Szczechy Wielkie

Szczechy Wielkie
	Szczechy Wielkie
	Szczechy Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Pisz
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 ' N , 21 ° 49' E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '35 " N , 21 ° 48' 47" E
Residents :	61 (2011)
Postal code :	12-200
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo - Giżycko - Orzysz ↔ Pisz - Kolno - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
	( Szeroki Ostrów -) Zdory → Szczechy Wielkie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Szczechy Wielkie ( German Groß Zechen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city and rural community Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Szczechy Wielkie is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German Johannisburg ).

history

The small village, which was already settled as a cinema and was called Kühnort around 1538 , Schachen after 1538 , Sczechen around 1540 , Schechen after 1540 and Keche ahn Kinortt around 1579 , was founded in 1538 as a free village with ten Hufen according to 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 it was incorporated into the Sdorren District (from 1938 "Dorren District").

The population of Groß Zechens was 199 in 1910. It decreased to 158 by 1933 and was 148 in 1939.

In 1945 large mines came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Szczechy Wielkie". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) in the association of the city and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs. In 2011 Szczechy Wielkie had 61 inhabitants.

Religions

Entrance to the former Protestant cemetery of Groß Zechen in today's Szczechy Wielkie

Until 1945 Groß Zechen was parish in the Protestant church Adlig Kessel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Szczechy Wielkie belongs to the parish Kociołek Szlachecki in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orient themselves towards the parish in the district town of Pisz, which belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Groß Zechen only became a school location after 1888.

traffic

Szczechy Wielkie is conveniently located on the Polish state road 63 , which connects the Polish-Russian state border with the Polish-Belarusian state border and runs through four voivodships . There is also a connection to the island of Szeroki Ostrów (Spirdingswerder) via the neighboring town of Zdory (Sdorren , 1938 to 1945 Dorren) .

Until 1945 Trzonki (Trzonken , 1938 to 1945 Mövenau) was the next train station. It was located on the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , which was decommissioned and dismantled as a result of the war.

Web links

Commons : Szczechy Wielkie - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1227
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Groß Zechen
↑ ^a ^b ^c large collieries in family research Sczuka
↑ Rolf Jehke, District Dorren
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Ministerial order of November 12, 1946 (MP z 1946 r. No. 142, poz. 262)
↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
↑ Szczechy Wielkie in Polska w liczbach
↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1227

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Groß Zechen

[Sczuka-3] rge collieries in family research Sczuka

[4] Rolf Jehke, District Dorren

[5] Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg

[6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] Ministerial order of November 12, 1946 (MP z 1946 r. No. 142, poz. 262)

[8] Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz

[9] Szczechy Wielkie in Polska w liczbach

[10] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490