Uścianek (Janowo)

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Uścianek
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Uścianek (Poland)
Uścianek
Uścianek
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Nidzica
Gmina : Janowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 25 '  N , 20 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '14 "  N , 20 ° 41' 3"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 13-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NNI
Economy and Transport
Street : Zimna Woda / ext. 545 - Wały → Uścianek
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Uścianek ( German  Uszannek , 1938 to 1945 Trotha ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).

Geographical location

Uścianek is located in the southwestern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers northeast of the district town of Nidzica ( German  Neidenburg ).

history

The on state forest Kaltenborn ( Polish Zimna Woda ) belonging, after 1820 Uszczeinek , after 1871 Ucszannek , after 1912 Ußanek and until 1938 Uszannek called forester was on 28 April 1874 as Forstgutsbezirk the official residence of the newly built office district Uszannek that the county Neidenburg in Government District Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Only the forest estate district Uszannek formed from the Hartigswalde manor district ( Dłużek in Polish ) was incorporated into the administrative district. This district existed for only 22 years when it was dissolved on March 6, 1896 and joined the newly formed district of Kaltenborn with the also liquidated Omulefofen (Polish: Kot ) district . Here it - with its six inhabitants in 1905 - became part of the estate district of Kaltenborn, Forst, and in 1929 a place to live within the municipality of Ulleschen (Polish : Ulesie ) in the district of Roggen .

The place, which was renamed “Trotha” on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938 for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names, was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia . He received the Polish name form "Uścianek" and is now a hamlet (Polish Osada ) within the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki , until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Uszannek / Trotha was parish in the Protestant Church Malga (Polish Małga ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Neidenburg ( Nidzica ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Uścianek belongs on the Catholic side to the church in Zimna Woda (Kaltenborn) in the Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the parish in Nidzica with the branch church in Róg in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Uścianek is located at the end of a side road that branches off from the provincial road 545 at Zimna Woda and leads to here via Wały (Wallendorf) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Historical recordings and a. from Uszannek / Trotha:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1316 (Polish)
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Trotha
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Kaltenborn District
  4. ↑ Uszannek / Trotha at GenWiki
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Roggen