Szeroki Ostrów

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Szeroki Ostrów
View from Szeroki Ostrów (Spirdingswerder) to Jezioro Śniardwy (Spirdingsee)
View from Szeroki Ostrów (Spirdingswerder) to Jezioro Śniardwy (Spirdingsee)
Waters Jezioro Śniardwy
Geographical location 53 ° 44 ′  N , 21 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′  N , 21 ° 45 ′  E
Szeroki Ostrów (Warmia-Masuria)
Szeroki Ostrów
surface 70 hectaresdep1
Residents uninhabited

Szeroki Ostrów ( German  Spirdingswerder ) is a no longer inhabited island in the Jezioro Śniardwy (Spirdingsee) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Szeroki Ostrów is located in the southern Spirdingsee , which belongs to the Masurian Lake District on the edge of the Mazurski Park Krajobrazowy (Masurian Landscape Park ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The next larger city is Pisz (Johannisburg) and lies eleven kilometers to the south-east.

history

The island, which covers an area of ​​70 hectares, was inhabited before 1945. The place was Spirdingswerder 1566 as a free village of Magdeburg Law established. At that time, a few small farms were built on the island that no longer exist today.

Spirdingswerder 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”).

In 1910, 46 residents were registered in Spirdingswerder. Their number decreased to 35 by 1933 and was 30 in 1939.

Since 1945 in the aftermath of the war, southern East Prussia was surrendered to Poland , the island has been in the Polish state and was given the name "Szeroki Ostrów". It is no longer inhabited and was up for sale in 2009.

Religions

Until 1945 Spirdingswerder 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 in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

traffic

The island of Szeroki Ostrów can be reached via a land and short dike path from the mainland from Zdory (Sdorren , 1938 to 1945 Dorren) .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Spirdingswerder
  2. Spirdingswerder in Family Research Sczuka
  3. Rolf Jehke, District Dorren
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490