1945. Today only a few Protestant residents live here. You stick to the parish in Biała Piska , a branch parish of the Pisz parish in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 only very few Catholics lived in the area around Skarzinnen resp. Richtenberg. They were parish in the Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the deanery Masuria II (with seat in Johannisburg) in the diocese of Warmia .

After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled in Skarżyn, almost all of them of the Catholic denomination. They took over the previously Protestant church as a parish church , which from 1958 also had its own parish. She is included in the deanery Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The affiliate church in Świdry (Schwiddern) belongs to it .

school

Skarzinnen became a school site in 1889.

traffic

Skarżyn is located at the intersection of two side streets that connect the place with Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) , Prostki (Prostken) and Drygały (Drygallen , 1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf) and the national roads 58 and 65 as well as the voivodship road 667 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1154
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Richtenberg (Ostpr.)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Skarzinnen / Richtenberg in family research Sczuka
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Groß Rogalen and Groß Rosinsko / Großrosen districts
5. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Belzonzen / Großdorf (Ostpr.)
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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. 77
9. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
10. ^ Wieś Skarżyn w liczbach
11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 120
12. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492
13. ↑ Parish Skarżyn in the diocese of Ełk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.