Wądołek

Wądołek
	Wądołek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Geographic location :	53 ° 29 '  N , 21 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '29 "  N , 21 ° 47' 8"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Jeże / DK 63 → Wądołek
	Piskorzewo → Wądołek
	Rogatka → Wądołek
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wądołek [ vɔnˈdɔwɛk ] ( German  Wondollek , 1938 to 1945 Wondollen ) is a small town 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

Wądołek is located on the river Rybnica in the east-south of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ). The former state border between the German Empire and Poland , which today is marked by the border of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship to the Podlaskie Voivodeship , ran not even 1000 meters further south .

history

The former Wondollek is said to have been founded in 1749 as a casket settlement with a Köllmischen water mill. In 1895 a total of 115 inhabitants were registered in the Wondollek estate and in 1905 there were still 96 inhabitants. Later he belonged until 1945 along with the town Henriettental the rural community of King Village (to 1904 Piskorzewen , Polish Piskorzewo ) which in turn in the District Kullik (Polish Kulik ) was incorporated. On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Wondollek was foreign-sounding place names in "Wondollen" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed .

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Wondollen was also affected, and it was given the Polish form of name “Wądołek”. It now belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Pisz in the powiat Piski , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Orphaned grave sites in the former Wondollek / Wondollen Protestant cemetery

Until 1945 Wondollek resp. Wondollen in the Evangelical Church Gehsen ( Polish Jeże ) 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 .

Today Wądołek belongs to the Catholic parish Jeże in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wądołek is a little away from the traffic in the west of the Polish national road 63 and can be reached from there via Jeże (Gehsen) . Land routes also lead from the neighboring villages of Piskorzewo (Königsdorf , until 1904 Piskorzewen) and Rogatka - already located in the Podlaskie Voivodeship - into the village. There is no rail link.

See also

• Wondollek ironworks

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - Wondollek in family research Sczuka
2. ↑ Wondollek / Wondollen at GenWiki  ( 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.  
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, pp. 118/119.
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kullik District
5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491