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Uściany Stare (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '34 "  N , 21 ° 41' 19"  E
Residents : 156 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Wielki Las → Uściany Stare
Anuszewo → Uściany Stare
Zdunowo / Zimna → Uściany Stare
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Uściany Stare ( German  Alt Uszanny , 1905 to 1945 Grünheide , 1946 to 2014 Stare Uściany ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural community Johannisburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Uściany Stare is located in the eastern south of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers southwest of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village, known as Alt Uszanny until 1905 , was founded in 1758 as a leasehold village . The village district included a forester's house about a kilometer northeast of the village.

The rural community Alt Uszanny was incorporated into the Kullik district (in Polish: Kulik ) from 1874 to 1945 . On April 21, 1905, Alt Uszanny was renamed "Grünheide" (with the forester's house of the same name).

180 inhabitants were registered in Alt Uszanny in 1910. Their number rose to 187 by 1933 and was 179 in 1939.

In 1945 the village was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Stare Uściany". As of January 1, 2015, the place has been renamed "Uściany Stare". The village is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the city and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 the place had 156 inhabitants.

church

Old Uszanny resp. Grünheide was parish up until 1945 in the Protestant Church of Turoseeling in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Uściany Stare belongs on the Catholic side to the Turośl parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Pisz, which is assigned to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Alt Uszanny was a school location from 1854.

traffic

Uściany Stare can be reached on side streets from Wielki Las (Wielgilasz , 1905 to 1945 Tannenheim) , Anuszewo (Annussewen , 1938 to 1945 Brennerheim) and Zdunowo (Sdunowen , 1938 to 1945 Sadunen) or Zimna (Zymna , 1932 to 1945 Kaltenfließ) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1197
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Grünheide
  3. ↑ a b c Alt Uszanny - Grünheide at Family Research Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kullik District
  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). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  8. ↑ Uściany Stare at Polska w liczbach
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 492